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[N6v]

If Maides win young men with their guilestricks, deceits , heigh hoe guilefull greefe:  They deale like weeping Crocodiles, that murther men without releefe. +On this fable see Thomas Lodge,  Euphues Shadow  (1592),                         sig. C2r, ‘the Crocodile weepeth when shee wyll deuoure’, for other uses of this figure, see  Paradise , ‘The fruit of fained friends’, l. 7:                         ‘Crocadill’ *

I know a simple Countrie Hindeservant , heigh hoe sillie Swaine: To whom faire  Daphne  proued kinde,  was he not kinde to her againe? He vowed by  Pan  with many an oath, heigh hoe Shepheards God is he: Yet since hath chang’d, and broke his troathpledge , troth-plight broke, will plaguedtormented  be. 

 She had deceaued many a Swaine, fie on false deceite: And plighted troath to them in vaine, there can bee no griefe more great. Her measure was with measure paide,  heigh hoe, heigh hoe equall meede: She was beguil’d that had betraide, so shall all deceiuers speedeprosper . 

If euery Maide were like to mee, heigh hoe hard of hart:  Both loue and louers scorn’d should be, scorners shall be sure of smartpain . If euery Maide were of my minde, heigh hoe, heigh hoe louely sweete: They to their Louers should proue kinde,  kindnes is for Maidens meetfitting . 