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MELANDER SUPPOS'D TO LOVE SUSAN, BUT DID LOVE ANN by EDWARD HERBERT

First Line: WHO DOTH PRESUME MY MISTRESS'S NAME TO SCAN
Last Line: MUST I NOT HOWEVER LOVE SUSAN? ECHO. ANN.
Subject(s): LOVE;

WHO doth presume my mistress's name to scan,
Goes about more than any way he can,
Since all men think that it is Susan. @3Echo.@1 Ann.

What sayst? Then tell who is as white as swan,
While others set by her are pale and wan;
Then, Echo, speak, is it not Susan? @3Echo.@1 Ann.

Tell, Echo, yet, whose middle's but a span,
Some being gross as bucket, round as pan;
Say, Echo, then, is it not Susan? @3Echo.@1 Ann.

Say, is she not soft as meal without bran?
Though yet in great haste once from me she ran,
Must I not however love Susan? @3Echo.@1 Ann.



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