IDENTILIN$$ F015O08/Don. b. 9 (ff.57v-58v)/TJS/mf/2-27-92/cor EWS/o/6-1-92
015.O08.0HE Elegie
015.O08.001 Come Madam, come, all rest my powers defie
015.O08.002 vntill I laboure, I in laboure lye
015.O08.003 The foe oft tymes, haueing the foe in sight
015.O08.004 Is tyr'd with standing, though they neuer fight
015.O08.005 Off which that girdle, like heauens Zones glistering [CW: But]
015.O08.006 But a farre fairer world in Compassing [f. 58r
015.O08.007 Vnpin that spangled Breastplate which you weare
015.O08.008 that th'eyes of busie fooles may be stoppd there
015.O08.009 Vnlace your selfe for that harmonious chime
015.O08.010 tells me from you that now tis your bedtyme
015.O08.011 off which that happy busk, whome I envye
015.O08.012 That still cann bee, and still can stand soe nigh
015.O08.013 your gownes going off such beautious state reveales
015.O08.014 As where from flowry Meades, th'hills shadowes steales
015.O08.015 off, with your wiery Coronett, and showe
015.O08.016 The hairy Diadem which on you doth growe
015.O08.017 off with those shooes, and then safely treade
015.O08.018 in this loue hallowed Temple, this softe bedd
015.O08.019 In such white Robes, heauens Angells vse to bee
015.O08.020 Receiud by men, thou, Angell bringst with thee
015.O08.021 a heauen like Mahometts Paradise: And thoughe
015.O08.022 ill Sprightes walk in white, wee easily knowe
015.O08.023 by this, theis Angells from an Euill spright
015.O08.024 They sett our hayres, but theis the flesh vpright
015.O08.025 Lycence my roueing handes, and lett them goe
015.O08.026 behinde, before, aboue, betweene belowe
015.O08.027 oh my America, my new found Land
015.O08.028 My kingdome safelyest when with one man man'd
015.O08.029 My Myne of Precious Stones, my Emperie
015.O08.030 how blest am I in this discouering thee?
015.O08.031 To enter in to theis bonds is to bee free 
015.O08.032 then where my hand is sett my Seale shall bee
015.O08.033 Full nakedness all Ioyes are due to thee
015.O08.034 as Soules vnbodyed, Bodyes vncloath'ed must bee
015.O08.035 To tast whole Ioyes, Iemms which you women vse
015.O08.036 Are as Atlantas balls, cast in mens viewes [f. 58v
015.O08.037 That when a fooles eye lighteth on a Iemm
015.O08.038 his Earthly Soule may couett theirs, not them
015.O08.039 Like pictures, or like Bookes, gay couering made
015.O08.040 For laymen, are all women thus arrayd
015.O08.041 Themselues are mistique bookes, which onely wee
015.O08.042 whome theire imputed grace will dignifie
015.O08.043 Must bee reueald, then since I may knowe
015.O08.044 as Liberally as to a Midwife, showe
015.O08.045 thy selfe, Cast all, yea, this white Lynnen hence
015.O08.046 Theire is noe Pennance much less Innocence
015.O08.047 To teach thee I am naked first: why than
015.O08.048 What needst thou haue more couering then a man.
015.O08.0SS Finis
015.O08.0$$ %1no ind;%2 Donne %1written in LM opp. l. 1 in pencil in 2nd hand%2