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Thread #31277   Message #406083
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
25-Feb-01 - 03:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Must I Go Bound
Subject: RE: Must I Go Bound
From Martin Parker's "Distressed Virgin", 1629, ZN2602

I put my finger to the bush,
thinking the sweetest Rose to find,
I prickt my finger to the bone,
and yet I left the rose behind

From "The Maiden's Complaint", 1633-4, ZN3062

Shall I be bound, that may be free?
Shall I love them that love not me?
Why should I thus seeme to complaine?
I see that I cannot him obtain.