IDENTILIN$$  F017P06[?]|Sparrow ms.|ff. 41v-42v|T:PB\o\3-13-98\M:JSC\tr\3-26-98\
017.P06.HE1  J.D. to his friend
017.P06.001  Marry, and love thy %1Flavia%2, for, shee
017.P06.002  Hath all things, wherewith others beautious bee,
017.P06.003  For, though her eyes be small, her mouth is great,
017.P06.004  Though her lipps Ivory, yet her lipps are jet,
017.P06.005  Though they be dimme, yet she is light enough,
017.P06.006  And to[sic] her harsh haire fall, is[sic] skinne is rough;
017.P06.007  What though her cheeks be yellow, her haire is red,
017.P06.008  Give her thine, then she hath a maydenhead.
017.P06.009  These things are beauties elements, where these
017.P06.010  Meet in one, that one must, being perfect, please.
017.P06.011  If white and red and each good quality
017.P06.012  Be in thy wench, ne'r aske where it doth lye.
017.P06.013  In buying things perfum'd, we aske; if there
017.P06.014  Be muske and amber in them, but not where.
017.P06.015  Though all her parts be not in th'usuall place,
017.P06.016  She'hath an Anagram of a good face.
017.P06.017  If we could put the letters but one way,
017.P06.018  In the leane dearth of words, what could wee say?
017.P06.019  When by the Gamut some Musitions make
017.P06.020  A perfect song, others will undertake,
017.P06.021  By the same Gamut for[,] to equall it.
017.P06.022  Things that are simply good are nere unfit.
017.P06.023  She's faire as any, if that all be like her,
017.P06.024  And if none bee, then she is singular.
017.P06.025  All love is wonder; if wee rightly doe
017.P06.026  Accept her wonderfull, why not lovely too?
017.P06.027  Love built on beauty[,] goes as beauty[,] dies,
017.P06.028  Chuse this face, chang'd by no deformities.
017.P06.029  Women are all like Angels; the faire be
017.P06.030  Like those that fell to worse; but such as shee,
017.P06.031  Like to good Angels, nothing can impaire:
017.P06.032  'Tis lesse griefe to be foule, then to'have beene faire.
017.P06.033  For one nights revels, gold and silke we chuse,
017.P06.034  But, for long journeyes, cloth, and leather use.
017.P06.035  Beauty is barren oft; good husbands say,
017.P06.036  There is best land, where there's foulest clay.
017.P06.037  Oh what a soveraigne Plaister will shee bee,
017.P06.038  If thy past sinnes have taught thee jealousie!
017.P06.039  Here needs no spies, no[sic] eunuches; her commmit
017.P06.040  Safe to thy foes; nay to thy Marmojet.[sic]
017.P06.041  When Belgia's City, the low countries drowne,
017.P06.042  That durty foulenesse guards, and armes the towne:
017.P06.043  So doth her face guard her; and so, arme thee,
017.P06.044  Which, forc'd by businesse, oft must absent bee,
017.P06.045  [l.c.]her face that like the clouds, turnes the day to night,
017.P06.046  [l.c.]and, mightier then the sea, makes Moones[sic] looke white,
017.P06.047  Who, though seaven yeares, willing a Stews had laid,
017.P06.048  A Nunnery durst receive, and thinke a maid,
017.P06.049  And though in childbirth labour she did lie,
017.P06.050  Midwifes would sweare,'twere but a sympanie,[sic]
017.P06.051  Who, if shee accuse her selfe, I credit lesse
017.P06.052  Then witches, which impossibles confesse,
017.P06.053  Whom Dildoes, Bedstaves, and her Velvet Glasse
017.P06.054  Would be as loath to touch as Joseph was:
017.P06.055  One like none, and lik'd of none, is best yeare,[sic]
017.P06.056  For, things in fashion every man will weare.
017.P06.0SS  J.D.
017.P06.0$$  %1No ind noted; Peter Beal transcribed verbal variants using Q as base text; 
text above constructed from Q & collation, using punct/accidentals from Q (PB recorded no punct); 
JSC bracketed Q's commas where they seemed inappropriate with P6's verbals%2