IDENTILIN$$ File F013H080 Harvard, Eng. 966.7\f 88r-v\M:GL\mf\P:DAF\o\5-11-92\C:JSC 013.H08.0HE ELEGIE 5%5a%6. 013.H08.001 Natures lay Ideott I taught thee to loue 013.H08.002 And in that Sophistry oh thou dost proue 013.H08.003 Too subtle; foole, thou did'st not vnderstand 013.H08.004 The mistick language of the eye nor hand, 013.H08.005 Nor couldst thou iudge y%5e%6 difference of y%5e%6 aire 013.H08.006 Of sighes, & say this lyes, this sounds dispaire; 013.H08.007 Nor by the eyes water call a malady 013.H08.008 Desperately hott, or changing feuerously. 013.H08.009 I had not taught thee then the Alphabett 013.H08.010 Of flowers, how they deuisefully being sett 013.H08.011 And bound vp might w%5th%6 speechles secrecy 013.H08.012 Deliuer errands mutely, & mutually; 013.H08.013 Remember since all thy words vsd to bee [CW:om] 013.H08.014 To euery Suto%5r%6, I; if freinds agree. [88v] 013.H08.015 Since hous-hould charmes thy husbands name to teach 013.H08.016 Were all thy loue=tricks y%5t%6 witt could reach; 013.H08.017 And since an howers discourse could scarce haue made 013.H08.018 One answeare in thee, & that ill array'de, 013.H08.019 In broken Prouerbes, & torne sentences, 013.H08.020 Thou art not by soe many dutyes his 013.H08.021 That fro%M the worlds Com%Mon haueing seuered thee 013.H08.022 Inlayd thee, neither to be seene, nor see 013.H08.023 As myne, who haue w%5th%6 amorous delicacyes 013.H08.024 Refin'de thee into blissfull Paradise. 013.H08.025 Thy graces, & good wordes my creatures bee, 013.H08.026 I planted knowledge & lifes tree in thee, 013.H08.027 Which (oh) shall strangers tast? must I alass 013.H08.028 fframe & enam%Mell plate, & drinke in glasse? 013.H08.029 Chafe wax for others seales? breake a colts force 013.H08.030 And leaue him then being made a ready horse? 013.H08.0SS flourishes, indecipherable letters, and the name "Johnson" wr. twice. 013.H08.0$$ %1No ind.; Beal foliation differs from mf.%2