An Humorous Day's Mirth (Quarto 1, 1599)

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 0.13A pleasant Comedie entituled
 
 0.14An humorous dayes mirth.
 
 
 1Enter the count Laberuele in his shirt and night gowne, with
 2 two iewells in his hand.
 
 3Laberuele.
 4YEt hath the morning sprinckled throwt the clowdes,
 5But halfe her tincture and the soyle of night stickes stil
 6vpon the bosome of the ayre: yet sleepe doth rest my
 7loue for Natures debt, and through her windowe, and this
 8dim twee-light, her maide, nor any waking I can see. This
 9is the holy Greene my wifes close walke, to which not a-
 10ny but her selfe alone hath any key, onelye that I haue
 11clapt her key in waxe, and made this counterfeite, to the
 12which I steale accesse, to work this rare & politike deuice:
 13Faire is my wife and yong and delicate, although too re-
 14ligious in the purest sorte, but pure religion being but
 15mental stuffe and sence indeed, al for it selfe, is to be doub-
 16ted, that when an obiect comes fit to her humour she wil
 17intercept religious letters sent vnto her minde, and yeelde
 18vnto the motion of her bloud, heere haue I brought then
 19two rich agots for her, grauen with two poses of mine own
 20deuising, for Poets Ile not trust, nor friends, nor any: shee
 21longs to haue a child, which yet alas I cannot get, Yet long
 22as much as she, and not to make her desperate, thus I write
 23in this faire iewell though it simple be, yet tis mine owne
 24that meaneth well in nought, tis spare, not of children, loue
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