IDENTILIN$$ F02214F Iohnson, UNDER-WOODS..., pp.204-06\JSC\EWS disk\10-24-95 022.14f.0HE %X%1An Elegie%2. 022.14f.001 TO make the Doubt cleare that no Woman's true, 022.14f.002 Was it my fate to prove it full in you. 022.14f.003 Thought I but one had breath'd the purer Ayre, 022.14f.004 And must she needs be false, because she's faire? 022.14f.005 It is your beauties Marke, or of your youth, 022.14f.006 Or your perfection not to studie truth; 022.14f.007 Or thinke you heaven is deafe? or hath no eyes? 022.14f.008 Or those it has, winke at your perjuries; 022.14f.009 Are vowes so cheape with women? or the matter 022.14f.010 Whereof they are made, that they are writ in water; 022.14f.011 And blowne away with wind? or doth their breath 022.14f.012 Both hot and cold at once, threat life and death? 022.14f.013 Who could have thought so many accents sweet 022.14f.014 Tun'd to our words, so many sighes should meet 022.14f.015 Blowne from our hearts, so many oathes and teares 022.14f.016 Sprinkled among? All sweeter by our feares, 022.14f.017 And the Devine Impression of stolne kisses, 022.14f.018 That seal'd the rest, could now prove emptie blisses? 022.14f.019 Did you draw bonds to forfeit? Signe, to breake, 022.14f.020 Or must we read you quite from what you speake, 022.14f.021 And find the truth out the wrong way? or must 022.14f.022 He first desire you false, would wish you just? 022.14f.023 O, I prophane! though most of women be, 022.14f.024 The common Monster, Love shall except thee 022.14f.025 My dearest Love, how ever jealousie, 022.14f.026 With Circumstance might urge the contrarie. 022.14f.027 Sooner I'le thinke the Sunne would cease to cheare 022.14f.028 The teeming Earth, and that forget to beare; 022.14f.029 Sooner that Rivers would run back, or Thames 022.14f.030 With ribs of Ice in June would bind his streames: 022.14f.031 Or Nature, by whose strength the world indures, 022.14f.032 Would change her course, before you alter yours: 022.14f.033 But, O, that trecherous breast, to whom, weake you 022.14f.034 Did trust our counsells, and we both may rue, 022.14f.035 Having his falshood found too late! 'twas he 022.14f.036 That made me cast you Guiltie, and you me. 022.14f.037 Whilst he black wretch, betray'd each simple word 022.14f.038 We spake unto the comming of a third! 022.14f.039 Curst may he be that so our love hath slaine, 022.14f.040 And wander wretched on the earth, as %1Cain%2. 022.14f.041 Wretched as he, and not deserve least pittie 022.14f.042 In plaguing him let miserie be wittie. 022.14f.043 Let all eyes shun him, and he shun each eye, 022.14f.044 Till he be noysome as his infamie; 022.14f.045 May be without remorse deny God thrice, 022.14f.046 And not be trusted more on his soules price; 022.14f.047 And after all selfe-torment, when he dyes 022.14f.048 May Wolves teare out his heart, Vultures his eyes, 022.14f.049 Swyne eat his Bowels, and his falser Tongue, 022.14f.050 That utter'd all, be to some Raven flung, 022.14f.051 And let his carrion corse be a longer feast 022.14f.052 To the Kings Dogs, then any other beast. 022.14f.053 Now I have curst, let us our love receive; 022.14f.054 In me the flame was never more alive. 022.14f.055 I could begin againe to court and praise, 022.14f.056 And in that pleasure lengthen the short dayes 022.14f.057 Of my lifes lease; like Painters that doe take 022.14f.058 Delight, not in made workes, but whilst they make 022.14f.059 I could renew those times, when first I saw 022.14f.060 Love in your eyes, that gave my tongue the Law 022.14f.061 To like what you lik'd, and at Masques, or Playes, 022.14f.062 Commend the selfe-same Actors, the same wayes 022.14f.063 Aske how you did? and often with intent 022.14f.064 Of being officious, grow impertinent; 022.14f.065 All which were such lost pastimes, as in these 022.14f.066 Love was as subtly catch'd as a Disease. 022.14f.067 But, being got, it is a treasure, sweet, 022.14f.068 Which to defend, is harder then to get; 022.14f.069 And ought not be prophan'd on either part, 022.14f.070 For though 'tis got by chance, 'tis kept by art. 022.14f.0SS [om] 022.14f.0$$ %1Even no'd ll. ind 1-3 sp%2