IDENTILIN$$  File F016C080  Leconfield MS, ff.24v-25\M:GL\P:GAS\o\8-13-92\C:JSC
016.C08.0HE  Elegie 5%5th%6.
016.C08.001  Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too,
016.C08.002  Haue sea'ld thy loue, which nothing shoold vndoe.
016.C08.003  Yea though thou fall back, that Apostacie
016.C08.004  Confirme thy loue; Yett much, much I feare thee.
016.C08.005  Weomen are like the Arts, off>>e<<re'd vnto none
016.C08.006  Open to all searchers, vnpris'd, if vnknowne.
016.C08.007  If I haue caught a bird and lett him flye,
016.C08.008  An other fowler vsing theise meanes, as I
016.C08.009  Maie catch the same bird; And as these things bee,
016.C08.010  Weomen are made for men, not him, nor me.
016.C08.011  Foxes and goats; All beasts change when they please,
016.C08.012  Shall woemen more h>>ott,<< wily, wilde then these?
016.C08.013  Be bound to one man; and did nature then,
016.C08.014  Idlie make them apter to endure then men?
016.C08.015  They are our cloggs, and theire owne; if a man bee
016.C08.016  Chain'd to a Galley, yett the Galley is free. [CW:Whoe-|]
016.C08.017  Whoe hath a plowland, casts all his seed corne there, [25r]
016.C08.018  And yett allowes his ground more corne shoold beare.
016.C08.019  Though Danubye into the Sea must flowe,
016.C08.020  The Sea receaues the Rheene, Volga, and Po.
016.C08.021  By nature w%5ch%6 gaue itt>>,<< this libertie,
016.C08.022  Thou loues't>>,<< butt oh, Canst thou loue itt and me?
016.C08.023  Likenes glewes loue: Then if so thou doe,
016.C08.024  To make vs like and loue, must I change toe?
016.C08.025  More then thy hate I hate itt, rather lett me
016.C08.026  Allowe her change, then change as oft as shee,
016.C08.027  And so not teach butt force my opinion
016.C08.028  To loue not anie one, nor euerie one.
016.C08.029  To liue in one land, is captiuitie,
016.C08.030  To runn in all Countries, a wilde roguerie,
016.C08.031  Waters stinck soone, if in one place they bide,
016.C08.032  And in the vast sea, are worse putrifyde':
016.C08.033  Butt when they kisse one banck, and leauing this
016.C08.034  Neuer looke back, butt the next banck doe kisse.
016.C08.035  Then are they purest; Change is the nurserie
016.C08.036  Of musick, ioye, life, and eternitie.
016.C08.0SS  [om]
016.C08.0$$  %1No ind.  Some alteration in 2d hand in different ink.%2