When fish with fowle change elements together,
The one forsaking aire, the other water,
And they that woare the finne, to weare the feather,
Remaining changelings all the worlds time after:
The course of nature will be so beguilde,
One maide shall get another maide with childe.
When euery Crow shall turne to be a Parret,
And euery Starre out-shine the glorious Sunne,
And the new water works runne white and clarret,
That come to towne by way of _Islington_,
Woemen and men shall quite renounce each other.
And maides shall bee with childe, like _Merlins_ mother.
_Grace_.
Like _Merlins_ mother, how was that I pray,
For I haue heard he was a cunning man,
There lines not snch another at this day,
Nor euer was, since _Brittans_ first began:
Tell vs the story, and we well will minde it.
Because they say, _In written bookes we finde it_.
_Bride_.
Marry this _Merlins_ mother was welsh Lady,
That liued in _Carnaruan_ beautious maide,
And loue of Lords and Knights shee did not way by,
But set all light, and euery one denay'd:
All Gentlemen, (as all you knowe be there,)
That came a wooing were no wit the neere.
At length it hapned that this gallant girle,
Which scorned all men that she euer saw,
Holding her selfe to be a matchlesse Pearle,
And such a Loadestone that could Louers draw:
Grew belly-full, exceeding bigge and plumpe,
Which put her Mayden-credit in a dumpe.
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