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A GENTLE ECHO ON WOMAN[1].
in the dorick manner.
Shepherd.
ECHO, I ween, will in the woods reply,
And quaintly answer questions: shall I try?
Echo. Try.
Shepherd.
What must we do our passion to express?
Echo. Press.
Shepherd.
How shall I please her who ne'er lov'd before?
Echo. Before.
Shepherd.
What most moves women when we them address?
Echo. A dress.
Shepherd.
Say, what can keep her chaste, whom I adore?
Echo. A door.
Shepherd.
If musick softens rocks, love tunes my lyre.
Echo. Lyar.
Shepherd.
Then teach me, Echo, how shall I come by her?
Echo. Buy her.
Shepherd.
When bought, no question, I shall be her dear?
Echo. Her deer.
- ↑ This writer seems to have been indebted either to lord Sterling's Aurora, 4to, 1604; or to "The Hog hath lost its Pearl." See Mr. Read's Note in Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. vi, p. 426,
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