IDENTILIN$$  File F012H050 Harvard, Eng.966.4\f.149r-v\M:GL\x\P:TLP\o\5-6-92\C:JSC
012.H05.0HE  Elegy.
012.H05.001  Oh let me not serue soe, as those men serue,
012.H05.002  whome honours smokes at once fatten and sterue,
012.H05.003  poorely enritchd' with greate mens wordes or lookes;
012.H05.004  nor soe write my name in thy lovinge bookes,
012.H05.005  as those Idolatrous flatterers, w%5ch%6 still
012.H05.006  theire Princes stiles with many Realmes fullfill,
012.H05.007  whence they no tribute haue, and where no sway;
012.H05.008  Such services I offer, as shall pay
012.H05.009  themselues, I hate dead names; oh then let me
012.H05.010  ffavorite in Ordinary, or no ffavorite be.
012.H05.011  when my soule was in her owne body sheathd',
012.H05.012  nor yet by oathes betrothd', nor kisses breathd'
012.H05.013  into my Purgatory, ffayth-lesse Thee,
012.H05.014  thy hart seem'd waxe, and steele thy constancy.
012.H05.015  Soe careles flowers strow'd on the waters face,
012.H05.016  the curled whirlepooles sucke, smacke, and embrace,
012.H05.017  yet drowne them; soe the Tapers beamy eye
012.H05.018  amorously twincklinge, beckens the giddy fly,
012.H05.019  yet burnes his winges; and such the Deuill is,
012.H05.020  scarse visitinge them who are entirely his.
012.H05.021  when I behold a streame w%5ch%6 from the springe
012.H05.022  doth, with a doubtfull melodious murmuringe,
012.H05.023  or in a speecheles slumber calmely ride
012.H05.024  her wedded channells bosome, and then chide,
012.H05.025  and bend her browes, and swell; yf any bowe->>bowgh<
012.H05.026  doe but stoope downe to kisse her vpmost browe;
012.H05.027  yet yf her often gnawinge kisses, winne
012.H05.028  the trayterous banke, to gape and let her in,
012.H05.029  she rushes violently, and doth divorce
012.H05.030  her from her natiue and her longe kept course,
012.H05.031  and roares, and braues it, and in gallant scorne [CW:om]
012.H05.032  in flatteringe Eddyes promisinge returne, [149v]
012.H05.033  she floutes the channell, who thence-forth is dry;
012.H05.034  Then sayd I, This is shee, and this am I:
012.H05.035  yet let not this deepe bitternes begett
012.H05.036  careles despayre in me, for that will whett
012.H05.037  my mind to scorne, and oh, loue dulld' with paine
012.H05.038  was ne're so wise and well arm'd as disdayne.
012.H05.039  Then with newe eyes I shall survay thee, and spy
012.H05.040  death in thy cheekes, and darkenes in thine eye,
012.H05.041  Though hope breede fayth and loue, thus taught I shall,
012.H05.042  as Nao%Mns doe from Rome, from thy loue fall;
012.H05.043  my hate shall out-growe thine, and vtterly
012.H05.044  I will renounce thy Dallyance, and when I
012.H05.045  am the Recusant in that resolute state,
012.H05.046  what hurts it me to b' excom%Municate?|
012.H05.0SS  [om] three cloverleafs arranged as an inverted triangle  
012.H05.0$$  %1No ind., except final couplet ind. 7 sp.%2