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Since I (as earft was fayde) do fo with humble chcare, 

 [olde downe my head (as who fliould fay, lo Ma7t 1 yeelde me here.) 



Why arte thou not content, (6 murdryng cruell minde) 

 hy felfe alone to hunte me fo, which arte my foe by kynde, 



But that thou mull: enftrud, with wordes in fkilfull writte, 



11 other men to hunte me eke ? O wicked wylie witte. 



Thou here haft fet to fliew, within this bufie booke, 



looking Glafic of leflbns lewde, wherein all Huntes may looke : 



And fo whyles world doth laft, they may be taught to bryng, 

 he harmelefle Hart vnto his bane, with many a wilye thing. 



Is it bycaufe thy minde, doth feeke thereby fome gaynes? 

 anft thou in death take fuche delight ? breedes pleafure fo in paynes ? 



Oh cruell, be content, to take in worth my teares, 

 /hiche growe to gumme, and fall from me : content thee with my heares, 



Content thee with my homes, which euery yeare I mew, 

 nee all thefe three make medicines, fome fickneffe to efchew. 



My teares congeald to gumme, by peeces from me fall, 

 nd thee preferue from Peftilence, in Pomander or Ball. 



Such wholefome teares fliedde I, when thou purfeweft me fo, 

 hou (not content) doeft feeke my death, and then thou getft no moe. 



My heare is medicine burnt, all venemous wormes to kill, 

 'he Snake hirfelfe will yeeld thereto, fuch was my makers will. 



My homes (whiche aye renew) as many medicines make 



s there be Troches on their Toppes, and all [Man) for thy fake. 



As firft they heale the head, from turning of the brayne, 



dramme thereof in powder drunke, doth quickly eafe the payne : 



They fkinne a kybed heele, they fret an angnayle off, 

 o thus I l"kippe from toppe to toe, yet neyther fcorne nor fkofFe. 



They comfort Fteuers faynte, and lingryng long difeafe, 

 iftilld when they be tender buddes, they fundry greeues appeafe: 



They mayfter and corredt, both humours, hote and colde, 

 I'hich ftriue to conquere bloud : and breede, difeafes manyfold. 



They bryng downe womens termes, and ftoppe them to, for neede, 



hey keepe the meane tweene both extreemes, and ferue bothe turnes in deede: 



They cleare the dimmie fight, they kill both webbe and pinne, 

 hey foone reftore the milt or fpleene, which putrifies within. 



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