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Fair Em (Quarto 1, 1593)
The Millers daughter
1181Would haue you likewise troubled with a blinde wife,
1182Hauing the benefite of your eyes,
1183But neither follow him so much in follie,
1184But loue one, in whome you may better delight.
1186By graunting mee her loue:
1187I am a Gentleman of king Williams Court,
1188And no meane man in king Williams fauour.
1191Yours, as apparant in limiting your loue so vnorderly,
1192For which you rashly endure reprochement:
1193Mine, as open and euident,
1194When being shut from the vanities of this world,
1195you would haue me as an open gazing stock to all the world:
1196For lust, not loue leades you into this error:
1197But from the one I will keepe me as well as I can,
1198And yeeld the other to none but to my father,
1199As I am bound by duetie.
1203Let thy father speake what credibly he hath heard.
1207And doest thou now thus requite it?
1209Which hath made me marueile at his long absence.
1211were concerning Manuile?
1216To a mans daughter of no little wealth.
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