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022.C04.0HE  Elegia.
022.C04.001  XTo make the doubt cleare that noe womans true
022.C04.002  Was it my fate to proue it strong in you?
022.C04.003  I thought but one had breathed purest ayre,
022.C04.004  And must shee needes be false, by cause shees faire?
022.C04.005  Is it your beauties marke, or of your youth,
022.C04.006  Or your perfection not to study truth?
022.C04.007  Or thinke you heauen is deafe, or hath noe eyes?
022.C04.008  Or those shee hath smile at your periuries? [CW:om]
022.C04.009  Are vows soe cheape with women? or the matter [4v]
022.C04.010  That they are made of, that th'are writ in water
022.C04.011  And blowne away with wind? or doth their breath
022.C04.012  Both hot, and cold, at once make life of death?
022.C04.013  Who could haue thought soe many accent sweet
022.C04.014  fformed into words, soe many sighs should meet
022.C04.015  As from our hearts, soe many oaths, and teares
022.C04.016  Sprinkled among (all sweeter by your feares)
022.C04.017  And the diuine impression of stoln kisses
022.C04.018  (That seald the rest) should now proue empty blisses?
022.C04.019  Did you draw bond to forfeite? signe to breake?
022.C04.020  Or must wee reade you quite from what you speake?
022.C04.021  And find the truth out the wrong way? or must
022.C04.022  Hee first desire you false, would wish you iust?
022.C04.023  O I prophane, though most of women be
022.C04.024  This kinde of beaste, my thought shall except thee.
022.C04.025  (My dearest loued) froward ielousie
022.C04.026  With circumstance might vrge thy constancy.
022.C04.027  Sooner I thinke the sun will cease to cleare
022.C04.028  The teeming earth, and that forget to beare:
022.C04.029  Sooner the Riuers will run backe, or Thames
022.C04.030  With ribs of ice in Iune will bind his streames;
022.C04.031  Or nature by whose strength the world endures
022.C04.032  Would change her course before you alter yours:
022.C04.033  But, o that treacherous brest, to whome weake you,
022.C04.034  Did trust our Counsails, and wee both may rue,
022.C04.035  Hauing his falshood found too late; twas he
022.C04.036  That made me cast you guilty, and you me.
022.C04.037  Whist he blacke wretch betraid each simple word
022.C04.038  Wee spake vnto the cunning of a third.
022.C04.039  Curst may he be that soe our loue hath slaine,
022.C04.040  And wander on the earth wretched as Caine,
022.C04.041  Wretched as he, and not deserue th'least pitty,
022.C04.042  In plauging him let miserie bee witty:
022.C04.043  Let all eyes shun him, and hee shun each eye,
022.C04.044  Till hee be noisome as his infamy:
022.C04.045  May he without remorse deny god thrice:
022.C04.046om
022.C04.047  And after all selfe torment when he dies, [CW:om]
022.C04.048  May wolues teare out his hearte, vultures his eyes, [5r]
022.C04.049  Swine eate his bowells, and his false tongue
022.C04.050  That vtterd all, be to some Rauen flung,
022.C04.051  And let his carrion course be a longer feast
022.C04.052  To the Kings doggs, then any other beast.
022.C04.053  Now I haue curst, let vs our loue reuiue,
022.C04.054  In me the flame was neuer more aliue.
022.C04.055  I could begin againe to court, and praise,
022.C04.056  And in that pleasure lengthen the short days
022.C04.057  Of my lifes lease, like painters that doe take
022.C04.058  Delight not in made workes, but while they make:
022.C04.059  I could renue those times, when I first saw,
022.C04.060  Loue in your eyes, that gaue my tongue the law
022.C04.061  To like what you likd, and at maskes, and plaies,
022.C04.062  Commend the selfe same actors, the same ways:
022.C04.063  Aske how you did, and often with intent
022.C04.064  Of being officious bee impertinent.
022.C04.065  All which were such soft pastimes, as in these
022.C04.066  Loue was as subtilly catchd as a disease;
022.C04.067  But being got it is a treasure sweete,
022.C04.068  Which to defend is harder then to get,
022.C04.069  And ought not be prophand on either part,
022.C04.070  ffor though tis got by chance, tis kept by art:  
022.C04.0SS  I.D.|
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