IDENTILIN$$ F012.VA2|Cat. No.18, ms. 25.F.17 (Nedham ms.)|ff.21v-22r\E:CMR\EWS\x\6-18-86/cor GAS/o/7-29-92 012.VA2.HE1 %XElegia quinta. 012.VA2.001 Oh let not me serue so as those men serue 012.VA2.002 Whom honnors smoakes at once fatten and sterue: 012.VA2.003 Poorly enricht with great mens words or lookes 012.VA2.004om 012.VA2.005 As those idolatrouse flatterers which still 012.VA2.006 There Princes stiles with many realmes fulfill. 012.VA2.007 Whence they no tribute haue, and where no sway 012.VA2.008 Such seruices I offer as shall pay 012.VA2.009 Them selues; I hate dead names; oh then let me 012.VA2.010 Fauorite in ordinarie, or no fauorite be. 012.VA2.011 When my soule was in hir owne bodye sheathd' 012.VA2.012 Nor yet by oathes betrothd', nor kisses breathd 012.VA2.013 Into my Purgatorie, faythlesse thee 012.VA2.014 Thy hart seemd' waxe and steele thy constancie, 012.VA2.015 So carelesse flowers strawd on the waters face 012.VA2.016 The curled whirlepooles, sucke, smacke and embrace, 012.VA2.017 Yet drowne them; so the tapers bearinge eye 012.VA2.018 Amourously twincklinge, beckens the giddy flye, 012.VA2.019 Yet burnes his winges: and such the Diuell is 012.VA2.020 Scarce visitinge them that are entirely his. 012.VA2.021 When I beheld a streame which from the springe 012.VA2.022 Doth with doubtfull melodiouse murmuringe 012.VA2.023 Or in a speechlesse slumber calmely ride 012.VA2.024 Her wedded channells bossome, and there chide 012.VA2.025 And bend hir browes and swell if any bough 012.VA2.026 Doe but stoope downe to kisse hir louely browe, [f. 22r 012.VA2.027 Yet if hir often gnawinge kisses win 012.VA2.028 The trayterouse banke to gape and let hir in, 012.VA2.029 She rusheth violently and doth diuorce 012.VA2.030 Her from hir natiue and hir longe kept course, 012.VA2.031 And rores and braues it, and in gallant scorne 012.VA2.032 In flatteringe eddies promisinge returne 012.VA2.033 She flowts the channell who thence forth is drye 012.VA2.034 Then say I that is she and this am I. 012.VA2.035 Yet let not thy deepe bitternesse begett 012.VA2.036 Carelesse despayre in me, for that will whett 012.VA2.037 My mind to %Ya%Z scorne, and oh loue dulld w%5th%6 paine 012.VA2.038 Was nee're so wise nor well armd' as disdaine. 012.VA2.039 Then with new eies I shall surueigh thee and spie 012.VA2.040 Death in thy cheeks and darkenesse in thy eye. 012.VA2.041 Though hope bred fayth and loue, thus taught I shall 012.VA2.042 As nations do from Roome, from thy loue fall. 012.VA2.043 My hate shall out growe thine, and vtterlie 012.VA2.044 I will renounce thy dalliance: and when I 012.VA2.045 Am recusant in that resolute state 012.VA2.046 What hurts it me to be excommunicate. 012.VA2.0SS Finis Eleg: 5%5tae%L%6 Ioh: Donne. 012.VA2.0$$ %1no ind; SS flush w/RM%2