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014.C04.0HE  Elegia.
014.C04.001  Till I haue peace %Ywist%Z>with< her, warre other men,
014.C04.002  And when I haue peace, shall I haue thee then?
014.C04.003  All other warrs are scrupulous, onely thou,
014.C04.004  O faire free citty, maist thy selfe alow
014.C04.005  To any one: in Flanders who can tell,
014.C04.006  Whether the master presse, or men rebell?
014.C04.007  Onely wee know y%5t%6, which all Ideots say, 
014.C04.008  They beare most blowes, which come to part the fray.
014.C04.009  ffrance in her lunaticke giddinesse did hate,
014.C04.010  Euer our men, yea, and our god of late.
014.C04.011  Yet shee relyes vpon our Angells well,
014.C04.012  Which nere returne noe more, then they, that fell.
014.C04.013  Sicke ireland is with a strange warre possest,
014.C04.014  Like to an ague, now raging, now at rest.
014.C04.015  Which time will cure, yet it must doe her good, 
014.C04.016  If shee were purgd, and her head veine let blood: [30v]
014.C04.017  And Midaes ioyes our spanish iorneys giue,
014.C04.018  Wee touch all gold, but find noe food to liue.
014.C04.019  And I should bee in that hot parching clime
014.C04.020  To dust, and ashes turnd before my time:
014.C04.021  To mew me in a shippe, mee to enthrall
014.C04.022  Me in a prison, that were like to fall,
014.C04.023  Or in a Cloyster, saue, that there men dwell
014.C04.024  In a calme hauen, heere in a swaggring hell:
014.C04.025  Long voyages are long consumptions,
014.C04.026  And shipps are carts for executions,
014.C04.027  Yea, they are deaths: ist not all one tofly
014.C04.028  Into a nother world, as tis to dy?
014.C04.029  Heere let me warre, in these armes let me ly,
014.C04.030  Heere let me parly, batter, bleede, and dy:
014.C04.031  Thine armes imprison mee, and mine armes thee,
014.C04.032  Thy heart thy ransome is, take mine for mee.
014.C04.033  Other men warre, y%5t%6 they may rest againe,
014.C04.034  But wee will rest, that wee may fight againe:
014.C04.035  Those warres the ignorant, these the experienced loue:
014.C04.036  There wee are allwayes vnder, here aboue.
014.C04.037  Their engins a farre of, doe breed true feare,
014.C04.038  Neere thrusts, pickes, stappes: ne bullets hurt not heere:
014.C04.039  There lyes are wrongs, heere safe vprightly ly,
014.C04.040  There men, kill men, weele make one by and by:
014.C04.041  Thou nothing, I not halfe soe much shall doe,
014.C04.042  In those warres, as those may which from vs two
014.C04.043  Shall spring: Thousands wee see, which trauell not
014.C04.044  To warres, but stay swords, weapons, armes, and shot
014.C04.045  To make at home; And shall not I doe then,
014.C04.046  More glorious service, staying to make men?
014.C04.0SS  I D.  
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