IDENTILIN$$  F050O34  Rawl. poet. 117\ff.220v-r (rev)\GL\P:EWS\o\6-2-92\C:JSC
050.O34.0HE  %XMiddle age.
050.O34.001  Noe springe, nor summer bewtye hath such a grace
050.O34.002  As I haue seen, in one Autumnall face
050.O34.003  yonge bewtyes force yo%5r%6 loue, and thats a rape
050.O34.004  This doth but counsell %Ywhat%Z >yet< you cannot scape
050.O34.005  If tweare a shame to loue, here tw'ere no shame
050.O34.006  Affeccion heare takes reverences name.
050.O34.007  wear hir first yeares hir golden age, %Ythats%Z >tis< trewe.
050.O34.008  But nowe shees gold ofte tryed, and eu%5r%6 newe
050.O34.009  That was hir scorchinge, hir inflaminge tyme
050.O34.010  This is hir habitable tropicke clyme.
050.O34.011  Fayre eyes?  who seekes more heate then comes from hence
050.O34.012  He in a fever wisheth pestilence
050.O34.013  Call not these wrinckles graues, yf graues they >%Ybe%Z<#weare
050.O34.014  They are loues graues, or he is else no wheare
050.O34.015  And (heare inshrined) he doth as closely sitt
050.O34.016  vowde to his trench, (as to an anchoritt.).
050.O34.017  And heare %Yti**s%Z#>till< %Yhir%Z#>hers< (w%5ch%6 must be his) death come
050.O34.018  He doth not digge a graue, but build a tombe,
050.O34.019  And though, he somtyme soiorne otherwhere
050.O34.020  In progresse, yet his standinge howse is heare
050.O34.021  Hear wheare still eueninge is, not noone, or night
050.O34.022  wher no voluptiousnes is, but all delight| [CW:om]
050.O34.023  In all hir wordes, vnto all %Yhearers%Z >was< fitt. [220r (rev)]
050.O34.024  you may at revells, you may at counsell sitt,
050.O34.025  this >is< loues tymber, youth is vnderwood
050.O34.026  Where he (like wyne in Iune) enrageth blood
050.O34.027  W%5ch%6 then comes seasonoblest, when ou%5r%6 tast
050.O34.028  and appetite to other thinges is past
050.O34.029  Xerxes strange %YIdean%Z >Lydian< loue, the plantone tree
050.O34.030  was loude for age, none beinge so large as shee
050.O34.031  Or else because beinge yonge, nature did blesse
050.O34.032  Hir youth w%5th%6 ages glorye, barrennesse.
050.O34.033  If thinges longe sought for please, age is a thinge
050.O34.034  W%5ch%6 wee are fiftye yeares accompassing
050.O34.035  If->>Of< transitorye thinges w%5ch%6 sone decaye
050.O34.036  Age must be louelyest at the latest daye
050.O34.037  But name not winter faces, whose skins slacke
050.O34.038  Lanke as an vnthriftes purse, %Ybut%Z >or< a soules sack
050.O34.039  whose eyes seeke light w%5th%6in, for all here %Yas%Z >is< shade
050.O34.040  Whose mouthes are holes rather worne out, then made
050.O34.041  Whose euerye tooth, to a seuerall place is gone
050.O34.042  To vexe their soules at the resurreccion.
050.O34.043  Name not these livinge-deaths heddes vnto me
050.O34.044  ffor these not antiens, but Antiques bee
050.O34.045  I hate extreames, yit had I rather staye 
050.O34.046  w%5th%6 toombes then Cradles, to weare out the daye
050.O34.047  Since such loues naturall lation, is %Ymy#skill%Z >may still<
050.O34.048  My loue descende, and iorney downe the hill.
050.O34.049  Not pantinge after growinge bewtyes soe
050.O34.050  I shall ebbe one w%5th%6 those, that homeward goe
050.O34.0SS  [om]
050.O34.0$$  %1No ind.; orig. ff. = 210; GAS & JSC decided 4-10-96 that 
the shapes of letters in the corrections indicate they all are scribal, with 
the possible exception of l.47%2