VIII. _The Bacheler._

How many things as yet are deere alike to me,

The field, the horse, the dog, loue, armes or liberty.

I haue no wife as yet, whom I may call mine owne,

I haue no children yet, that by my name are knowne.

Yet if I married were, I would not wish to thriue,

If that I could not tame the veriest shrew aliue.

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