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- Decreed as seemes to me,
That as the tablet and the stone,
- Both knitt together be
Even by a string, the tablet like 245
- To her, to me the stone,
So shall our love whill Atrope cutt
- The threed, be knitt in one.
Thus have I redd my dreme ye see
- With wise Apollos aide, 250
And if this be the verrie trueth
- That I herin have saide,
Then am I gladd of such a guesse,
- Bot if I be deceav'd,
And in the opening of a dreame 255
- Have ather dream'd or reav'd
Yett wellcume be a gladd deceate,
- For as into my sleepe,
My dreame deceaved[1] me, so my guesse,
- In gladnes doth me keepe. 260
Now may ye see o Titan mine,
- No distance far of place,
Nor other thoughts can out of me
- The thought of you deface,
In absence are ye present still 265
- And ever so in sight,
No wonder is, what Monarch may
- Resist a womans might.
[XVIII]
A SATIRE AGAINST WOEMEN[2]
- As falcons are by nature faire of flight
Of kinde as sparhalks far excells in speede As marlions[3] have in springing greatest might
