IDENTILIN$$  File F012H08 Harvard, Eng. 966.7\ff 87r-88r\M:GL\mf\P:DAF\o\5-12-92\C:JSC
012.H08.0HE  ELEGIE 4%5a%6.
012.H08.001  Oh lett mee not serue soe as those men serue,
012.H08.002  Whom hono%5rs%6 smoakes at once fatten & sterue,
012.H08.003  Poorely enricht with great mens words or lookes,
012.H08.004  Nor soe write my name in thy loueing bookes
012.H08.005  As those idolatrous flatterers, w%5ch%6 still
012.H08.006  Their Princes stile with many realmes fullfill
012.H08.007  Whence they noe tribute haue, & beare noe sway.
012.H08.008  Such seruices I offer as shall pay
012.H08.009  Themselues, I hate dead names: oh then lett mee
012.H08.010  ffauorite in ordinary, or noe fauorite bee:
012.H08.011  When my soule was in myne owne body sheath'd [CW:om]
012.H08.012  Nor yet by oathes betroth'd, nor kisses breathd [87v]
012.H08.013  Into my Purgatory, faithless thee,
012.H08.014  Thy heart seemd wax, & steele thy constancy:
012.H08.015  Soe careles flowers straw'd on the waters face
012.H08.016  The curled-whirle Pooles suck, smack & imbrace,
012.H08.017  Yet drowne them:  So the Tapers beamy eye
012.H08.018  Amorously twinckling beckens the giddy flye
012.H08.019  Yet burnes his winges; & such the Diuell is
012.H08.020  Scarce visiting them who are intirely his: 
012.H08.021  When I behould a streame, w%5ch%6 fro%M y%5e%6 springe
012.H08.022  Doth with doubtfull melodious murmuring, 
012.H08.023  Or in a speechless slumber calmely ride
012.H08.024  Her wedded channells bosome, & then chyde
012.H08.025  And bend her browes, & swell if any bough
012.H08.026  Doe but stoope downe to kisse her vpmost brow;
012.H08.027  Yet if her often gnawing kisses winn
012.H08.028  The traiterous banke to gape & lett her in,
012.H08.029  She rushes violently, & doth diuorce
012.H08.030  Her from her natiue, & her long-kept course,
012.H08.031  And roares, & braues it, & in gallant scorne
012.H08.032  In flattering eddyes promising returne
012.H08.033  Shee flouts the channell, who thenceforth is dry,
012.H08.034  Then say I that is shee, & this am I.
012.H08.035  Yet lett not thy deepe bitternes begett
012.H08.036  Careless dispaire in mee, for that will whett
012.H08.037  My minde to scorne; & oh loue dull'd w%5th%6 payne
012.H08.038  Was ne're so wise or well arm'd as disdaine. [CW:om]
012.H08.039  Then with new eyes I shall survay thee, & spy [88r]
012.H08.040  Death in thy cheekes, & darknes in thy eye.
012.H08.041  Though hope breede faith, & loue, thus taught I \shall
012.H08.042  As Nations doe from Rome, fro%M thy loue fall.
012.H08.043  My heart shall out-grow thyne, & vtterly
012.H08.044  I will renounce thy dalliance, & when I 
012.H08.045  Am that Recusant, in that resolute state
012.H08.046  What hurts it mee to bee Excomunicate?
012.H08.0SS  single fancy flourish  
012.H08.0$$  %1No ind.; 4 illegible majescules penned below HE; Beal foliation differs from mf.%2