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- # THE PASSIONATE PILGRIME.
## Overview
This is a chapter extracted from a larger poetry collection, specifically from lines 8007 to 8077 of the source file. It is labeled "THE PASSIONATE PILGRIME." and contains three poems.
## Context
This chapter is part of [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF), a poetry collection that includes facsimile editions of William Shakespeare's works. The collection is derived from the file `pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt` and is associated with the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. It follows the chapter [The *Passionate Pilgrim*](arke:01KG6S4FQ9B05TDSVW2G3VD6WR) and is succeeded by [SWest Cytherea, fitting by a Brooke,](arke:01KG6S4FQ9V4BV9S7NZHJ3HCQ2).
## Contents
This chapter contains three poems, each presented with initial capital letters and interspersed with images and page references. The first poem begins with "When my Loue swears that she is made of truth," the second with "Two Loses I have, of Comfort, and Defecire," and the third with "D id not the heavenly Rhetorike of thine etc". The text includes references to love, youth, age, and philosophical reflections on virtue and temptation. The chapter also includes images and references to pages 353, 354, 355, 356, 357 and 358.
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- # WHAT WE MAY DO
When my Loue swears that she is made of truth,
I doe believe her (though I know she has)
That she might think me some vnutor d youth,
Vnskilfull in the worlds falle forgeries.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although I know my yeares be paft the beft:
I smiling, credite her talle speaking young,
Outfacing faults in Loue, with lous ill reft.
But wherefore fayes my Loue that she is young?
And wherefore fay not I, that I am old?
O, Loue: beft habite is a soothing young,
And Age: in Loue) lous: not to have yeares rold,
Therefore I le lye with Loue, and Loue with me,
Since that our faults in Loue thus smother d be.
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Two Loses I have, of Comfort, and Defecire,
That like two Spirits, do forget me still:
My better Angell is a Man (right faith)
My worfer spirits a Woman (colour'd ill.)
To winnie me loone to hell, my Female cull
Tempteth my better Angell from my side,
And would corrupt my Saint to be a Djuell,
Wooing his purity with her faite pride.
And whether that my Angell be nirnde feend,
Suspect I may (yet not directly tell):
For being both to me: both, to each friend,
I ghehe one Angell in another's hell:
The truth I shall not know, but hue in doubt,
Till my bad Angell fire my good one out.
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D id not the heavenly Rhetorike of thine etc,
Garoft whom the world could not hold argument,
Perfwade my hart to this false persturie:
Vowes for thee broke defense not punishment.
A woman I forfware: but I will proate
Thou being a Goddeffé, I forfware not thee:
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly loue,
Thy grace being gainde, cures all disgrace in me,
My vow was breath, and breath a vapor is,
Then thou taitre Sun, that on this earth doth thine,
Exhale this vapor vow, in thee it is:
If broken, then it is no fault of mine.
If by me broke, what inole is not fo wife
To breake an Oath, to win a Paradifer
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- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIME.