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A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO HER COSEN, F.W. by ISABELLA WHITNEY

First Line: GOOD COSIN MYNE, I HOPE IN HELTH AND SAFETY YOU ABYDE
Last Line: YOUR POORE KINSEWOMAN, IS. W.

Good Cosin myne, I hope in helth and safety you abyde.
And sore I long, to here if yet you are to wedlock tyde.
Yf so you be, God graunt that well both you and she it spend:
If not when s'ere it haps, I wish that God much joy you send.
And when you to the Cuntry come or thither chaunce to send:
Let me you see, or have some scroll, that shall of you be pend.
And this accompt as nature binds and meryts yours deserve:
I Cosin am, and faithfull Friend, not minding once to swerve.
So wishing you as happy health, as ever man possesst:
I end, and you commyt to him that evermore is blest.

@3Your poore Kinsewoman, Is. W.@1



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