114. UPON A DELAYING LADY

Come, come away

Or let me go;

Must I here stay

Because you're slow,

And will continue so;

--Troth, lady, no.

I scorn to be

A slave to state;

And since I'm free,

I will not wait,

Henceforth at such a rate,

For needy fate.

If you desire

My spark should glow,

The peeping fire

You must blow;

Or I shall quickly grow

To frost, or snow.

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