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017.H06.0HE  >>P.<<  Elegie  .11.%5a%6
017.H06.001  Marry and loue thy Flauia; for shee
017.H06.002  Hath all things whereby others beauteous bee.
017.H06.003  ffor though her eyes bee small, her mouth is greate
017.H06.004  Though they bee Iuory, yet her teeth ar Ieate
017.H06.005  Though they bee dim%Me, yet shee is light enough
017.H06.006  And though her harsh hayre fall, her skin is tough.
017.H06.007  What though her cheekes bee yellow, her hayre's redd
017.H06.008  Giue her thine and shee hath a Maydenhead.
017.H06.009  These things are beauties Elements, where these
017.H06.010  Meete in one, that one must as perfect please.
017.H06.011  If redd and white, and each good quality
017.H06.012  Bee in thy wench, ne're aske where it doth lye
017.H06.013  In buying things perfum'd, wee aske if there
017.H06.014  Bee muske and Amber in it, but not where.
017.H06.015  Though all the parts bee not in th'usuall place
017.H06.016  Yet shee hath an Anagram of a good face. [CW:If#wee--]
017.H06.017  If wee might put the letters but one way [68v]
017.H06.018  In the leane dearth of words what could wee say?
017.H06.019  When by the Gamut some Musitians make
017.H06.020  A Perfect song, others will vndertake
017.H06.021  By the same Gamut chang'd to ae%Lquall it.
017.H06.022  Things simply good can never bee vnfitt.
017.H06.023  Shee's fayre as any if all bee like her
017.H06.024  And if none bee, then is shee singuler.
017.H06.025  All Loue is wonder.  If wee iustly doe
017.H06.026  Account her wondrous, why not louely too?
017.H06.027  Loue built on beauty soone as beauty dyes
017.H06.028  Choose this face, chang'd by no deformityes.
017.H06.029  Woemen are all like Angells, the fayre bee
017.H06.030  Like those that fell to worse, but such as shee
017.H06.031  Like to good Angels nothing can impayre.
017.H06.032  Tis lesse greefe to bee fowle then t'haue bin fayre.
017.H06.033  ffor one nights revells silke and gold wee choose
017.H06.034  But in long Iournyes cloth and leather vse.
017.H06.035  Beauty is barren oft, best husbands say
017.H06.036  There is best land where there is foulest way.
017.H06.037  O%C what a soueraigne playster will shee bee
017.H06.038  If thy past sinnes haue taught thee Iealousy?
017.H06.039  Heere neede no spyes nor Eunuchs, her com%Mitt
017.H06.040  Safe to thy foes, yea to a Marmoset
017.H06.041  When Belgias Cittyes the foule Country drownes
017.H06.042  That durty fowlenesse guards and armes the Townes
017.H06.043  So doth her face guard her, and so for thee
017.H06.044  Who forc'd by businesse absent oft must bee
017.H06.045  Shee whose face, like to cloudes, turnes day to night
017.H06.046  Who, mightier then the Sea, makes Mores seeme white.
017.H06.047  Who though seven yeares shee in the Stews had layd:
017.H06.048  A Nunnery durst receaue and thinke a mayde. [CW:And--]
017.H06.049  And though in Childbeds[var.>Childbirths<] labour shee did lye [69r]
017.H06.050  Midwiues would sweare t'were but a Tympany.
017.H06.051  Whome, if shee accuse her selfe I credit lesse
017.H06.052  Then witches w.%5ch%6 Impossibles confesse.
017.H06.053  Whome Dildos, bedstaues, or a Veluet glasse
017.H06.054  Would bee as lothe to touch as Ioseph was
017.H06.055  One like none%Y,%Z >%V%5and%6< likd of none fittest were
017.H06.056  ffor things in fashion every man will weare.|
017.H06.0SSom
017.H06.0$$  %1Final couplet ind. 3 sp.%2