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Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601

"The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo"


169 _So fierce_, soe feirce; _is hir radiance_, in her radiaunce.
170 _fyrie stakes_, flyeing breath; _darts_, dartes; _euerie glance_,
every glaunce.
171 _enflame_, inflame; _icie limmes_, verry mappe.
172 _make_, cause; _his seignedrie to aswage_, him suddenly tasswage.
173 _To_, and; _upon her_, vppon those; _lamps_, lampes.
174 _his chiefest ioyes encamps_, his ioyes incampes.
175-6 Omitted in Rawl. MS.
177 _Thus gazing, and thus striuing, we perseuer_, Thus striking, thus
gazeing, we perseuere.
178 _what so firme_, nought soe sure; _maie_, will; _euer_, ever.
179 _Oh!_ Fleete; _rauisht Mistris cryes_, ravisht senses cries.
180 _Leaste_, sith; _content that on_, Content vppon.
181 _Be_, Which; _too_, soe; _seat_, seates.
182 _And me unwares of hoped bliss defeat_, me vnawares of blissefull
hope defeates. Here occur two lines in the Rawl. MS. which do not
appear in the Petyt MS., as follows:
Togeather lett our equall motions stirr,
Togeather lett vs liue and dye, my deare;
183 _Together lett us marche unto content_, Togeather let vs march
with one contente.


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