IDENTILIN$$ F017O17/ Eng. poet. e.37 (pp.31-2)/TJS/mf/11-5-91/cor EWS/o/5-29-92 017.O17.HE1om 017.O17.001 Marry & love thy Flavia for shee 017.O17.002 hath all things whereby others beautious bee 017.O17.003 For though hir eyes be small, hir mouth is greate 017.O17.004 though they be Ivory yet hir teeth be Iett 017.O17.005 Though they be dim, yet she is light enough 017.O17.006 And though hir harsh hayre fall, hir skin is tough. 017.O17.007 What though hir cheekes be yallowe, hir hair is->>hairs %Yis%Z< redd 017.O17.008 Give hir thine and she hath a maydenheade| 017.O17.009 These thinges are beawties elements: where these 017.O17.010 mete in one: that one must perfect please. 017.O17.011 As red and white & each good qualitye 017.O17.012 be in thy wench, nea'r aske where it doth Lye| 017.O17.013 In b%5u%6yeinge things perfumde, we aske if there 017.O17.014 Be muske and Amber in it: & not wheare: 017.O17.015 Though all hir parts be not in th'vsuall place 017.O17.016 yet she'hath an Anagram of a good face 017.O17.017 If we might put the L%5rs%6. but one waye 017.O17.018 In the Leane dearth of words what could we saye? 017.O17.019 when by the Gamvt some Musitions make, 017.O17.020 a perfect songe, others will vndertake 017.O17.021 by the same Gamvt changde to ae%Lquall it. 017.O17.022 "Things symplie good can never be vnfitt. 017.O17.023 She is faire as any if all be like hir 017.O17.024 And if none be, why then she's singuler 017.O17.025 All love is wonder, yf we iustlye doe 017.O17.026 accomt hir wonderfull, why not Lovely too? 017.O17.027 Love built on beautie soone as beauty dyes 017.O17.028 Choose this face, changll->>changd< by no deformityes. 017.O17.029 weomen are all like angells, The faire bee 017.O17.030 like those that fell to worse, But such as she 017.O17.031 Like to good Angells, nothinge can impaire 017.O17.032 Tis' lesse greefe to be fowle, then t'haue bene faire. 017.O17.033 For one nights revells silke & gould we choose [p.32 017.O17.034 But in longe iornyes cloth and leather vse. 017.O17.035 Beauty is barren, oft best husbands saye 017.O17.036 there is best land, where there is fowlest waye. 017.O17.037 Oh what a soveraigne plaster will she be 017.O17.038 yf thy past sinns haue taught the Ielosye 017.O17.039 Here needes no spyes nor Eunuchs. Hir committ 017.O17.040 Safe to thy foes: yea to a Marmositt. 017.O17.041 When Belgiaes cittyes the round countryes drowne 017.O17.042 That durty fowlenesse armes & gards the towne, 017.O17.043 So doth hire face gard hir & safe for thee 017.O17.044 Who forc'd by %Yb%5u%6ysines%Z busines absent oft must be. 017.O17.045 She whose face like the clouds turnes day to nightt 017.O17.046 Who (mightier then the sea) makes Moores seeme white 017.O17.047 Whome (though seaven years in stewes she had bene layde) 017.O17.048 A Nunrye durst receiue & thinke a Mayde| 017.O17.049 And though in childbirths=labor she did lye 017.O17.050 Midwives would sweare t'weare but a Tympanye 017.O17.051 whome if she accuse hirselfe I creditt Lesse 017.O17.052 Then witches that impossibles conffese 017.O17.053 >>%Y<>%Z<< 017.O17.054 >>%Y<>%Z<< 017.O17.055 >>%Y<>%Z<< 017.O17.056 >>%Y<>%Z<< 017.O17.0SS I [scribal flourish] D 017.O17.0$$ %1no ind; lines 53-56 have been scratched out by a later hand;%2 Sat. %1in LM opp ll. 1-4 in scribal hand & ink beside%2 Donne fo. 74 Ed. 1635 %1in second hand; the manuscript has some blotches & bleedthrough; in l. 7 scribe changed%2 hair is %1to%2 hairs %1for metrical reasons%2