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| THE HEART and service to you proffer’d | |
| With right good will full honestly, | |
| Refuse it not since it is offer’d, | |
| But take it to you gentlely. | |
| And though it be a small present, | 5 |
| Yet good, consider graciously, | |
| The thought, the mind, and the intent | |
| Of him that loves you faithfully. | |
| It were a thing of small effect | |
| To work my woe thus cruelly; | 10 |
| For my good will to be object, | |
| Therefore accept it lovingly. | |
| Pain, or travail; to run, or ride, | |
| I undertake it pleasantly; | |
| Bid ye me go and straight I glide, | 15 |
| At your commandment humbly. | |
| Pain or pleasure now may you plant, | |
| Even which it please you steadfastly; | |
| Do which you list, I shall not want | |
| To be your servant secretly. | 20 |
| And since so much I do desire, | |
| To be your own assuredly; | |
| For all my service, and my hire | |
| Reward your servant liberally. | |
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