IDENTILIN$$ F021B30 BL Harley 4064 (ff. 238v-40)/TJS/mf/7-5-91/cor/GAS/o/7-26,27-91; GAS,JSC\mf\11-9-98
021.B30.0HE %XElegie
021.B30.001 Since shee must goe and I must mourne; come night
021.B30.002 environ me w%5th%6 darknes, whilst I write:
021.B30.003 shadow that hell vnto me, w%5ch%6 alone,
021.B30.004 I am to suffer, when my loue is gone,
021.B30.005 Alas thie darkest magick cannot doe it.
021.B30.006 tho%5u%6 and great hell to boot are shadowes to it
021.B30.007 should %1Cinthia%2 quitte thee, %1Venus%2 and each starr 
021.B30.008 it would not forme one thought, darke as myne \are
021.B30.009 I could lend thee obscurenes now, and say
021.B30.010 out of my selfe, there should be no more day.
021.B30.011 such is alredy, my felt want of sight,
021.B30.012 did not the fires w%5th%6in me force a light.
021.B30.013 O%C %1Loue%2 that fire and darknes should be mixt
021.B30.014 or to thie triumphes soe strang torm%5tes%6 fixt.
021.B30.015 Is it because, thy selfe art blynde, that wee
021.B30.016 thy martyres, must no more each other see?
021.B30.017 Or takest thou pride to breake vs on thie wheele?
021.B30.018 and view ould Chaos in the paynes wee feele?
021.B30.019 or haue wee left vndone, some mutuall ryte?
021.B30.020 through holie feare, that merrits thie despight?
021.B30.021 No no the fault was myne, impute it me:
021.B30.022 or rather to conspiring destinye
021.B30.023 w%5ch%6 (since I loud for forme before) decreed.
021.B30.024 that I should suffer when I loue indeed
021.B30.025 And therefore, now, sooner then I can say
021.B30.026 I saw the golden fruite, tis wrapt away: [CW:[%1trimmed%2]]
021.B30.027 Or as I had watch'd one drop, in a vast streame [f.239]
021.B30.028 and I left welthie onlie in a dreame
021.B30.029 Yet %1Loue%2, thou art blynder then thy selfe, in this  
021.B30.030 to vexe my doue like frind, for myne amisse,
021.B30.031 And where my owne glad truth might expiate
021.B30.032 thie wroth to make %Ymy%Z>%5her%6< fortunes run my fate!
021.B30.033 soe blindest iustice doth when favorites fall
021.B30.034 strike then their house, their frinds, their followers all
021.B30.035 wast not enough that thou didst dart thie fires
021.B30.036 into our blouds informynge our desires?
021.B30.037 and madst vs sigh and pant, and glow and burne
021.B30.038 and then thie selfe into our flame didst turne
021.B30.039 wast not enough, that thou didst hazard vs 
021.B30.040 to pathes in loue soe darke soe dangerous
021.B30.041 and those so ambusht round w%5th%6 houshould spies
021.B30.042 and over all the towred husbands eyes.
021.B30.043 That flam'd w%5th%6 oylie sweet of Ielousie?
021.B30.044 yet went wee not still on, w%5th%6 constancye?
021.B30.045 haue not wee kept our guards, like spie on spie
021.B30.046 had correspondency when the foe stood by?
021.B30.047 Stolen (more to sweeteen them) our many blisses
021.B30.048 of meetings conference, embracem%5tes%6 kisses,
021.B30.049 Shadow'd w%5th%6 negligence our most respects
021.B30.050 varyed thie language through all dyalects
021.B30.051 of beckes, winckes, lookes, and often vnderbords
021.B30.052 speake dyalogues, w%5th%6 o%5r%6 feet, far from o%5r%6 words? [CW:Haue#wee]
021.B30.053 Haue wee prou'd all these secrets of thie art  [f.239v]
021.B30.054 yea thy pale coullors inward as thie hart.
021.B30.055 and after all the passed purgatory
021.B30.056 must sad divorse make vs the vulgars story?
021.B30.057 first let o%5r%6 eyes be ryvited quite through
021.B30.058 o%5r%6 turning braynes and both o%5r%6 lipps grow too
021.B30.059 Let o%5r%6 armes claspe like Iuy, and our feare
021.B30.060 freeze vs togeither, that wee may stick heare
021.B30.061 Till fortune that would ryve vs, w%5th%6 thee deed
021.B30.062 strayne her eyes open; and it make them bleed.
021.B30.063 ffor loue it cannot bee, whom hetherto
021.B30.064 I haue accus'd, would such a mischeife doe
021.B30.065 And fortune, thou art not worth my least exclayme
021.B30.066 and plague enough tho%5u%6 art in thyne owne shame
021.B30.067 Doe thy great worst; my frind and I haue armes.
021.B30.068 (though not against thie stroakes) against thie harmes
021.B30.069 Rend vs assunder; thou canst nere devide
021.B30.070 o%5r%6 bodies soe, but still o%5r%6 soules are tyed;
021.B30.071 And wee cann loue by lyce%Ms still and guiftes.
021.B30.072 and thoughts and dreames, loue never wanted shifts
021.B30.073 I will not looke vppon the quickning sun
021.B30.074 but streight her beutye to my sence shall run
021.B30.075 The Ayre shall note her soft, the fyer most pure,
021.B30.076 water suggest her cleare, and the earth sure.
021.B30.077 Tymes shall not loose o%5r%6 passages, the spring
021.B30.078 shall tell, how fresh o%5r%6 loue was in begininge
021.B30.079 The summer how it ripened in the Eare
021.B30.080 and Autume what o%5r%6 goulden harvest weare [CW:The Winter
021.B30.081 The Winter Ile not thinck on to spight thee: [240
021.B30.082 But count it alost season, so shall shee
021.B30.083 And (dearest frind) since wee must p%Pte, drowne night
021.B30.084 w%5th%6 hope of daie, burdens well borne are light|
021.B30.085 though coald and darknes longer hang somewhere
021.B30.086 yet Phebus, equallie, lights all the spheare.
021.B30.087 And what he cannot in like porc%Mons pay
021.B30.088 the world yet ioyes, in Masse, and so, wee may.
021.B30.089 be then yo%5r%6 fayrest selfe and let me woe;
021.B30.090 wyn on yo%5r%6 helth, yo%5r%6 youth, yo%5r%6 beauty so,
021.B30.091 declare yo%5r%6 selfe, base fortunes enimye
021.B30.092 no lesse by yo%5r%6 contempt then constancy
021.B30.093 That I may grow enamored on yo%5r%6 mynde
021.B30.094 when myne owne thoughts I there reflected finde
021.B30.095 ffor this to comfort of my deare I vowe
021.B30.096 my deeds shall still be what my words are nowe
021.B30.097 The poles shall move to teach me eare I start,
021.B30.098 and when I change my loue, Ile change my hart
021.B30.099 Nay if I wax but could in my desire
021.B30.100 thinck heauen hath moco%Mn lost, and the World>%Ys%Z< fyer
021.B30.101 Much more I could, but many wordes haue made
021.B30.102 that oft suspected w%5ch%6 men would P%Pswade
021.B30.103 Take therefore all, in this, I loue so true
021.B30.104 as I will never look for lesse in yo%5u.%6|
021.B30.0SSom
021.B30.0$$ ll. 1-104; even numbered lines ind; this guy has n's that look like u's; 
GAS--poem number ".21." beside l.1 in LM(it's the 21st poem in this section)%2