IDENTILIN$$  F01300A|ElNat|1633 M/MH\pp. 55-56\mf\ME\5-13-87\pr\cf\MJJ\10-1-95\cor\MJJ\11-20-95\p&c:JAH\cd(DFo,TxAM1),mf(CtY)\2-15-05
013.00A.0HE  %X%1Elegie%2 VIII.
013.00A.001  Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love,
013.00A.002  And in that sophistrie, Oh, thou dost prove
013.00A.003  Too subtile: Foole, thou didst not understand
013.00A.004  The mystique language of the eye nor hand:
013.00A.005  Nor couldst thou judge the difference of the aire
013.00A.006  Of sighes, and say, this lies, this sounds despaire.
013.00A.007  Nor by the'eyes water call a maladie
013.00A.008  Desperately hot, or changing feaverously.
013.00A.009  I had not taught thee then, the Alphabet
013.00A.010  Of flowers, how they devisefully being set
013.00A.011  And bound up, might with speechlesse secrecie
013.00A.012  Deliver arrands mutely, and mutually.
013.00A.013  Remember since all thy words us'd to bee
013.00A.014  To every suitor; %1I%2, %1if my friends agree%2.
013.00A.015  Since, houshold charmes, thy husbands name to teach,
013.00A.016  Were all the love trickes, that thy wit could reach;
013.00A.017  And since, an houres discourse could scarce have made
013.00A.018  One answer in thee, and that ill arraid
013.00A.019  In broken proverbs, and torne sentences.
013.00A.020  Thou art not by so many duties his,
013.00A.021  That from the worlds Common having sever'd thee, [CW: Inlaid]
013.00A.022  Inlaid thee, neither to be seene, nor see, [p.56]
013.00A.023  As mine: who have with amorous delicacies
013.00A.024  Refin'd thee'into a blis-full paradise.
013.00A.025  Thy graces and good words my creatures bee,
013.00A.026  I planted knowledge and lifes tree in thee,
013.00A.027  Which Oh, shall strangers taste?  Must I alas
013.00A.028  Frame and enamell Plate, and drinke in glasse?
013.00A.029  Chafe waxe for others seales? breake a colts force
013.00A.030  And leave him then, beeing made a ready horse?
013.00A.0SS  [dbl horiz. rule]
013.00A.0$$om