Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

            A Woman will haue her will.
        
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                Laur. Not I.
    
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                Mari. Fie upon it.
    
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                Math. Hang vp Philosophy, Ile none of it.
    
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                Pisar. A Tutor said I, a Tutor for the Diuell.
    
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                Anth. No Gentlewomen, Anthony hath learn'd
    
            70To read a Lector of more plea
                sing worth.
    
            71Marina, read these lines, young Haruie sent them,
    
            72There euery line repugnes Philosophy:
    
            73Then loue him, for he hates the thing thou hates.
    
            74
            Laurentia, this is thine from Ferdinande:
    
            75Thinke euery golden circle that thou see
                st,
    
            76The rich vnualued circle of his worthe.
    
            77
            Mathea, with these Gloues thy Ned salutes thee;
    
            78As often as these, hide these from the Sunne,
    
            79And Wanton 
                steales a ki
                s
                s
            e from thy faire hand,
    
            80Presents his seruiceable true harts zeale,
    
            81Which waites vpon the censure of thy doome:
    
            82What though their Lands be morgag'd to your Father;
    
            83Yet may your Dowries redeeme that debt:
    
            84Thinke they are Gentlemen, and thinke they loue;
    
            85And be that thought, their true loues aduocate.
    
            86Say you 
                should wed for Wealth; for to that scope
    
            87Your Fathers greedy dispo
                sition tendes,
    
            88The world would say, that you were had for Wealth,
    
            89And so faire Beawties honour quite distinct:
    
            90A ma
                s
                s
            e of Wealth being powrde vpon another,
    
            91Little augments the 
                shew, although the summe;
    
            92But beeing lightly scattred by it selfe,
    
            93It doubles what it seem'd, although but one:
    
            94Euen so your selues, for wedded to the Rich,
    
            95His 
                stile was as it was, a Rich man 
                still:
    
            96But wedding these, to wed true Loue, is dutie:
    
            97You make them rich in Wealth, but more in Beawtie:
    
            98I need not plead that smile, that smile 
                shhewes hearts con-
            (sent;
        
            99That ki
                s
                s
            e shew'd loue, that on that gift was lent:
    
            100And la
                st thine Eyes, that teares of true joy sendes,
    
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