IDENTILIN$$ F009.O16/ElComp Eng. poet. e.14 (ff. 60v-61)/ TJS/mf/1-31-92/cor EWS/o/5-29-92 009.O16.0HE %XA Comparison of two Mistresses 009.O16.001 As y%5e%6 sweete sweate of Roses in a Still 009.O16.002 As y%5t%6 w%5ch%6 from chaf'd Musk-Catts Pores doth trill 009.O16.003 As y%5e%6 Almighty Balme of th'Early East 009.O16.004 Such are y%5e%6 sweet drops of my M%5rs%6 Brest: 009.O16.005 And on her Neck & Skin such luster setts 009.O16.006 They seeme no Sweat-drops, but Pearle Coronetts. 009.O16.007 Ranke sweaty froth Thy M%5rs%6 brow defyles 009.O16.008 Like spermatick issue of ripe monstrous Biles; 009.O16.009 Or like y%5e%6 Scu%Mm w%5ch%6 Needs lawless Law 009.O16.010 Enforced %1Sancerra's%2 starved Men to draw 009.O16.011 From parboyld Shoes & Bootes; & all y%5e%6 rest 009.O16.012 W%5ch%6 were with any sovereigne fattness blest: 009.O16.013 And like vile lieng stones in saffrond Tinne 009.O16.014 Or warts, or wheales they hange vpon her skin. 009.O16.015 Rownd is my M%5rs%6 Head on ev'ry syde 009.O16.016 Like to y%5e%6 fatall Ball w%5ch%6 fell on Ide; 009.O16.017 Or y%5t%6 whereof God had such Iealousy 009.O16.018 As for y%5e%6 ravishing thereof we dye. 009.O16.019 Thy head, is like a rowgh hewen statue of Iett 009.O16.020 Where markes for Eyes, Nose, Mowth are scarcly sett 009.O16.021 Like y%5e%6 first %1Chaos%2, or flatt seeming face 009.O16.022 Of Cinthia, when th'Earths shadowes her embrace. 009.O16.023 Like Proserpines s->White Beawty-keeping Chest 009.O16.024 Or Ioves best-Fortunes-vrne, is Her fayre Brest. 009.O16.025 Thine, like worme-eaten-Trunks, clothd in Seales /Skinns 009.O16.026om 009.O16.027om 009.O16.028om 009.O16.029om 009.O16.030 Of Men, late scourged for Madness or for sinns. 009.O16.031 Like Sun-parchd Quarters on y%5e%6 Citty Gate [f. 61] 009.O16.032 Such is thy turnd-Skin's lamentable State. 009.O16.033 And like a Bunch of ragged Carrotts stand 009.O16.034 Thy short swolne fingers, on thy Gowty hand. 009.O16.035 Then, like y%5e%6 Chimick's masculine equall fyer 009.O16.036 Wch in th'Alembeck's warme wombe doth inspire 009.O16.037 Into Earths worthless Dust, a sowle of Gold; 009.O16.038 Such cherishing heates her best-lov'd part doth hold. 009.O16.039 Thine, like y%5e%6 dread Mowth of a fired Gun 009.O16.040 Or like hott liquid Metalls newly run 009.O16.041 Into Clay-Moulds; Or like to y%5t%6 Etna 009.O16.042 Where round abowt y%5e%6 Grass is burnt away. 009.O16.043 Are not y%5r%6 kisses then as filthy, or more 009.O16.044 Then a worme sucking an Envenomd sore? 009.O16.045 Doth not thy fearefull hands in feeling quake 009.O16.046 As one, wch gathering flow'ers, still feares a Snake? 009.O16.047 Is not y%5r%6 last Act, harsh, & violent? 009.O16.048 As when a Plowgh, a stony Grownd doth rent? 009.O16.049 Soe kiss good Turtles, so devoutly Nice 009.O16.050 As preists in handling reverend Sacrifice: 009.O16.051 And such, in searching Wounds y%5e%6 Surgeon is 009.O16.052 As wee, when we embrace, or touch, or kiss. 009.O16.053 Leave Her, & I will leave comparing thus 009.O16.054 She & comparisons are odious. 009.O16.0SS [flourish] 009.O16.0$$ %1ll. 7 15 19 23 25 31 35 45 ind and final couplet ind 3-4sp; punctuation is hard to read in the mf, as are some of the letters; HE centered; poem numbered%2 154 %1in LM, but not by scribe of poem. Ll. 26-29 om.%2