IDENTILIN$$ File X017O20 Eng poet e.99\ff.15v-16v\GL\mf\P:EWS\o\6-1-92\C:JSC 017.O20.0HE Elegie. 017.O20.001 Marry, and loue thy Flauia, for Shee 017.O20.002 Hath all thinges, whereby others beauteous bee, 017.O20.003 For though her Eyes be small, her mouth is greate, 017.O20.004 Though they be Iuorye, yett her teeth be ieate. 017.O20.005 Though they be dimme, yett she is light enough, 017.O20.006 And though her harsh hayre fall, her skin is rough. 017.O20.007 What though her cheekes be yellowe, her hayre is redd, 017.O20.008 Giue her thyne, and she hath a Maydenhead. 017.O20.009 These thinges are beautyes Elements, when these 017.O20.010 Meete in One, that One must as perfect please. [CW:om] 017.O20.011 Yf red and whyte, and each good qualitye [16] 017.O20.012 Bee in thy Wench, nere aske, where it doth lye; 017.O20.013 In buying thinges perfumd, wee aske if there 017.O20.014 Bee Muske, and Amber in ytt, but not where. 017.O20.015 Though all her parts bee not in the vsuall Place, 017.O20.016 She hath an Anagram of a Good face. 017.O20.017 Yf wee might put the letters but One way 017.O20.018 In the leane dearth of letters, what cold wee say? 017.O20.019 When by the Gamut some Musitions make 017.O20.020 A perfect Song, Others will vndertake 017.O20.021 By the same Gamut chang'd to equall yt. 017.O20.022 Thinges simply good, can neuer be vnfitt. 017.O20.023 She ys as fayre >%Vas< any, if all be like her, 017.O20.024 And if none bee, the She is Singularr. 017.O20.025 All loue is wonder, if wee iustly doe 017.O20.026 Accompt her wonderfull, why not louely too? 017.O20.027 Loue built on Beauty, sone as beauty dyes. 017.O20.028 Chuse thys face, changd by no Deformityes. 017.O20.029 Woemen are all like Angells; the fayre bee 017.O20.030 Like those w%5ch%6 fall to worse; But such as Shee 017.O20.031 Like to Good Angells, nothing ca%M impayre: 017.O20.032 Tis lesse Griefe to be foule, then to haue bin fayre. 017.O20.033 For One Nights Revells, silke and golde wee chuse, 017.O20.034 But in long Iorneyes cloth, and leather vse. 017.O20.035 Beauty is barren oft. Best husbands say, 017.O20.036 There is best land, where there is foulest way. 017.O20.037 Oh what a soueraigne Playster will she bee, 017.O20.038 Yf thy Past sinnes haue taught Thee Ielosee. 017.O20.039 Here needes no Spyes, nor Eunuches; Her Committ [CW:om] 017.O20.040 Safe to hys foes: yea to a Marmositt. [16v] 017.O20.041 When Belgiaes Cittyes, the round countryes drowne, 017.O20.042 That durty foulenes, guardes, and armes the Towne. 017.O20.043 So doth her face guard her; And so for Thee, 017.O20.044 W%5ch%6 forcd by busines, absent oft must bee. 017.O20.045 She whose face, like Cloudes, turnes the Day to Night, 017.O20.046 Who mightyer then the Sea, makes Moores seeme white; 017.O20.047 Who though seuen yeares, she in the Stewes had layd, 017.O20.048 A Nunnerye durst receaue, and thincke a Mayd, 017.O20.049 And though in Childbirths labor she did lye, 017.O20.050 Midwifes wold sweare t'weare but a Timpanye, 017.O20.051 Whom, if she accuse herselfe, I creditt lesse, 017.O20.052 Then witches, w%5ch%6 Impossibles confesse. 017.O20.053 Whom Dildoes, Bedstaues, and her veluett Glasse 017.O20.054 Wold bee as loth to touch, as Ioseph was: 017.O20.055 One like none, and likd of none fittest weare, 017.O20.056 For thinges in fashion euery ma%M will weare. 017.O20.0SSom 017.O20.0$$ El.2. p.66. %1in 2nd hand left of HE,%2 G. I.167 %1at right [G=Grosart]; no ind; modern foliation at bottom = 19v-20v%2