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013.H05.0HE  Elegy.
013.H05.001  Natures lay-Idiott, I taught thee to loue,
013.H05.002  and in that Sophistry, oh, thou didst proue
013.H05.003  too suttle a foole; thou didst not vnderstand
013.H05.004  the mystique language of the eye nor hand,
013.H05.005  nor coldst thou iudge the difference of the ayre
013.H05.006  of sighes, and say this lyes, this sounds despaire,
013.H05.007  nor by the eyes water knowe a malady
013.H05.008  desperately hott, or changinge feavorously:
013.H05.009  I had not taught thee then the Alphabett
013.H05.010  of flowers, howe they devise-fully beinge sett
013.H05.011  and bound vp, might with speeche-les secrecy
013.H05.012  deliuer errands mutely and mutually.
013.H05.013  Remember since all thy words vsd' to be
013.H05.014  to euery suitor, I, yf my frendes agree.
013.H05.015  since household charmes thy husbands name to teach
013.H05.016  were all the loue-trickes, w%5ch%6 thy witt cold reach,
013.H05.017  and since an houres discourse cold scarse haue made
013.H05.018  one answeare in thee, and that ill array'd
013.H05.019  in broken Prouerbs and torne sentences;
013.H05.020  thou art not by soe many duties his,
013.H05.021  that fro%M the worlds com%Mon havinge seuerd thee
013.H05.022  In=layd thee, neyther to be seene nor see,
013.H05.023  as mine; w%5ch%6 haue with amorous delicacyes
013.H05.024  refind' thee into a blisse-full Paradise;
013.H05.025  Thy graces and good workes, my creatures be,
013.H05.026  I planted knowledge and lifes tree in thee,
013.H05.027  w%5ch%6, oh, shall strangers tast?  must I, alas,
013.H05.028  frame and ennamell Plate, and drinke in glasse?
013.H05.029  chafe waxe for others Seales?  breake a colts force,
013.H05.030  and leaue him then, beinge made a ready horse? |
013.H05.0SS  [om] one cloverleaf  
013.H05.0$$  No ind.