White Witchcraft
If you and I could change to beasts, what beast should either be? Shall you and I play Jove for once? Turn fox then, I decree! Shy wild sweet stealer of the grapes! Now do your worst on me! And thus you think to spite your friend, turned loathsome? What, a toad? So, all men shrink and shun me! Dear men, pursue your road! Leave but my crevice in the stone, a reptiles fit abode Now say your worst, Canidia! Hes loathsome, I allow: There may or may not lurk a pearl beneath his puckered brow: But see his eyes that follow mine, love lasts there, anyhow.
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