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 To a deceitful Woman: tell me Friends, Am I not sung and proverbd for a Fool In every street, do they not say, how well Are come upon him his deserts? yet why? Immeasurable strength they might behold In me, of wisdom nothing more then mean; This with the other should, at least, have paird, These two proportion'd ill drove me transverse.
 * Chor.Tax not divine disposal, wisest Men

Have err'd, and by bad Women been deceiv'd; And shall again, pretend they ne're so wise. Deject not so overmuch thy self, Who hast of sorrow thy full load besides; Yet truth to say, I oft have heard men wonder Why thou shouldst wed Philistian women rather Then of thine own Tribe fairer, or as fair, At least of thy own Nation, and as noble. Sam.The first I saw at Timna, and she pleas'd Mee, not my Parents, that I sought to wed, Rh