IDENTILIN$$  File F015B13 Additional 25707\ff.11r-v\GL\mf\P:GAS\o\7-18-91
015.B13.0HE  Elegya. 8.
015.B13.001  Come madame, come, all rest my powers defye
015.B13.002  untill I labour, I in labour lye,
015.B13.003  The foe oft times hauinge y%5e%6 foe in sight
015.B13.004  Is tyrd w%5th%6 standinge, though he never fight:
015.B13.005  off w%5th%6 that girdle, like heauens loue glisteringe
015.B13.006  But a far fayrer world encompassinge:
015.B13.007  vnpin y%5t%6 spangled brest-plate y%5t%6 you were
015.B13.008  That y%5e%6 eyes of busy fooles might be stopt there
015.B13.009  vnlace yo%5r%6 selfe for y%5t%6 harmonious chime
015.B13.010  Tells me from you y%5t%6 now tis full bed time
015.B13.011  off w%5th%6 that happy buske w%5ch%6 I envy
015.B13.012  That still can be, & still can stand so nigh.
015.B13.013  your gowne goinge >%Vof< such beutuous state reu>%Ve<ales
015.B13.014  As when from flowry meads hills sh[missing]owe steale[missing]
015.B13.015  Off w%5th%6 y%5r%6 wyery Coronet, & showe [11v]
015.B13.016  The %Yhapp%Z>hayry< diademe w%5ch%6 on you doth growe:
015.B13.017  Now off w%5th56 those shooes, & then safely tread
015.B13.018  In this loues hallowed temple this soft bed.
015.B13.019  In such white robes heauens Angells vsde to be
015.B13.020  Receau'd by men:  thou Angell bringst w%5th%6 thee.
015.B13.021  A heauen like mahomets paradice; and though
015.B13.022  Ill spirits walke in white, we easily know
015.B13.023  By this these Angells from an euell spright
015.B13.024  They set our hayres, but these our fleshe vpright
015.B13.025  Lycence my rouinge hands, & let them goe
015.B13.026  Behinde, before, aboue, betweene, belowe.
015.B13.027  oh my America? my new lou'd land
015.B13.028  my kingdome safest, when w%5th%6 one man man'd?
015.B13.029  my myne of precious stones, my Empery,
015.B13.030  How blest am I in thus discoueringe thee?
015.B13.031  To enter in those bonds is to be free,
015.B13.032  Then where my hand is set, my seale shall be.
015.B13.033  Full nakednes, all ioyes are due to thee
015.B13.034  As soules vnbodied, bodies vncloath'd must be
015.B13.035  To tast whole ioyes:  Gemms w%5ch%6 you woemen vse
015.B13.036  Are as Atlantaes balls cact->>cast< in mens vew>%Ve<s
015.B13.037  That when a fooles eye lighteth on a gemme
015.B13.038  His earthly soule might couet theirs, not them.
015.B13.039  Like pictures, or like bookes gay couerings made
015.B13.040  For lay men are all woemen thus aray'de
015.B13.041  Themselues are mistick bookes, w%5ch%6 only wee
015.B13.042  (whome their imputed grace will dignifye)
015.B13.043  must see reueal'd.  Then since I may know
015.B13.044  As liberally as to a midwife shew
015.B13.045  Thy selfe;  Cast all, yea this white linnen hence
015.B13.046  Heer is no pennance, much less innocence
015.B13.047  To teach thee, I am naked first, why than
015.B13.048  what need'st thou haue more coveringe then a man?
015.B13.0SS  [om]
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