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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600].

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[Why Should this Desart be]
Why should this Desart be,
  for it is unpeopled? No:
Tongues Ile hang on every tree,
  That shall civill sayings shoe.
Some how briefe the life of Man,
  runnes his erring Pilgrimage,
That the stretching of a Span.
  buckles in his some of age.
Some of violated vowes,
  twixt the soules of friend and friend,
But upon the fairest bowes,
  or at every sentence end;
Will I Rosalinda write,
  Teaching all that read to know,
The quintissence of every sprite,
  heaven would in little show.
Therefore Heaven Nature chang'd,

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  that one body should be fill'd
With all graces wide inlarg'd,
  nature presently distill'd.
Hellens cheecke, but not his heart,
  Cleopatria's Majestie:
Atlanta's better part,
  sad Lucrecia's modestie.
Thus Rosalinde of many parts
  by heavenly Synods was devis'd
Of many faces, eyes and hearts,
  to have the touches deerest pris'd
Heaven would these gifts she should have,
  and I to live and die her slave.
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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600].