IDENTILIN$$ F017B07/ BL Add. 18647 (ff.1r-v)/TJS/mf/3-28-91/cor GAS/o/7-11-92\C:JSC\11-1-95
017.B07.0HE Elegie|.
017.B07.001 Marry and love thy fflavia, for shee
017.B07.002 Hath all thinges whereby others beauteous bee,
017.B07.003 ffor though her eyes be smale, her mouth is greate
017.B07.004 Though they be Iu'rie, yet her teeth are Ieat
017.B07.005 Though they be dimme yet she is light enough
017.B07.006 And though her harsh haire fall he skinn is rough
017.B07.007 what though her Cheekes be yellowe, her haire is redd
017.B07.008 Give her thine and shee hath a maydenhead
017.B07.009 These things are beauteous Elementes: where these
017.B07.010 Meete in one, that one must as perfect please
017.B07.011 If red, and white, and each good qualitie
017.B07.012 Be in thy wench nere ask where it doth lie
017.B07.013 In buyinge thinges perfum'd, wee ask if there,
017.B07.014 Bee muske, and Amber in it, but not where,
017.B07.015 Though all her partes be not in th'vsuall place
017.B07.016 Yet she hath an Anagram of a good face
017.B07.017 If wee might put the letters but one waye
017.B07.018 In that leane dearth of words what could wee say?
017.B07.019 When by the Gamut some Musitians make
017.B07.020 A perfect songe others will vndertake
017.B07.021 By the same Gamut Chaung'd to equall it
017.B07.022 Thinges simply good can never by vnfitt
017.B07.023 Shees faire as any, if all be like her,
017.B07.024 And if none be then she is singuler
017.B07.025 All love is wonder, if wee iustly doe,
017.B07.026 Accompt =her wonderfull, why not lovely too?
017.B07.027 Love built on bea>%Vu<ty soone as beauty dies
017.B07.028 Choose this face, Chaung'd by no deformities
017.B07.029 Woemen are all like Angells: the faire bee
017.B07.030 like those w%5ch%6 fell to worse, but such as shee
017.B07.031 Like to good Angells nothinge can impaire
017.B07.032 Tis lesse greeffe to be foule, then to have beene faire,
017.B07.033 ffor one nightes Revells, silke, and gould wee choose,
017.B07.034 But in longe Iornies cloth and leather vse,
017.B07.035 Beauty is barren ofte,: best husbandes saye
017.B07.036om
017.B07.037 Oh what a Soveraigne plaister will shee bee  [CW:If]
017.B07.038 If thy past sinnes have taught thee Iealousie? [f.1v
017.B07.039 Heere needes no spies, nor Eunuchs; her Com%Mitt
017.B07.040 Safe to thy foes, yea to a Marmositt
017.B07.041 When Belgias Citties the rownd Countries drowne
017.B07.042 That durty fouleness guardes, and armes the Towne
017.B07.043 So doth her face guard her, And so for thee
017.B07.044 Who forc'd by businesse absent oft must bee,
017.B07.045 She whose face like Clouds, turnes the daye to night
017.B07.046 Who mightier then the Sea makes Moors seeme white
017.B07.047 Who though seau'n yeares she in the Stewes had laide
017.B07.048 A nunry durst receave and thinke a maide
017.B07.049 And though in Child-birthes labour shee did lie
017.B07.050 Midwiues would sweare, t'were but a Timpany
017.B07.051 Whom (if sh'accuse her selfe) I creditt lesse
017.B07.052 Then witches, w%5ch%6 impossible Confesse|
017.B07.053 Whom Dildoes, Bedstaves, and her velvett glasse
017.B07.054 Would be as loath to touch as Ioseph was
017.B07.055 One like none, and Lik'd of none fittest were,
017.B07.056 ffor thinges in fashion every man will weare|
017.B07.0SS ffinis
017.B07.0$$ %1not ind.;%2 N.%5o%6 33. %1written at top of 1r, right of HE & GAS 
            says in same hand that entered the ms. no.--a librarian's mark%2