Louer's complaint (Quarto, 1609)
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THE LOVERS
¶Could scape the haile of his all hurting ayme,
¶Shewing faire Nature is both kinde and tame:
310And vaild in them did winne whom he would maime,
¶Thus meerely with the garment of a grace,
315The naked and concealed feind he couerd,
¶That th'vnexperient gaue the tempter place,
¶Which like a Cherubin aboue them houerd,
¶Aye me I fell, and yet do question make,
¶O that infected moysture of his eye,
¶O that forc'd thunder from his heart did flye,
325O all that borrowed motion seeming owed,
¶Would yet againe betray the fore-betrayed,
¶And new peruert a reconciled Maide.
FINIS._
