Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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Two gentlemen attending on Duke William,
Mountney and Valingford, as I heard them named, Oft times resort to see and to be seen Walking the street fast by thy fathers door, Whose glauncing eyes up to the windows cast Gives testies of their Maisters amorous heart. This, Em, is noted and too much talked on, Some see it without mistrust of ill-- Others there are that, scorning, grin thereat, And saith, 'There goes the millers daughters wooers'. Ah me, whom chiefly and most of all it doth concern, To spend my time in grief and vex my soul, To think my love should be rewarded thus, And for thy sake abhor all womenkind! EM. May not a maid look upon a man Without suspitious judgement of the world? MANVILE. If sight do move offence, it is the better not to see. But thou didst more, unconstant as thou art, For with them thou hadst talk and conference. EM. May not a maid talk with a man without mistrust? MANVILE. Not with such men suspected amorous. |
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