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020.C08.0HE  Elegie 13.
020.C08.001  Whoe euer loues, if hee doe not propose
020.C08.002  The right true end of loue; He is one w%5ch%6 goes
020.C08.003  To Sea, for nothing butt to make him sick.
020.C08.004  And loue is a beare whelpe borne, if wee ouerlick
020.C08.005  Our loue, and force itt new strange shapes to take
020.C08.006  Wee err, and of a lump, a Monster make.
020.C08.007  Were not a calf a Monster, that were growne
020.C08.008  ffac'd like a man, though better then his owne?
020.C08.009  Perfection is in vnitie; Preferr
020.C08.010  One Woman first, and then one thing in hir [CW:I,]
020.C08.011  I, when I value golde, may thinck vpon [33v]
020.C08.012  the Ducktillnes, the Application,
020.C08.013  The wholsomnes, the Ingenuitie,
020.C08.014  ffrom rust, from soile, from fyer, euer free>>,<<
020.C08.015  Butt if I loue itt, tis' because t'is made
020.C08.016  By our new nature, Vse, the soule of Trade.
020.C08.017  All theise in weomen, wee might thinck vpon
020.C08.018  (yf weomen had them) butt yett loue butt one.
020.C08.019  Can men more iniure women, then to say
020.C08.020  The>>y<< loue them for that, by w%5ch%6 they are not they?
020.C08.021  Makes virtue woman? must I coole my blood
020.C08.022  Till I both bee, and finde one wise and good?
020.C08.023  Maie barren Angells loue so.  Butt if wee
020.C08.024  Make loue to woman, Virtue is not shee.
020.C08.025  As bewtie is not, nor wealth; He that straies thus
020.C08.026  ffrom her, to hers, is more Adulterous,
020.C08.027  Then if he tooke her maide.  Search euerie Spheare
020.C08.028  And firmament, Our Cupid is not there,
020.C08.029  Hee is an Infernall God, and vnder ground
020.C08.030  W%5th%6 Pluto dwells, where gould and fire abounde>>.<< [CW:Men|]
020.C08.031  Men to such gods theire sacrificing coles [34r]
020.C08.032  Did not in Altars lay, butt pitts and holes.
020.C08.033  Althoe, wee see Celestiall bodies mooue
020.C08.034  Aboue the earth, the Earth we till and loue>>.<<
020.C08.035  So, wee her Ayres contemplate, wordes and hart,
020.C08.036  And vertues, butt wee loue the Centrique part.
020.C08.037  Nor is the soule more worthie, or more fitt
020.C08.038  ffor loue, then this, As infinite as itt>>.<<
020.C08.039  Butt in attaining this desir'd place,
020.C08.040  How much they straie, that sett out att the face.
020.C08.041  The haire a forrest is of ambushes,
020.C08.042  Of springs, snares, fetters, and manacles.
020.C08.043  The browe becalmes vs, when t'is smooth and plaine,
020.C08.044  And when t'is wrincl'd, shiwracks vs againe,
020.C08.045  Smoothe, t'is a Paradice, where wee would haue
020.C08.046  Immortall staie, and wrincled', t'is our graue.
020.C08.047  The nose, like to the first Meridian runns
020.C08.048  Not twixt an East and West, butt twixt 2. sonnes.
020.C08.049  Itt leaues a Cheeke,->>>Checke,<< a rosie Hemisphere
020.C08.050  On either side, and then directs vs where [CW:Vpon]
020.C08.051  Vpon the Ilands, fortunate wee fall  [34v]
020.C08.052  (Not faint Canarie, butt Ambrosiall)
020.C08.053  Her swelling lips: To w%5ch%6, when wee are come
020.C08.054  Wee anchor there, and thinck our selues att home.
020.C08.055  ffor they seeme all.  Theire Syrens songs, and there
020.C08.056  Wise Delphique Orcles, doe fill the eare.
020.C08.057  Then in a Creeke, whe>>re<< chosen pearles doe swell
020.C08.058  The Remora, her cle>>av<<ing tongue doothe dwell.
020.C08.059  Theise, and the glorious promontorie, her chinne
020.C08.060  O'repast; And the streight Hellispont betweene
020.C08.061  The Sestos and Abidoes of her brests,
020.C08.062  Not of twoe louers, butt twoe loues, t>>he nests<<[traceover],
020.C08.063  Succeeds a boundles Sea, butt that thine eye
020.C08.064  Some Iland moles, maie scattred there descrye.
020.C08.065  And sailing towards her India, in that waye
020.C08.066  Shall att hir Atlantique nauell staye;
020.C08.067  Though thence the currant bee thy Pilott made,
020.C08.068  Yett ere thou bee, where thou wouldst bee, embayde'
020.C08.069  Thou shalt vpon, an other fforrest sett,
020.C08.070  Where some doe shipwrack, and no farther gett [CW:When.|]
020.C08.071  When thou art there, consider what this chase [35r]
020.C08.072  Mispent, by thy begining at the face.
020.C08.073  Rather sett out belowe: Practise my Art
020.C08.074  Some Symetrie, the foot hath w%5th%6 that part:
020.C08.075  Which thou doost seeke, And is thy map for that
020.C08.076  Louelie enough to stopp, butt not stay att:
020.C08.077  Least subiect to disguise, and change itt is,
020.C08.078  Men saie, the Deuill, neuer can change his.
020.C08.079  Itt is the Emblem, which, hath figured,
020.C08.080  ffirmnes; T'is the first part, that comes to bed.
020.C08.081  Ciuilitie, wee see, refin'd the Kisse
020.C08.082  Which, att the face begone, Transplanted is
020.C08.083  Since to the hand, since to the Imperiall knee,
020.C08.084  Now att the Papall foot delights to bee.
020.C08.085  If Kings thinck that, the nearer waie, and doe
020.C08.086  Rise from the foote, louers maie doe >>s<<o to>>o<<.
020.C08.087  ffor as free Spheares mooue faster farr then can
020.C08.088  Birds, whome the ayre resists, so may that man.
020.C08.089  Which goes this empie and Ethereall waie,
020.C08.090  Then if att bewties Elements he staie.
020.C08.091  Rich nature hath in Woman wiselie made
020.C08.092  Twoe purses and theire mouths auerslie laid. [CW:They.]
020.C08.093  They then which to the lower tribute owe
020.C08.094  That waie, w%5ch%6 that Exchequer lookes, must goe.
020.C08.095  He w%5ch%6 dooth not, his error is as great
020.C08.096  As whoe by glister gaue the stomack meat.
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