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L Oue is my sinne,and thy deare vertue hate, Hate of my sinne,grounded on sinfull louing,

O but with mine, compare thou thine owne state, And thou shalt finde it merrits not reproouing, Or if it do , not from those lips of thine, That haue prophan'd their scarlet ornaments, And seald false bonds of loue as oft as mine, Robd others beds reuenues of their rents. Be it lawfull I loue thee as thou lou'st those, Whome thine eyes wooe as mine importune thee, Roote pittie in thy heart that when it growes, Thy pitty may deserue to pittied bee.    If thou doost seeke to haue what thou doost hide,    By selfe example mai'st thou be denide. 143

L Oe as a carefull huswife runnes to catch, One of her fethered creatures broake away,

Sets downe her babe and makes all swift dispatch In pursuit of the thing she would haue stay: Whilst her neglected child holds her in chace, Cries to catch her whose busie care is bent, To follow that which flies before her face: Not prizing her poore infants discontent; So runst thou after that which flies from thee, Whilst I thy babe chace thee a farre behind, But if thou catch thy hope turne back to me: And play the mothers part kisse me,be kind.    So will I pray that thou maist haue thy Will,.BR>    If thou turne back and my loude crying still. 144

T Wo loues I haue of comfort and dispaire, Which like two spirits do sugiest me still,

The better angell is a man right faire: The worser spirit a woman collour'd il. To win me soone to hell my femall euill,

Tempteth