Fair Em (Quarto 1, 1593)

of Manchester.
 428Oft times resort to see and to be seene,
 429Walking the streete fast by thy fathers dore,
 430Whose glauncing eyes vp to the windowes cast, 
 431Giues testies of their Maisters amorous hart. 
 432This Em is noted and too much talked on. 
 433Some see it without mistrust of ill. 
 434Others there are that scorning grynne thereat, 
 435And saith, there goes the millers daughters wooers.
 436Ah me, whome chiefely and most of all it doth concerne 
 437To spend my time in griefe and vexe my soule, 
 438To thinke my loue should be rewarded thus, 
 439And for thy sake abhore all women kind.
 440Em. May not a maide looke vpon a man 
 441Without suspitious iudgement of the world?
 442Manuile. If sight do moue offence, it is the better not to see. 
 443But thou didst more vnconstant as thou art, 
 444For with them thou hadst talke and conference.
 445Em. May not a maide talke with a man without mistrust?
 446Manuile. Not with such men suspected amorous.
 447Em. I grieue to see my Manuiles ielosie
 448Manuile. Ah Em, faithfull loue is full of ielosie, 
 449So did I loue thee true and faithfully, 
 450For which I am rewarded most vnthankfully.
 451Exit in a rage, Manet Em. 
 452 And so awaie? what in displeasure gone? 
 453And left me such a bitter sweete to gnawe vpon?
 454Ah Manuile, little wottest thou,
 455How neere this parting goeth to my heart.
 456Vncourteous loue whose followers reapes reward, 
 457Of hate, disdaine, reproach and infamie, 
 458The fruit frantike, bedlome ielozie.
 459Here enter Mountney to Em. 
 460But here comes one of these suspitious men: 
 461Witnes my God without desert of me: 
 462For onely Manuile honor I in harte: 
 463Nor shall vnkindnes cause me from him to starte.
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