IDENTILIN$$ File F012H03 Harvard, Eng. 966.1\f.21r-v\M:GL\mf\P:DF\o\5-8-92\C:JSC 012.H03.0HE Elegie.| 012.H03.001 Oh let me not serue soe, as those men serue 012.H03.002 whome honors smokes at mee[var:>>once<<] fatten and sterue. 012.H03.003 Poorely enricht' with great mens wordes, and lookes 012.H03.004 Nor soe write my name in thy loueinge bookes 012.H03.005 As those Idolatrous Flatterers, which still 012.H03.006 Their Princes stiles with many Realmes fullfill 012.H03.007 Whence thy not tribute haue, and where noe sway 012.H03.008 Suche seruices I offer, as shall pa%Ay 012.H03.009 Themselues I hate dead names. oh then let me 012.H03.010 Fauorite in ordinary, or noe Fauorite bee 012.H03.011 when my soule was in mine owne body sheathed 012.H03.012 Nor yet by breathe[var:>>oaths<<] betrothed, nor kisses breathed 012.H03.013 Into %Ythy%Zmy Purgatorie, faithelesse thee 012.H03.014 Thy harte seemd' wax, and Steel thy Constancye 012.H03.015 Soe carelesse floores strewd' in the waters face 012.H03.016 The curled whirlepooles, sucke, smake, and embrace 012.H03.017 Yet drowne them. Soe the Tapers beamie eye 012.H03.018 Amourously twincklinge, beckons the giddy fly 012.H03.019 Yet burnes his winges; and suche the Deuill is 012.H03.020 Scarce visittinge those whoe are entyrely his 012.H03.021 When I behold a Streame w%5c%6h from the Springe 012.H03.022 Dothe with doubtfull melodious murmeringe 012.H03.023 Or in a Speechlesse slumber calmely hide 012.H03.024 Her wedded Channells bosome and there chyde 012.H03.025 And bend her bowes->>browes< and swell of any bowe 012.H03.026 Doe but stoope downe to kisse her vpmoste browe [CW:om] 012.H03.027 But if her often gnawinge kisses win [21v] 012.H03.028 The Tratorous bankes, to gape and let her in 012.H03.029 She rusheth violently, and dothe deuorce 012.H03.030 Her from her natiue, and her longe kept coarse 012.H03.031 And roares and braues it, and in a gallant scorne 012.H03.032 In flatteringe edicts[var.>>eddies<<] promisinge returne 012.H03.033 Shee floots her Channells, whoe thenceforth is dry 012.H03.034 Then said I that is shee, and this am I.| 012.H03.035 But lett not thy deep bitternesse for[var:>>be<<]gett 012.H03.036 Carelesse dispaire in me, for that will whett 012.H03.037 My minde to scorne; and (Oh) loue dulld' with paine 012.H03.038 was ne're soe wise or well armd' as disdaine. 012.H03.039 The with new eyes I shall suruey >thee< and spie 012.H03.040 Deathe in thy Cheekes, and darknesse in thyne eye 012.H03.041 Thoughe hope breed faith, and loue this[var.>>thus<<] taught I shall 012.H03.042 As nations doe from Rome, from thy loue fall 012.H03.043 My hate shall or'egrowe thyne, and vtterly 012.H03.044 I will renounce thy dalliance, and when I 012.H03.045 Am the recusant in that resolute state 012.H03.046 What hurt's i[var:>>t<<]n me to be excommunicate.| 012.H03.0SS I. D.| 012.H03.0$$ %1No ind.; 2nd-hand corrections in ll. 2 12 32 35 41 46%2; St. ms. 141. %1penciled in LM op. HE%2