IDENTILIN$$  File F015C08 Leconfield MS, ff.20v-22r\M:GL\P:GAS\o\8-12-92\C:JSC
015.C08.0HE  Elegie. 2%5d%6.
015.C08.001  Come, madam come, all rest my powers defye.
015.C08.002  Vntill I labour, I in labour lye.
015.C08.003  The foe oft times, hauing the foe in sight
015.C08.004  Is tyr'd with standing, though they neuer fight; [CW:Offt./]
015.C08.005  Of>>f<<, with that girdle, like heauens zone glistering, [21]
015.C08.006  Butt a farr fairer worlde encompassing.
015.C08.007  Vnpin that spangled brestplate, which you weare,
015.C08.008  That the eyes of busie fooles may be stopt there.
015.C08.009  Vnlace your self; for that harmonious chime
015.C08.010  Tells me from you, that nowe t'is your bed tyme.
015.C08.011  Of>>f<<, with that happie busk whome I enuye,
015.C08.012  That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
015.C08.013  Your gowne's going of, such bewteous state reueales,
015.C08.014  As when from flowrie meades, th'hills shadowe steales.
015.C08.015  O>>ff<< with your wyrie coronett, and showe
015.C08.016  The hairie dyadem w%5ch%6 on you dooth growe.
015.C08.017  Of>>f<<, with theise shooes, and then softlie treadde,
015.C08.018  In this loues hallowed Temple;  This soft bed.
015.C08.019  In such white robes, heauens Angells vs'd to bee
015.C08.020  Receau'd by men:  Thou Angell bringst w%5th%6 thee,
015.C08.021  A heauen like Mahometts Paradice; And though,
015.C08.022  Ill spiritts walke in white; Wee easelie knowe
015.C08.023  By this, theise Angells from an euill spright
015.C08.024  They sett our haires, butt theise our flesh vpright. [CW:Licence]
015.C08.025  Licence my rouing hands, and lett them goe [21v]
015.C08.026  Behinde, before, aboue, betweene, belowe.
015.C08.027  Oh my America, my newe found land;
015.C08.028  My Kingdome>>;<< safeliest, when with one man man'd.
015.C08.029  My myne of pretious stones; my Empire,
015.C08.030  Howe blest am I in this discouering thee?
015.C08.031  To enter into those bands, is to be free.
015.C08.032  There where my hand is sett, my seale shalbe>>.<<
015.C08.033  Full nakednes, all ioyes are due to thee.
015.C08.034  As soules vnbodied, bodies vncloat'hd must bee,
015.C08.035  To taste whole ioyes.  Gemms w%5ch%6 you weomen vse,
015.C08.036  Are as Atlantaes balls, cast in mens veiwes.
015.C08.037  That when a fooles eye lighteth on a gemme
015.C08.038  His earthlie soule maie couett theires not them>>.<<
015.C08.039  Like pictures or like bookes, gay couerings>>,<< made
015.C08.040  For lay men, are all weomen thus array'de?
015.C08.041  Themselues are mistique bookes, w%5ch%6 onlie wee,
015.C08.042  Whome theire imputed grace will dignifye,
015.C08.043  Must be reue'aled.  Then since I may knowe,
015.C08.044  As liberallie, as to a midwife showe. [CW:Thy#self.]
015.C08.045  Thy self; Cast all, yea this white linnen hence
015.C08.046  There is no pennance, much less innocence.
015.C08.047  To teach thee, I am naked first: Why than
015.C08.048  What needst thou, haue more couering then a man.|
015.C08.0SS  [om]
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