IDENTILIN$$ X01500G  1669-first app,  Yale-BritishLib.[L]\pp.97-9\EWS\mf\4-23-85\P:JSC\mf[L]\9-7-94\P&C:MEL\L,CtY,TxAM\10-23-07
015.00G.0HE %X%1To his Mistress going to bed%2.
015.00G.001 C%+Ome, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie, 
015.00G.002 Until I labour, I in labour lie.
015.00G.003 The foe oft-times having the foe in sight, 
015.00G.004 Is tir'd with standing though he never fight. [CW:Off]
015.00G.005 Off with that girdle, like heavens Zone glittering, [p.98]
015.00G.006 But a far fairer world incompassing.
015.00G.007 Unpin that spangled breastplate which you wear, 
015.00G.008 That th' eyes of busie fooles may be stopt there.
015.00G.009 Unlace your self, for that harmonious chyme, 
015.00G.010 Tells me from you, that now it is bed time.
015.00G.011 Off with that happy busk, which I envie, 
015.00G.012 That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
015.00G.013 Your gown going off, such beautious state reveals, 
015.00G.014 As when through flowry meads th'hills shadows steales.
015.00G.015 Off with that wyerie Coronet and shew
015.00G.016 The haiery Diadem which on your head doth grow:
015.00G.017 Now off with those shooes, and then softly tread
015.00G.018 In this loves hallow'd temple, this soft bed.
015.00G.019 In such white robes, heaven's Angels us'd to be
015.00G.020 Reveal'd to men: thou Angel bringst with thee
015.00G.021 A heaven like Mahomets Paradice, and though
015.00G.022 Ill spirits walk in white; we easly know, 
015.00G.023 By this these Angels from an evil sprite, 
015.00G.024 Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.
015.00G.025 Licence my roaving hands, and let them go, 
015.00G.026 Before, behind, between, above, below, 
015.00G.027 O my America! my new-found-land,
015.00G.028 My Kingdom's safest, when with one man man'd.
015.00G.029 My Myne of precious stones: My Emperie, 
015.00G.030 How am I blest in thus discovering thee?
015.00G.031 To enter in these bonds, is to be free;
015.00G.032 Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be, 
015.00G.033 Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, 
015.00G.034 As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, 
015.00G.035 To taste whole joyes. Jems which you women use
015.00G.036 Are like Atlanta's ball: cast in mens views, 
015.00G.037 That when a fools eye lighteth on a Jem, 
015.00G.038 His earthly soul may court that, not them: [CW:Like]
015.00G.039 Like pictures or like books gay coverings made, [p.99]
015.00G.040 For lay-men are all women thus arrayed.
015.00G.041 Themselves are only mystick books, which we, 
015.00G.042 (Whom their imputed grace will dignifie)
015.00G.043 Must see revealed. Then since that I may know;
015.00G.044 As liberally, as to thy Midwife shew
015.00G.045 Thy self: cast all, yea, this white lynnen hence
015.00G.046 There is no pennance due to innocence:
015.00G.047 To teach thee I am naked first, why than
015.00G.048 What needst thou have more covering then a man.
015.00G.0SSom
015.00G.0$$ %1Ll. 25, 33, 47 ind. 2 sp.%2