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11The whiles an hundred little wingèd loves,But let stil Silence trew night-watches keepe,
22Like divers fethered doves,That sacred Peace may in assurance rayne,
33Shall fly and flutter round about your bed, And tymely Sleep, when it is tyme to sleepe,
44And in the secret dark, that none reprovesMay poure his limbs forth on your pleasant playne.
55Their pretty stealths shall work, and snares shall spreadThe whiles an hundred little winged Loves,
6Like divers-fethered doves,
7Shall fly and flutter round about the bed,
8And in the secret darke, that none reproves,
9Their prety stealthes shall worke, and snares shall spread
610To filch away sweet snatches of delight,To filch away sweet snatches of delight,
711Concealed through covert night.Conceald through covert night.
12Ye sonnes of Venus, play your sports at will!
13For greedy Pleasure, carelesse of your toyes,
14Thinks more upon her paradise of ioyes,
15Then what ye do, albe it good or ill.
16All night, therefore, attend your merry play,
17For it will soone be day:
18Now none doth hinder you, that say or sing;
19Ne will the woods now answer, nor your eccho ring.

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