IDENTILIN$$ F008.EU3|ElBrac Laing III. 493| ff. 92v-94r| EWS\o\5-31-83/cor EWS/mf/6-29-92 008.EU3.HE1 >>Elegie XII. p. 81<< 008.EU3.001 |Not for in colour it was like thy heare 008.EU3.002 Armeletts of y%5t%6 thou mayst still let me weare 008.EU3.003 Nor for thy hande it still imbrac'te & kist 008.EU3.004 for so it had that good w%5ch%6 ofte I miste 008.EU3.005 Nor for that silly oulde moralitye 008.EU3.006 That as those linkes ar chainde our loues should be 008.EU3.007 Mourne I that I thy seuen-fould chayne haue lost 008.EU3.008 Nor for y%5e%6 lucks sake but y%5e%6 bitter cost.| 008.EU3.009 O shall twelue righteous Angells w%5ch%6 as yet 008.EU3.010 No leuen of vilde soder did admitte 008.EU3.011 Nor yet by any fate haue strayde or gon 008.EU3.012 from y%5e%6 first state of their creation 008.EU3.013om 008.EU3.014om 008.EU3.015om 008.EU3.016om 008.EU3.017 Shall theise twelue Innocents by thy seueare 008.EU3.018 Sentence (dread Iudge) my synnes great burthen beare? 008.EU3.019 Shall thay be damnde & in y%5e%6 furnace throwne 008.EU3.020 & ponisht for offences not their owne? 008.EU3.021 Thay saue not me, thay do not ease my paines 008.EU3.022 when in that Hell th'ar burnte, & tyde in chaynes: 008.EU3.023 were thay but crownes of fraunce I cared not 008.EU3.024 for most of them their naturall cuntrey rott 008.EU3.025 I thinke possesseth, thay cum heere to vs 008.EU3.026 So pale so lame so leane so ruinous| 008.EU3.027 & howsoere french kings most-christian be 008.EU3.028 Their crownes is circumcisde most Iewishly: 008.EU3.029 Or were thay Spanish stamps still trauayling 008.EU3.030 That ar becom as Catholique as their kinge, 008.EU3.031 Those vnlickt beare whelpes, vnfilde Pistoletts 008.EU3.032 W%5ch%6 more y%5en%6 cannon-shott auayles, or letts, [CW:w%5ch%6#negligently] 008.EU3.033 W%5ch%6 necligently left vnrounded, looke [f.93r 008.EU3.034 Like many angled figures in y%5e%6 booke 008.EU3.035 Of sum drad Conjurer y%5t%6 would enforce 008.EU3.036 Nature, (as thay do Iustice) from her course: 008.EU3.037om 008.EU3.038om 008.EU3.039om 008.EU3.040om 008.EU3.041om 008.EU3.042om 008.EU3.043 Or were it such goulde as that, wherwithall 008.EU3.044 Almighty Chymicks from each mynerall 008.EU3.045 Hauing by subtile fyre a soule outpullde 008.EU3.046 Ar durtely & desperatly gullde: 008.EU3.047 I would not spitt to quenche y%5e%6 fire th'ar in, 008.EU3.048 for thay ar guilty of much haynous sinne. 008.EU3.049 But shall I loose my righteous Angells,? shall 008.EU3.050 I loose my life my ease my guarde & all? 008.EU3.051 Much hope (w%5ch%6 theise should nourish) wilbe dead, 008.EU3.052 Much of my able youth, & lustyhead 008.EU3.053 will vanish: If thou loue, let them alone; 008.EU3.054 for thou wilt loue me lesse when thay ar gon; 008.EU3.055 O be content y%5t%6 sum lowde squeaking cryer 008.EU3.056 well pleasde w%5th%6 one leane thredbare groate for hyre 008.EU3.057 May like a Deuill rore through euery streete 008.EU3.058 & galde y%5e%6 finders conscience if thay meete, 008.EU3.059 Or let me creepe to som drad Conjurer 008.EU3.060 That w%5th%6 fantastique schemes fullfills much paper 008.EU3.061 y%5t%6 hath deuyded heuen in tenements 008.EU3.062 & with whoores theeues & murdrers stuff't his rents 008.EU3.063 So full (that though he passe them all in sinne) 008.EU3.064 He leaues himselfe no roome to enter in: 008.EU3.065 & if when all his tyme & arte is spente 008.EU3.066 There wilbe nothing founde, yet be contente, 008.EU3.067 Receiue from him y%5e%6 doome vngrudgeingly; 008.EU3.068 Because he is y%5e%6 mouth of destinye: [CW:Alas#thou] 008.EU3.069 Alas thou sayst y%5e%6 gould doth still remayne [f.>>93v<<] 008.EU3.070 Though it be chaungde and putt into a chayne, 008.EU3.071 So in the first falne Angells resteth still 008.EU3.072 wisedom & knowledge, but is turnde to yll: 008.EU3.073 As theise should do good deedes, & should prouide 008.EU3.074 Necessityes, but now must nurse thy pride. 008.EU3.075om 008.EU3.076om 008.EU3.077om 008.EU3.078om 008.EU3.079 But thou art resolute; thy will be don, 008.EU3.080 Yet w%5th%6 such anguish as her only Sonne, 008.EU3.081 y%5e%6 mother in the hungry graue doth laye, 008.EU3.082 Vnto y%5e%6 fyre theise martirs I betraye. 008.EU3.083om 008.EU3.084om 008.EU3.085 destinde you might haue bin to such a one 008.EU3.086 As would haue lou'de & worshipt y.%5u%6 alone 008.EU3.087 One that would suffer hunger, nakednes 008.EU3.088 Yea death ere he would make yo.%5r%6 number lesse: 008.EU3.089 But I am guiltye of yo.%5r%6 sad decaye; 008.EU3.090 May your fewe fellowes longer with me stay| 008.EU3.091 But thou (o wretched finder) whom I hate 008.EU3.092 So much, that I almost pittye thy state, 008.EU3.093 Goulde being y%5e%6 heauyest metall amongst all 008.EU3.094 May my most heauy curse vpon thee fall: 008.EU3.095 Heere fettred manacled & tyed in chaynes 008.EU3.096 first mayst thou bee, then chayn'de to hellish paines; 008.EU3.097om 008.EU3.098om 008.EU3.099 May y%5e%6 next thinge thou stoop'est to reach, contayne 008.EU3.100 Poison whose nimble fume rott thy moiste brayne: 008.EU3.101 Or libells or sum interdicted thinge, 008.EU3.102 w%5ch%6 necligently kept thy ruyne bringe: 008.EU3.103 Lust-bred diseases rott thee, & dwell w%5th%6 thee, 008.EU3.104 Itchy desire, & no abilitye, 008.EU3.105 May all y%5e%6 yll y%5t%6 euer goulde hath wrought [CW:All] 008.EU3.106 All mischiefs that all Diuells euer thought, [f.94r 008.EU3.107 Wante after plentye, pore & gowty age, 008.EU3.108 y%5e%6 plague of trauaylers loue marryadge 008.EU3.109 Afflict thee, & at thy liues last moment 008.EU3.110 May thy swolne synnes themselues to thee presente;| 008.EU3.111 But I forgiue, repente thou honest man: 008.EU3.112 Goulde is restoratiue, restore it than| 008.EU3.113 But yet if from it thou beest loth to parte 008.EU3.114 Because 't is cordiall, would 'twere at thy harte.| 008.EU3.0SS I. 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