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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

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A Sonet to the Ladie Paget.

[1] Some pleasures take, and cannot giue, but onely make poore thanks their shift: Some meaning well, in debt doo liue, and cannot tell how else to shift. [2] Some knock and faine would ope the doore, to learne the vaine good turne to praise: Some shew good face, and be but poore, yet haue a grace, good fame to raise. [3] Some owe and giue, yet still in det, and so must liue, for aught I knowe: Some wish to pay, and cannot get, but night and day still more must owe. [4] Euen so must I, for seruice past, Still wish you good while life doth last.

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