IDENTILIN$$  File 015B47 Stowe 962, ff.82v-83.  G.L./ GAS/o/8-1-92
015.B47.0HE  An Elegie. or/ vndressinge of ons/ mistresse.|
015.B47.001  Come madame, come, all rest my powers defie
015.B47.002  Vntill in labour I in labour lie.
015.B47.003  the foe oft times hauinge the ffoe in sight
015.B47.004  Is tired w%5th%6 standinge, though they neuer fight.
015.B47.005  Offe w%5th%6 that girdle like heauens Zoens glisteringe,
015.B47.006  but a far fayrer world encompassinge.
015.B47.007  Vnpine that spangled breast plate w%5ch%6 you weare,
015.B47.008  that the eies of buisie fooles may be stoppt there.
015.B47.009  Vnlace yo%5r%6 self, for that harmonious chime,
015.B47.010  tells me from you y%5t%6 now 'tis yo%5r%6 bed time.
015.B47.011  Offe w%5th%6 that happie buske, whome I envie
015.B47.012  that still can be & still can stand soe nigh.
015.B47.013  Yo%5r%6 gownes goinge offe such beauteous state reveales,
015.B47.014  as where from flowrie meades, the hills shadow steales.
015.B47.015  Offe w%5th56 yo%5r%6 wirerie coronett, & shewe
015.B47.016  the hayrie diadems w%5ch%6 on you doe growe.
015.B47.017  Offe w%5th%6 these shoes, & then softly treade
015.B47.018  in this loues hallowed temple, this soft bedd.
015.B47.019  In such white robes * heauens angells vse to be
015.B47.020  receiued by men.  thou Angell bring'st w%5th%6 thee
015.B47.021  A heauen like mahomettes parradice; and though
015.B47.022  Ill spirites walke in white, we easely know
015.B47.023  by this these Angels from an ill spiritt,
015.B47.024  they set o%5r%6 hay*>r<es, but these, o%5r%6 flesh vpright.
015.B47.025  licence my roavinge handes & let them goe
015.B47.026  behinde, before, aboue, betweene below. [CW:om]
015.B47.027  Oh my America, my new found land, [83]
015.B47.028  my kingdom's safest, when w%5th%6 on man, man'd.
015.B47.029  my mine of p%5r%6tious stones, my Emperie,
015.B47.030  how blest am I in this, discoueringe thee,
015.B47.031  to enter into these bands is to be free.
015.B47.032  then where my hand is sett my soale shall be
015.B47.033  full nakednes, all ioyes are due to thee
015.B47.034  As soules vnboddies, bodies vnclothd must be
015.B47.035  to tast whole ioyes.  Gem%Mes w%5ch%6 you weomen vse
015.B47.036  free as Atlantas balls, cast in mens veiwes.
015.B47.037  Y%5t%6 when a fooles eye liteth on a gemm
015.B47.038  his earthly soule more couettes theires, not them
015.B47.039  like pictures, or like bookes gay Coueringes made
015.B47.040  for Lay=men, are all weomen thus arrayde
015.B47.041  them selues are mistique bookes w%5ch%6 %Jonly%K[Mvar:>%Jvnto%K.<] wee
015.B47.042  when theire imputed grace will dignifie
015.B47.043  must be reueald, then since I may knowe,
015.B47.044  as liberally as to a mid=wife showe
015.B47.045  thy selfe, Cast all yea this white lin%Men hence
015.B47.046  there is no pennance much les innocence.
015.B47.047  to teach thee I am naked first, why than
015.B47.048  what need'st thou haue more coueringe then a man.
015.B47.0SS  [om]
015.B47.0$$  %1Header in left margin beside ll. 1,2,&3: ;no ind%2.