<p>Good Folkes, take heede; for, here's a wanton Wagge,<lb/> Who, having Bowes and Arrowes, makes his bragg<lb/> That, he hath some unhappy trick to play;<lb/> And, vowes to shoot at all he meets to day.<lb/> Pray be not carelesse; for, the Boy is blinde,<lb/> And, sometimes strikes, where most he seemeth kinde.<lb/> This rambling Archer spares nor one, nor other:<lb/> Yea, otherwhile, the Monkey shoots his Mother.<lb/> Though you be little Children, come not neere;<lb/> For, I remember (though't be many a yeare<lb/> Now gone and past,) that, when I was a Lad,<lb/> My Heart, a pricke, by this young Wanton had,<lb/> That, pain'd me seven yeares after: nor had I<lb/> The grace (thus warn'd) to scape his waggery;<lb/> But many times, ev'n since I was a man,<lb/> He shot me, oftner then I tell you can:<lb/> And, if I had not bene the stronger-hearted,<lb/> I, for my over-daring, might have smarted.<lb/> You laugh now, as if this were nothing so;<lb/> But, if you meet this Blinkard with his Bow,<lb/> You may, unlesse you take the better care,<lb/> Receive a wound, before you be aware.<lb/> I feare him not; for, I have learned how<lb/> To keepe my heart-strings from his Arrowes now:<lb/> And, so might you, and so might ev'ry one<lb/> That vaine Occasions, truely seekes to shunn.<lb/> But, if you sleight my Counsells, you may chance<lb/> To blame at last, your willfull ignorance:<lb/> For, some, who thought, at first, his wounds but small<lb/> Have dyed by them, in an Hospitall.<lb/> </p>

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Cupid flying over a landscape, taking aim at a couple with his bow and arrow

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<p>Be wary, whosoe're thou be,<lb/> For, from Loves arrowes, none are free.</p>

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