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A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO HER BROTHER B.W. by ISABELLA WHITNEY

First Line: GOOD BROTHER, BROOKE, I OFTEN LOOKE, TO HEARE OF YOUR RETURNE
Last Line: * YOUR LOVING SISTER. IS. W.

Good Brother @3Brooke@1, I often looke, to heare of your returne:
But none can tell, if you be well, nor where you doo sojurne:
Which makes me feare, that I shall heare your health appaired is:
And oft I dread, that you are dead, or somthyng goeth amys.
Yet when I thinke, you can not shrinke, but must with Maister bee:
I have good hope, when you have scope, you wyll repaire to mee.
And so the feare, and deepe dispaire, that I of you then had
I dryve away: and wysh that day wherin we may be glad.
Glad for to see, but els for mee: wyll be no joy at all:
For on my side, no lucke will byde, nor happye chaunce befall.
As you shall know, for I wyll show, you more when we doo speake,
Then wyll I wryt, or yet resyte, within this Paper weake.
And so I end, and you commend, to him that guides the skyes:
Who graunt you health, and send you welth, no lesse then shall suffice.
* @3Your loving Sister. Is. W.@1



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