IDENTILIN$$ F01200A|ElServe|1633 M/MH\pp.53-55\fs\EWS\1-15-87\pr\cf\MJJ\10-1-95\cor\MJJ\11-20-95|p&c:JAH\mf(CtY),cd(DFo,TxAM1)\2-15-05 012.00A.0HE %X%1Elegie%2 VII. 012.00A.001 Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve 012.00A.002 Whom honours smoakes at once fatten and sterve; 012.00A.003 Poorely enrich't with great mens words or lookes; 012.00A.004 Nor so write my name in thy loving bookes 012.00A.005 As those Idolatrous flatterers, which still 012.00A.006 Their Princes stiles, which many Realmes fulfill 012.00A.007 Whence they no tribute have, and where no sway. 012.00A.008 Such services I offer as shall pay 012.00A.009 Themselves, I hate dead names: Oh then let mee 012.00A.010 Favorite in Ordinary, or no favorite bee. 012.00A.011 When my Soule was in her owne body sheath'd, 012.00A.012 Nor yet by oathes betroth'd, nor kisses breath'd 012.00A.013 Into my Purgatory, faithlesse thee, [CW:Thy] 012.00A.014 Thy heart seem'd waxe, and steele thy constancie. [p.54] 012.00A.015 So, carelesse flowers strow'd on the waters face, 012.00A.016 The curled whirlepooles suck, smack, and embrace, 012.00A.017 Yet drowne them; so, the tapers beamie eye 012.00A.018 Amorously twinkling, beckens the giddie flie, 012.00A.019 Yet burnes his wings; and such the devill is, 012.00A.020 Scarce visiting them, who are intirely his. 012.00A.021 When I behold a streame, which, from the spring, 012.00A.022 Doth with doubtfull melodious murmuring, 012.00A.023 Or in a speechlesse slumber, calmely ride 012.00A.024 Her wedded channels bosome, and then chide 012.00A.025 And bend her browes, and swell if any bough 012.00A.026 Do but stoop downe, or kisse her upmost brow: 012.00A.027 Yet, if her often gnawing kisses winne 012.00A.028 The traiterous banks to gape, and let her in, 012.00A.029 She rusheth violently, and doth divorce 012.00A.030 Her from her native, and her long-kept course, 012.00A.031 And rores, and braves it, and in gallant scorne, 012.00A.032 In flattering eddies promising retorne, 012.00A.033 She flouts the channell, who thenceforth is drie; 012.00A.034 Then say I; that is shee, and this am I. 012.00A.035 Yet let not thy deepe bitternesse beget 012.00A.036 Carelesse despaire in mee, for that will whet 012.00A.037 My minde to scorne; and Oh, love dull'd with paine 012.00A.038 Was ne'r so wise, nor well arm'd as disdaine. 012.00A.039 Then with new eyes I shall survay thee,'and spie 012.00A.040 Death in thy cheekes, and darknesse in thine eye; 012.00A.041 Though hope bred faith and love; thus taught, I shall 012.00A.042 As nations do from Rome, from thy love fall. 012.00A.043 My hate shall outgrow thine, and utterly [CW:I] 012.00A.044 I will renounce thy dalliance: and when I [p.55] 012.00A.045 Am the Recusant, in that resolute state, 012.00A.046 What hurts it mee to be'excommunicate? 012.00A.0SS [horiz rule] 012.00A.0$$om