Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent

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Title: Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent
Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Publication: Printed at London :: By Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard,; 1640.
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A Temptation.

TWo loves I have, of Comfort, and Despaire,
That like two Spirits doe suggest me still:
My better Angell is a Man (right faire)
My worser spirit a Woman (colour'd ill.)
To winne me soone to hell, my Female evill
Tempteth my better Angell from my side,
And would corrupt my Saint to be a Divell,
Wooing his puritie, with her faire pride.
And whether that my Angell be turnd feend,
Suspect I may (yet not directly tell:)
For being both to me: both to each friend,
I ghesse one Angell in anothers hell.
The truth I shall not know, but live in doubt▪
Till my bad Angell fire my good one out.