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  • Title: The Passionate Pilgrim (Octavo, 1599)
  • Editor: Hardy M. Cook
  • ISBN: 978-1-55058-411-0

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    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Hardy M. Cook
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    The Passionate Pilgrim (Octavo, 1599)


    What though her frowning browes be bent
    295Her cloudy lookes will calme yer night,
    And then too late she will repent,
    That thus dissembled her delight.
    And twice desire yer it be day,
    That which with scorne she put away.

    300What though she striue to try her strength,
    And ban and braule, and say the nay:
    Her feeble force will yeeld at length,
    When craft hath taught her thus to say:
    Had women beene so strong as men
    305 In faith you had not had it then.