IDENTILIN$$  File F012B460  Stowe 961, ff.26r-v.  g.L., GAS/0/7-18-92
012.B46.0HE  Elegie.[cluster of three grapes].
012.B46.001  O let me not Serue soe, as those men Serue
012.B46.002  Whome Honors Smokes at once flatter and sterue
012.B46.003  Poorely inrich't with Great mens words or lookes
012.B46.004  Nor So write thy name in thy louinge Bookes
012.B46.005  As those Idolatrous flatterers, which still
012.B46.006  Theire Princes stiles with many names fulfill.
012.B46.007  Where they no tribute haue, and where no swey;
012.B46.008  Such Seruices I offer, as shall pay
012.B46.009  Themselues; I hate dead names; oh then let me
012.B46.010  Fauorite in ordinary, or no fauvorite bee.
012.B46.011  When my Soule was in her owne Bodie sheath'd
012.B46.012  Nor yet by oathes betroath'd, nor kisses breathd
012.B46.013  Into my Purgatorie, faithless thee.
012.B46.014  Thy harte semd waxe, and steele thy Constancy
012.B46.015  So careles flowers straw'd on the waters face
012.B46.016  The Curl'd Whirlepooles, sucke, Smacke and imbrace
012.B46.017  Yet drowne them; Soe the Tapers beamy eye
012.B46.018  Amorouslie twincklinge, beckens the giddy flie
012.B46.019  Yet burns his wings; and Such the Diuell is
012.B46.020  Scarce visitinge them, who are intirelie his
012.B46.021  When I beholde a streame, which from the Springe
012.B46.022  Doth with doubfull melodious murmuringe
012.B46.023  Or in a speechles slumber, calmely ride
012.B46.024  Hir wedded Channells bosome, and then chide
012.B46.025  And bend hir browes, and Swell if any bowe
012.B46.026  Doe but stoope downe to kisse her vpmost browe;
012.B46.027  Yet if hir often=gnawing kisses win [CW:om]
012.B46.028  The trayterous Bancke to gape, and let hir in [26v]
012.B46.029  She rusheth violently and doth diuorce
012.B46.030  Hir from hir Natiue and hir longe kept Course.
012.B46.031  And roares and braues it, and in gallant Scorne
012.B46.032  In flatteringe Eddies promisinge returne
012.B46.033  She floutes the Channell, who thenceforth is drie
012.B46.034  Then say I, that is shee, and this am I.
012.B46.035  Yet let not thy deepe bitternes begett
012.B46.036  Careles disdaine in me, for that will whett
012.B46.037  My minde to scorne, and, oh, Loue duld with paine
012.B46.038  Was ne're so wise, nor well arm'd, as Disdaine
012.B46.039  Then with eyes I shall survey thee and Spie
012.B46.040  Death in thy Cheekes and darknes in thine eye.
012.B46.041  Though hope breed faith and Loue, thus taught I shall.
012.B46.042  (As nations doe from Rome) from thy loue fall.
012.B46.043  My hate, shall outgrowe thine, and vtterlie
012.B46.044  I will renounce thy Dalliance, and when I
012.B46.045  Am the Recusant, in that Resolute state
012.B46.046  What hurts it me to be excommunicate?|
012.B46.0SS  Finis/[two clusters of ten grapes on either side of a P]
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