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(Fair gentlewoman)
IF it be an irrevocable doom, that men, be they never so valiant or couragious, shall be sub∣ject unto a braver and more livelier force then their owne; I hope you will not marvel over∣much, that I humbly yeild to your divine graces; and, as a captive your to beauty, prostrate my self a prisoner at your feet. But as
mortal men deserve no countenance from the hea∣vens, until they have by many proofs testified their faithful and dutious service towards them; so, I will not presume to importune you to affect me at all, much less to yeild me any guerdon for my paines, until that by my dutious service I show my self (in some part) worthy your gratious smiles. Mine onely request to you is, that it would please you to have me in your lively remembrance; and not to entertaine another, as your loyal Servant, before you shall have just occasion to discard and give me over: for as (no doubt) it will be little pleasing unto you (hereafter) to repent you, that you have made a worse choice then of my self; so it will be far more bitter unto me, then a most des∣perate death, to be discharged from serving her, whom I love more then my owne heart, and che∣rish more then my owne life, yea then my owne soul, which is (now) wholly yours, seeing that he that is the owner of the same, is the inviolable slave to your incomparable self.
A. R.