IDENTILIN$$  F020O20 Eng poet e.99\ff.22v-24v\GL\mf\P:EWS\o\6-5-92\C:JSC
020.O20.0HE  Elegye.  On Loues Progresse.  
020.O20.001  Who euer loues, yf he doe not propose
020.O20.002  The right true end of loue; He 'ys One w%5ch%6 goes
020.O20.003  To Sea, for Nothing, but to make him sicke
020.O20.004  And loue is a Bearewhelpe borne; Yf wee ouerlicke
020.O20.005  Our loue, and force yt new strange shapes to take
020.O20.006  Wee Erre, and of a lumpe, a Monster make. [CW:om]
020.O20.007  Were not a Calfe a Monster, that weare growen [f.23]
020.O20.008  Fac'd like a Man, though better then hys owne?
020.O20.009  Perfection is in Vnitye.  Preferr
020.O20.010  One woma%M first, and then One thinge in her.
020.O20.011  I, when I value Gold, may thincke vpon
020.O20.012  The Duc>k<tillnes, the Applicatione,
020.O20.013  The wholsomnes, the Ingenuitye
020.O20.014  From Rust, from Soyle, from fyre eu%5r%6 free;
020.O20.015  But if I loue yt, t'is because t'is made
020.O20.016  By our new Nature, Vse, the Soule of trade.
020.O20.017  All these, in woeme%M, wee might thincke vpon
020.O20.018  (Yf woeme%M had them) but yett loue but One.
020.O20.019  Can men more iniure woeme%M, then to say,
020.O20.020  They loue them for that, by w%5ch%6 they are not they?
020.O20.021  Makes Vertu woma%M?  Must I coole my blood?
020.O20.022  Till I both bee, and finde One wise and good?
020.O20.023  May barren Angells loue soe:  But if wee
020.O20.024  Make loue to woma%M; Vertu is not Shee
020.O20.025  As Beauty is not, nor wealth; He that strayes thus
020.O20.026  From Her, to hers, is more adulterous,
020.O20.027  Then if he tooke her Mayde.  Search euery Spheare
020.O20.028  And Firmament, our Cupid is not there;
020.O20.029  He is an Infernall God, and vnder Ground,
020.O20.030  W%5th%6 Pluto dwells, where Gold & Fyre abound.
020.O20.031  Me%M to such Gods, theyre sacrificing coales [CW:om]
020.O20.032  Did not in Altars lay, but Pitts and hoales. [23v]
020.O20.033  Although wee see Celestiall Bodyes moue
020.O20.034  Aboue the Earth; The Earth wee tyll and loue;
020.O20.035  So wee her Ayres contemplate, words and Hart
020.O20.036  And Vertues; But wee loue the Centrique Part.
020.O20.037  Nor is the Soule more worthy, or more fitt
020.O20.038  For loue, then thys, as Infinite, as ytt.
020.O20.039  But in attaining thys desired Place,
020.O20.040  How much they stray, that sett out at the face.
020.O20.041  The Hayre a Forest is of Ambushes
020.O20.042  Of Springs, Snares, Fetters, and Manacles.
020.O20.043  The browe becalmes Vs, when tis smooth, & playne.
020.O20.044  And when tis wrinckled, shipwracks vs agayne.
020.O20.045  Smooth, tis a Paradice, where wee wold haue
020.O20.046  Immortall stay, and wrinckled t'is our Graue.
020.O20.047  The Nose like to the first Meridian runns,
020.O20.048  Not t'wixt an East and West, but twixt two Sunns.
020.O20.049  It leaues a Cheeke, a rosye Hemispheare
020.O20.050  On eyther Side, and then directs vs, where
020.O20.051  Vpon the Ilands fortunate wee fall,
020.O20.052  (Not faynte Canarye, but Ambrosyall)
020.O20.053  Her swelling lips; To w%5ch%6 when wee are come,
020.O20.054  Wee anchor there, and thincke ourselues at home;
020.O20.055  For they seeme all; there Syrens Songs and there
020.O20.056  Wise Delphique Oracles doe fill the Eare. [CW:om]
020.O20.057  There in a Creeke, where chosen Pearles doe swell [f.24]
020.O20.058  The Remora, her cleaving tongue doth dwell.
020.O20.059  These, and the glorious Promontory her Chinne
020.O20.060  Orepast; And the streight Hellispont betweene
020.O20.061  The Sestos, and Abidos of her brests,
020.O20.062  Not of two louers, but two loues, the Nests.
020.O20.063  Suceedes a boundles Sea, but that thyne Eye
020.O20.064  Some Iland Moles may scattred there descrye.
020.O20.065  And sailing towards her India, in that way
020.O20.066  Shall at her fayre Atlantique Nauell stay;
020.O20.067  Though thence the Currant, bee thy Pilott made,
020.O20.068  Yett ere thou bee, where thou woldst bee, embayde,
020.O20.069  Thou shalt vpon another Forrest sett,
020.O20.070  Where some doe shipwracke, and no farther gett.
020.O20.071  When thou art there, consider what thys Chace
020.O20.072  Mispent, by thy beginning at the face.
020.O20.073  Rather sett out belowe; Practise my Art
020.O20.074  Some Symmetrye, the Foote hath, w%5th%6 that Part,
020.O20.075  W%5ch%6 thou dost seeke, and ys thy Map for that
020.O20.076  Louely enough to stop, but not stay att.
020.O20.077  Least Subiect to disguize, and change it is,
020.O20.078  Men say, the Devill neu%5r%6 can change hys.
020.O20.079  It is the Embleame, w%5ch%6 hath figurd
020.O20.080  Firmnes; Tis the first Part, that comes to Bed
020.O20.081  Civilitye, wee see, refin'd the Kisse [CW:om]
020.O20.082  W%5ch%6 at the face begonne, transplanted is [24v]
020.O20.083  Since to the hand, since to the Imperiall knee,
020.O20.084  Now at the Papall foote delights to bee;
020.O20.085  Yf Kings thincke that the nearer way and doe
020.O20.086  Rise from the Foote, louers may doe so too.
020.O20.087  For as free Spheares moue faster farr, then can
020.O20.088  Birds, whom the Ayre resists, so may that Ma%M,
020.O20.089  W%5ch%6 goes thys Emptye, and Ethereall way,
020.O20.090  Then if at Beautyes Elements he stay;
020.O20.091  Rich Nature hath in woma%M wisely made
020.O20.092  Two Purses, and theyre mouths auersely layd.
020.O20.093  They then w%5ch%6 to the lower, Tribute owe,
020.O20.094  That way, w%5ch%6 that Exchequer lookes, must goe.
020.O20.095  Hee w%5ch%6 doth not, hys Error is as Greate
020.O20.096  As who by Clyster gaue the Stomache meate.|
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