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The Bride by Samuel Rowlands
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And comming to the point why you would none:
Ciuilitie allowes a courteous cariage,
To such as proffer loue by way of marriage.

An affable behauiour may be vsed,
And kinde requitall answere kinde deseart,
And yet no honest man thereby abused,
With fained showes, as if he had the heart:
When there is purpose of no such intent
To gull him with his time and mony spent.

_Mall_.

Were I to giue maides counsell, they to take it,
And that they would consent to doe as I,
Who offered us his loue, we would forsake it,
And like _Dianes Nymphs_ would liue and die:
For I protest your louers should haue none,
But wiues and widdowes to put tricks vpon.

We would reuenge the crafty double dealing,
Thousands of harmelesse virgins doe endure,
By their deceitfull art of kinde-hart stealing,
Keeping our loues vnto our selues secure:
And credit to their vowes, should be no other,
But in at one eare, and goe out at t'other.

_Bride_.

This you would doe, and y'are in that minde now,
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