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THE BRIDE’S FIRST NIGHT
the whilst he seekes for babyes in her eyes,feeles her white neck, & ivery breasts that riseLike 2 white snowy hills, and still doth praiseall that he feeles or touches; then thus sayes:“O frish and flourishing Virgin now in brid,and are you growne at length so near my side;of all my hopes the storehouse and the treasure,my long-expected, now my greatest pleasure;my sweet & dearest loue, this could not benor happen thus, but by the gods decree;& will [you] now the power of loue withstande?”at this she turnes, & stayes his forward hand,trembling to think of that which was to ensue,or proue the thinge which yet she neuer knew;twixt hope and fear she thus replyes:“O faire and louely youth, list t’ a Virgins prayre!of the ingrate, by those which gaue the such,thy parents bee, I only beg thus much:pitty my tears, put me to noe affright,I only craue repriue but for this night”with [that] she seemes intraunst, and prostrate lyes,hath not one word to vtter more, nor eyesto see herselfe vnvirgeyned, winkes, lyes still,& since be needes must, letts him act his will:betwixt them too, they quench loues amorrous fires,she what she feares, he what he long desires.
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