IDENTILIN$$  File F012O20  Eng poet e.99\ff.19v-20\GL\mf\P:EWS\o\6-1-92\C:JSC
012.O20.0HE  Elegye.
012.O20.001  Ohe lett mee not serue so, as those men serue
012.O20.002  Whom honors smoakes at Once fatten and sterue,
012.O20.003  Poorely enricht w%5th%6 greate mens wordes, or lookes.
012.O20.004  Nor to write my Name in thy louing bookes,
012.O20.005  As those Idolatrous flatterers; w%5ch%6 still
012.O20.006  Theyre Princes stiles, w%5th%6 many Realmes fullfill,
012.O20.007  Whence they no tribute haue, and where no sway.
012.O20.008  Such seruices I offer, as shall pay
012.O20.009  Themselues, I hate dead names: Oh then lett mee
012.O20.010  Fauorite in Ordinarye, or no Fauorite bee.
012.O20.011  When my Soule was in her owne Body sheathd,
012.O20.012  Nor yett by Oathes betroth'd, nor kisses breathd
012.O20.013  Into my Purgatory faythlesse Thee.
012.O20.014  Thy hart seemd waxe, and Steele thy Constantye.
012.O20.015  So carelesse flowers strawd on the waters face
012.O20.016  The Curled whirlepooles sucke, smacke, and embrace [CW:om]
012.O20.017  Yett drowne them:  So the Tapers beamy Eye [20]
012.O20.018  Amorousely twinckling, beckens the Giddy flye,
012.O20.019  Yett burnes hys wings; And such the Deuill is
012.O20.020  Scarce visiting them, who are intyrely hys.
012.O20.021  When I behold a streame, w%5ch%6 from the Spring,
012.O20.022  Doth w%5th%6 dolefull melodious murmuring
012.O20.023  Or in a speechlesse slumber calmely ride
012.O20.024  Hys wedded channells bosome, and then chide
012.O20.025  And bend hy->>her< browes, and swell yf any bowe
012.O20.026  Doe but stoope downe to kisse her vpmost browe;
012.O20.027  Yett if her often gnawing kisses win
012.O20.028  The trayterous bancke to gape, and lett her in
012.O20.029  She rusheth violently, and doth diuorce
012.O20.030  Her from her natiue, and her long kept course,
012.O20.031  And rores and braues yt, and in gallant skorne
012.O20.032  In flattering eddyes promising retorne
012.O20.033  She flouts the Channell, who thenceforth is drye;
012.O20.034  Then say I that is Shee, and thys am I.
012.O20.035  Yett lett not thy deepe bitternes begett
012.O20.036  Carelesse Despayre in Mee, for that will whett
012.O20.037  My minde to skorne; And oh loue dull'd w%5th%6 Payne,
012.O20.038  Was nere so wise, nor well arm'd as Disdayne;
012.O20.039  Then w%5th%6 new Eyes I shall suruay Thee, and spye
012.O20.040  Death in thy cheekes, and darknes in thyne Eye;
012.O20.041  Though hope bred fayth and loue; thus taught I shall
012.O20.042  As Nations doe from Rome, from thy loue fall.
012.O20.043  My hate shall outgrowe thyne, and vtterly
012.O20.044  I will renounce thy dallyance: and when I
012.O20.045  Am the Recusant, in that resolute state
012.O20.046  What hurts yt mee, to bee Excommunicate?|
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012.O20.0$$  El. 6. p.72. %1in 2nd hand left of HE,%2 G. I.178 %1at right--G = Grosart; modern foliation at bottom is 23v-24%2