Hold Lady the hand, or as I may better ſay, the executioner of earthly miſcreants: hold I ſay that hand, which no other woman euer touched before, not euen ſhee her ſelfe that hath intyre poſſeſſion of my whole body, nor doe I giue it to you, to the end you ſhould kiſſe it; but that you may behold the contexture of the ſinnewes, the knitting of the muſcles, and the ſpacioſity and breadth of the veines, whereby you may collect how great ought the force of that arme to be whereunto ſuch a hand is knit.
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