IDENTILIN$$ F019VA2 Cat. No.18, ms. 25.F.17 (Nedham)|ff.25v\CMR\EWS\x\6-25-86/C:GAS/o/7-29-92
019.VA2.HE1 %XElegia duodecima.
019.VA2.001 Here take my picture; though I bid farewell
019.VA2.002 Thine in my hart where my soule dwells shall dwell,
019.VA2.003 'Tis like me now, but I dead 'twill be more
019.VA2.004 When we are shaddowes both then 'twas before;
019.VA2.005 When weather-beaten I come backe, my hand
019.VA2.006 Perchance with rude oares torne, or sunne-beanees->>sun-beames< tand'
019.VA2.007 My face and breast of hayre-cloth and my head
019.VA2.008 With cares rash %Yd%Z suddaine horinesse o're spred,
019.VA2.009 My bodie a sacke of bones broken with in,
019.VA2.010 And powder- blew staines scatterd on my skin.
019.VA2.011 If riuall fooles taxe thee to haue loud' a man
019.VA2.012 So foule and course as oh I may seeme then,
019.VA2.013 This shall say what I was, and thou shalt say
019.VA2.014 Doe his hurts reach me? doth my worth decay?
019.VA2.015 Or doe they reach his iudginge parte? that he
019.VA2.016 Should like and loue lesse what he did loue to see?
019.VA2.017 That which in him was fayre and delicate
019.VA2.018 Was but the milke which in loues childish state
019.VA2.019 Did nurse it; who now is growne stronge enough
019.VA2.020 To feed on that which to disusd' tasts growe tough.
019.VA2.0SS Finis Eleg: 12%5mae%L.%6 Ioh Donne.
019.VA2.0$$ %1no ind; SS flush w/RM; hyphen in l.10 separated for collation%2