IDENTILIN$$ F022B30 \BL Harley 4064 (ff.246r-47r)/TJS/mf/7-3-91/cor/GAS/o/7-27-91 
022.B30.0HE Elegie
022.B30.001 To make the doubt clere that no womans true
022.B30.002 was it my fate to proue it strong in yo%5u%6
022.B30.003 Thought I but one had breathd purest ayre
022.B30.004 and must shee needs befalce because shees fayre
022.B30.005 Is it yo%5r%6 beauties marke, or of yo%5r%6 youth
022.B30.006 or of yo%5r%6 p%Pfecc%Mon not to studdy truth
022.B30.007 Or think yo%5u%6 heauen is Deafe? or hath no eyes
022.B30.008 or those shee has, smile att yo%5r%6 p%Piuries?
022.B30.009 Are vowes soe cheape w%5th%6 woemen, or the matter
022.B30.010 whereof they are made that they are writ in %V\(water
022.B30.011 and blowne awaie w%5th%6 winde? %Yand%Z->>or< doth their breath
022.B30.012 (both hot and colde) at once make lief and death
022.B30.013 who could hap->>haue< thought so many accents sweet
022.B30.014 form'd into words, so many sighes should meete [CW:[trimmed]
022.B30.015 As from o%5r%6 harts, so manie othes and teares [246v
022.B30.016 Sprinckled among (all sweeter by o%5r%6 feares
022.B30.017 And the devine impression of stolne kisses
022.B30.018 that seald the rest) should now proue emptie blisses
022.B30.019 did yo%5u%6 draw bands to forfeit? signe to breake,
022.B30.022 or must wee read yo%5u%6 quite from what yo%5u%6 speake
022.B30.021 And finde the truth out the wrong way or %V\(must
022.B30.022 he first desire yo%5u%6 false, would wish yo%5u%6 iust|
022.B30.023 O I prophane? though most of woemen be|
022.B30.024 this kinde of beast, my thought shall except thee
022.B30.025 My dearest lou'd. %1How euer Iealousie%2
022.B30.026 w%5th%6 circumstance might vrge thie enconstancy
022.B30.027 Sooner Ile think the Sunne will cease to cheare
022.B30.028 the teeming earth, and that forget to beare
022.B30.029 sooner that ryvers will run back; or Thames
022.B30.030 w%5th%6 ribs of Ice in June, would bynd his streames
022.B30.031 Or nature by whose strengeth the world endures
022.B30.032 would change her course before yo%5u%6 alter yo%5rs.%6
022.B30.033 But o%C that treacherous brest, to whome weake yo%5u%6
022.B30.034 did trust o%5r%6 Councells, & wee both may rue
022.B30.035 having his falshood found to late, twas hee
022.B30.036 that made me cast yo%5u%6 guilty and yo%5u%6 mee
022.B30.037 whilst he, black %Ywrecth%Z->>wretch< betrayd such simple word
022.B30.038 wee spake, vnto the cuning of a thrid.
022.B30.039 Curst may he be that so o%5r%6 loue hath slayne
022.B30.040 and wander wretched on the Earth as Cain
022.B30.041 wretched as he and not deserue lesst pittye
022.B30.042 in plaguing him lett missery be witty  [CW:Let all.]
022.B30.043 Let all eyes shun him, and he shun each eye. [247r
022.B30.044 till he be noysome as his infamye,
022.B30.045 May he w%5th%6out remorse deny god thrice,
022.B30.046 and not be trusted more on his soules price|
022.B30.047 and after all selfe torm%5t%6, when he dyes
022.B30.048 may wolues teare out his hart, vultures his eyes|
022.B30.049 Swynne eate his bowells, and his falser toung
022.B30.050 that vttred all, be to some ravon floung
022.B30.051 And let his carrion cor's be a longer feast
022.B30.052 to the kings doggs, then anie other beast|
022.B30.053 Now haue I curst lett vs o%5r%6 loue reviue
022.B30.054 in me the flame was never more alyve
022.B30.055 I could begyn againe to court and prayse;
022.B30.056 and in that pleasure leangthen the short dayes
022.B30.057 of my luies lease, like painters that doo take
022.B30.058 delight, not in made worke, but whiles they make.
022.B30.059 I could renew those tymes, when first I sawe
022.B30.060 loue in yo%5r%6 eyes, that gaue my %Ytounge%Z->>tongue< the la[missing]
022.B30.061 to like what yo%5u%6 likd, and at maskes, and playes
022.B30.062 comend the selfe same Actors the same wayes
022.B30.063 Aske how yo%5u%6 did, and often w%5th%6 intent
022.B30.064 of being officious be imp%Ptinent
022.B30.065 All w%5ch%6 were such soft pastimes, as in these
022.B30.066 loue was as subtly catchd, as a disease
022.B30.067 but %YI%Z#being got it is a treasure sweet
022.B30.068 w%5ch%6 to defend is harder then to gett, 
022.B30.069 and ought not be prophan'd on either part
022.B30.070 for though tis got by chaunce, tis kept by art|.
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