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AN ANSWER TO LADY ALICE EGERTON'S SONG by JANE CAVENDISH

First Line: I CANNOT SEND YOU BACK MY HART
Last Line: PERHAPS MAY PROVE YOUR NETT
Subject(s): EGERTON, LADY ALICE (1619-1689);
I cannot send you back my hart
For I have but my owne
And that as Centry stands apart
Soe watchman is alone

Now I doe leave you for to spy
Where I my Campe will place
And if your Scouts, doe bringe alye
May bee your selfe will face

Then if you challenge mee the feild
And would mee batle sett
I then as Maister of the feild
Perhaps may prove your nett



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