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 ��JOHN FLETCHER

220 Hear, ye Ladies

"EAR, ye ladies that despise

What the mighty Love has done; Fear examples and be wise: Fair Callisto was a nun; Leda, sailing on the sticam

To deceive the hopes of man, Love accounting but a dream, Doted on a silver swan, Danae, in a brazen tower, Where no love was, loved a shower.

Hear, ye ladies that arc coy,

What the mighty Love can do; Fear the fierceness of the boy.

The chabte Moon he makes to woo; Vesta, kindling holy fires,

Circled round about with spies, Never dreaming loose desires,

Doting at the altar dies;

Ilion, in a short hour, higher

He can build, and once more fire.

��GOD Ei

��221 God Lyaeus

Lyaeus, ever young, Ever honour'd, ever sung, Stain 'd with blood of lusty grapes, In a thousand lusty shapes Dance upon the mazer's brim, In the crimson liquor swim, 22 z mazer] a bowl of maple-wood.

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