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Felix, for heere thou seest some, who woulde gladly hazard their heades for them whom they loue. This is an easie thing, saide the Shepherd, to saie it. And easier said Lord Felix to do it. I promise you sir, saide the Shepherd, if death knocked at your dore, and if it were in your election to go with it your selfe, or to sende your loue, that it might be seene what I say. But rather that which I affirme, saide Lord Felix. I thinke it a hard matter, saide the Shepherd. With these demands and an∣swers they came to the Temple, where they rested themselues, and feasted that new guest, who was well entertained of the sage Felicia, bicause she knew him woorthie of it. After they had made an end of their great dinner, all of them requested him to sing the song, that he came singing when he left it off at their sight. He saide, he was well content, and glad if they woulde lende an eare vnto it, not for his voice, which was not woorth it, but for the matter which deserued any good whatsoeuer: But requesting, that some instrument might play to him, bicause his song might be the better set foorth, Doria by Felicias command, tooke a Harpe, and tuning it to the highest note that he would sing, the rest being all attentiue to him, he began thus.
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