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The Passionate Pilgrime.
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Even thus (qouth she) the warlike god unlac't me,
As if the boy should use like loving charmes:
Even thus (quoth she) he seized on my lips,
And with her lips on his did act the seizure:
And as she fetched breath, away he skips,
And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure.
Ah, that I had my Lady at this bay:
To kisse and clip me till I run away.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together,
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care,
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather,
Youth like summer brave, Age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, Ages breath is short,
Youth is nimble, Age is lame,
Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold,
Youth is wild, and Age is tame.
Age I do abhor thee, Youth I do adore thee,
O my love, my love is young.
Age I do defie thee. Oh sweet Shepheard hie thee;
For methinks thou stays too long.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful Good,
A shining glosse, that vadeth sodainly,
A flower that dies, when first it gins to bud,
A brittle glasse, thats broken presently.
A doubtful good, a glosse, a glasse, a flower,
Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an houre.

And