IDENTILIN$$  File F017H050  Harvard, Eng. 966.4\f 145r-v\M:G.L.\mf\P:TLP\o\5-7-92\C:JSC  
017.H05.0HE  Elegy.
017.H05.001  Marry, and loue thy fflavia, for she
017.H05.002  hath all thinges, whereby others beautious be;
017.H05.003  for though her eyes be small, her mouth is greate;
017.H05.004  though they be Ivory, yet her teeth are Iette;
017.H05.005  though they be dim%Me, yet she is light ynough,
017.H05.006  and though her harsh haire fall, her skinne is tough:
017.H05.007  What though her Cheekes be yellowe?  her haire is redde,
017.H05.008  and giue her thine, she hath a Maiden-head.
017.H05.009  These thinges are beauties Elements, where these
017.H05.010  meete in one, that one must as perfect please.
017.H05.011  yf red and white and each good quality
017.H05.012  be in thy wench, n'ere aske where it doth ly.
017.H05.013  In buyinge thinges perfum'd, we aske yf there
017.H05.014  be muske and Amber in it, but not where.
017.H05.015  Though all her partes be not in th'vsuall place,
017.H05.016  she hath yett an Anagram%Me of a good face.
017.H05.017  yf we might put the letters but one way,
017.H05.018  in that leane Dearth of words, what cold you say?
017.H05.019  When by the Gam-ut some Musitians make
017.H05.020  a perfect songe, others will vndertake
017.H05.021  by the same Gam-vt, chang'd, to equall it.
017.H05.022  Thinges simply good can neuer be vnfitt.
017.H05.023  she is faire as any, yf all be like her,
017.H05.024  and yf none, then she is singular.
017.H05.025  All Loue is wonder, yf we iustly doe
017.H05.026  account her wonderfull, why not louely too?
017.H05.027  Loue built on beauty, soone, as beauty dyes;
017.H05.028  chuse this face, changd' by no deformityes.
017.H05.029  women are all like angells, the fayre be
017.H05.030  like those that fell to worst; but such as she, [CW:om]
017.H05.031  like to good Angells, nothinge can impaire, [145v]
017.H05.032  t'is lesse greife to be foule, then t'haue byn faire.
017.H05.033  for one nights Reuells, silke and gold we chuse,
017.H05.034  but in longe iourneyes, cloth and leather vse.
017.H05.035  Beauty is barren oft, best husbandes say,
017.H05.036  There is best land, where there is fowlest way.
017.H05.037  Oh, what a Soveraigne Plaister will she be,
017.H05.038  yf thy past sinnes haue taught thee Iealousy?
017.H05.039  Here needs no spyes, nor Eunuches, her com%Mitt
017.H05.040  safe to thy foe, yea to a Marmositt.
017.H05.041  When Belgia's Citties the foule Countrey drownes, 
017.H05.042  that durty foulnes guards and armes the townes:
017.H05.043  Soe doth her face guard her; and soe for thee
017.H05.044  who, oh, forc't by busines absent oft must be,
017.H05.045  she whose face (like cloudes) makes day to seeme night,
017.H05.046  who, mightier then the Sea makes Moores seeme white.
017.H05.047  who (though seven yeares she in the stewes had layd)
017.H05.048  a Nunnery durst receiue and thinke a Maide.
017.H05.049  and though in child-byrths labour she did ly,
017.H05.050  midwiues will sweare, 'twas but a Tympany;
017.H05.051  whome, yf she accuse her selfe, I creditt lesse,
017.H05.052  then Witches, w%5ch%6 impossibles confesse.
017.H05.053  whome Dildoes, bedstaues, and her veluett glasse
017.H05.054  would be as loth to touch, as Ioseph was,
017.H05.055  One like none, and likd' of none fitte%Jst%K>[var:~r]< %Jw%Kere,>[var:t~]<,
017.H05.056  for thinges in fashion euery man will weare.|
017.H05.0SS  [om] three cloverleafs arranged as an inverted triangle
017.H05.0$$  No ind.