IDENTILIN$$ F012.B26/ElServe BL Harley MS 3511 (ff. 41r-v)/ TJS/mf/6-26-91/cor/GAS/o/7-26-91 012.B26.0HE Elegy. 012.B26.001 O let me not serve as those men serve 012.B26.002 Which honours >%Vsmoakes< at once fattene & sterve! 012.B26.003 Poorely inricht w%5th%6 great mens words or looks; 012.B26.004 Nor so write my name in thy loving bookes, 012.B26.005 As those Idolatrous flatteres, w%5ch%6 still 012.B26.006 Their Princes stiles, w%5ch%6 many realmes fullfill 012.B26.007 Whence they no tribute haue & wheare no sway. 012.B26.008 Such services I offer as shall pay 012.B26.009 Themselves, I hate dead names: o then let me 012.B26.010 Favourite in ordinary, or no favourite be. 012.B26.011 When my soule was in her owne body sheath'd 012.B26.012 Nor yet by oaths betroth'd, nor kisses breath'd 012.B26.013 Into my purgatory faithlesse thee, 012.B26.014 Thy heart seem'd was & steele thy constancy. [CW: So 012.B26.015 So carelesse flowers strow'd on y%5e%6 waters face [41v 012.B26.016 The curled whirlepooles sucke, smacke, & imbrace, 012.B26.017 Yet drowne them: so the tapours beamy eye 012.B26.018 Amourously twinkling beckons the giddy fly 012.B26.019 Yet burns his wings: & such the devill is, 012.B26.020 Scarse visiting them that are intirely his. 012.B26.021 When I behold a streame w%5ch%6 from the spring 012.B26.022 Doth w%5th%6 melodious doubtfull murmering, 012.B26.023 Or in a speechlesse slumber calmely ride 012.B26.024 His->>Hir< we wedded channells bottom, & there chide 012.B26.025 And bend his boughs, & swell, if any bough 012.B26.026 Do but drop downe to kisse his->>hir< utmost brow: 012.B26.027 Yet if his->>hir< often knawing kisses winne 012.B26.028 The traitorous banks to gape, & let her in, 012.B26.029 She rusheth violently & doth divorse 012.B26.030 Her from her native, & her long kept course, 012.B26.031 And wears & braves it, & in gallant scorne, 012.B26.032 In flattering eddies promising returne, 012.B26.033 She flouts her channell w%5ch%6 thenceforth is dry; 012.B26.034 And say I that is shee, & this am I. 012.B26.035 Yet let not thy deepe bitternesse beget 012.B26.036 Carelesse dispaire in me, for that will whet 012.B26.037 My mind to scorne: & o love dull'd w%5th%6 paine 012.B26.038 Was nere so wise nor well arm'd as disdaine. 012.B26.039 Then w%5th%6 new eyes I shall survey thee & spy 012.B26.040 Death in thy cheeke & darknesse in thine eye. 012.B26.041 Though hope bred faith & love; thus taught I shall 012.B26.042 As nations doe from Rome, from thy Love fall. 012.B26.043 My hate shall out grow thine & utterly 012.B26.044 I will renounce thy delliance; & when I 012.B26.045 Am the recusant in that resolute state 012.B26.046 What hurts it me to be excom%Munitate->>excom%Municate. [CW: A 012.B26.0SSom 012.B26.0$$ line 21 ind 5sp;the x in wax in l. 14 is not crossed- -it looks like an s; GAS--must record it as an s