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For cherries
plenty, and for corans
Enough for fifty, were there
more on's;
For elles of beere, flutes of canary,
That well did wash downe pasties-Mary;
For peason,
chickens, sawces high,
Pig, and the widdow-venson-pye;
With certaine promise (to your brother)
Of the
virginity of another,
Where it is thought I too may
peepe in
With knuckles far as any deepe in;
For
glasses, heads, hands, bellies full
Of wine, and
loyne right-worshipfull;
Whether all of, or more
behind--a
Thankes freest, freshest, faire Ellinda.
Thankes for my visit not disdaining,
Or at the least
thankes for your feigning;
For if your mercy doore
were lockt-well,
I should be justly soundly knockt-well;
Cause that in dogrell I did mutter
Not one rhime to
you from dam-Rotter.
Next beg I to present my
duty
To pregnant sister in prime beauty,
Whom well
I deeme (e're few months elder)
Will take out Hans
from pretty Kelder,
And to the sweetly fayre Mabella,
A match that vies with Arabella;
In each respect but
the misfortune,
Fortune, Fate, I thee importune.
Nor must I passe the lovely Alice,
Whose health
I'd quaffe in golden chalice;
But since that Fate
hath made me neuter,
I only can in beaker pewter:
But who'd forget, or yet left un-sung
The doughty
acts of George the yong-son?
Who yesterday to save
his sister
Had slaine the snake, had he not mist her:
But I shall leave him, 'till a nag on
He gets to
prosecute the dragon;
And then with helpe of sun and
taper,
Fill with his deeds twelve reames of paper,
That Amadis, Sir Guy, and Topaz
With his fleet
neigher shall keep no-pace.
But now to close all I
must switch-hard,
[Your] servant ever;
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