IDENTILIN$$ F022H06 Harvard, Eng. 966.5\pp. 144-46\M:GL\mf\P:TLP\o\5-6-92\C:JSC 022.H06.0HE >>P.<< >>The Expostulation.<< Elegie 022.H06.001 [missing]>>%VTo<< make the doubt cleere that no womans true 022.H06.002 Was it my fate to find it strong in you? 022.H06.003 Thought I but one had breathed purest ayre? 022.H06.004 And must shee needs bee false because shee's fayre? 022.H06.005 Is it yo%5r%6 beautyes marke, or of yo%5r%6 youth? 022.H06.006 Or yo%5r%6 perfection, not to study truth? 022.H06.007 Or thinke yo5%u%6 heauen is deafe and hath no eyes 022.H06.008 Or those %Yshee%Z>%Vit< hath smile at yo%5r%6 periuries? 022.H06.009 Are vowes so cheape with woemen? or the matter 022.H06.010 Whereof th'are made that they ar writt in water? 022.H06.011 And blowne away with wind? Or doth theyr breath 022.H06.012 (Both hot and cold) at once make life and death? 022.H06.013 Who could haue thought so many accents sweete 022.H06.014 fformd into words, so many sighs should meete 022.H06.015 As from our hearts, so many oaths and teares 022.H06.016 Sprinkled among (all sweetned by our feares) 022.H06.017 And the diuine impression of stolne kisses 022.H06.018 That seald the rest, should now proue empty blisses? 022.H06.019 Did yo%5u%6 draw bonds to forfeit, signe to breake? 022.H06.020 Or must wee reade you quite from what yo%5u%6 speake? 022.H06.021 And find the truth out the wrong way? or must 022.H06.022 Hee first desire yo%5u%6 false %Ysh%Zwould wishe yo%5u%6 iust? 022.H06.023 O%C I profane. though most of woemen bee 022.H06.024 This kind of beast my thoughts shall except thee 022.H06.025 (My dearest Loue%Yd%Z) >%Vthough< froward Iealousy 022.H06.026 With circumstance might vrge th*->>thy< inconstancy 022.H06.027 Sooner Ile thinke the Sunne will cease to cheere 022.H06.028 The teeming Earth, and that forget to beare [CW:Sooner--] 022.H06.029 Sooner that riuers will run back or Thems [76r] 022.H06.030 With ribbs of Ice in Iune will bind her streames 022.H06.031 Or Nature by whose strength the world endures 022.H06.032 Would change her course before yo%5u%6 alter yours 022.H06.033 But o%C that treacherous beast->>brest< to whome weake yo%5u%6 022.H06.034 Did trust our counsells and wee both may rue 022.H06.035 Hauing his falshood found too late. Twas hee 022.H06.036 That made %Yyo%5u%6%Z>mee< %Yguilty%Z>cast< %Yfirst%Z>you< %Yand%Z>guilty< %Ythen%Z>and< %Yyo%5u%6%Z>yo%5u%6< %Ymee%Z>mee< 022.H06.037 Whilst the black wretch betrayd each simple word 022.H06.038 Wee spake, vnto the cunning of a third. 022.H06.039 Curst may hee bee that so our loue hath slayne 022.H06.040 And wander on the earth wretched as Caine 022.H06.041 Wretched as hee and not deserue least pitty. 022.H06.042 In plaguing him let misery bee witty. 022.H06.043 Let all eyes shunn him, and hee shun each eye 022.H06.044 Till hee bee noysome as his Infamy. 022.H06.045 May hee without remorse deny god thrice 022.H06.046 And not bee trusted more on his soules price. 022.H06.047 And after all selfe-torment when hee dyes 022.H06.048 May wolues teare out his heart, vulturs his eyes 022.H06.049 Swine eate his bowells, and his falser tongue 022.H06.050 That vtterd all bee to some raven flung. 022.H06.051 And let his Carrion coarse bee a **onger->>longer< feast 022.H06.052 To the kings hounds then any other beast 022.H06.053 Now I haue curs'd, let vs our loue reuiue 022.H06.054 In mee the flame was never more aliue. 022.H06.055 I could beginne agayne to court and prayse 022.H06.056 And in that pleasure lengthen the short dayes 022.H06.057 Of my liues lease, like paynters that doe take 022.H06.058 Not in made wordes->>workes< %Ymade%Z delight, but whilst they make 022.H06.059 I could renew those times when first I saw 022.H06.060 Loue in yo%5r%6 eyes that gaue my tongue the law 022.H06.061 To like what you likd, and at maskes and playes 022.H06.062 Com%Mend the selfe same Actor the same wayes. [CW:Aske] 022.H06.063 Aske how yo%5u%6 did, and often with Intent [76v] 022.H06.064 Of beeing officious bee impertinent 022.H06.065 All which were such soft pastimes, as in these 022.H06.066 Loue was as subtilly caught as a disease 022.H06.067 But beeing got it is a treasure sweete 022.H06.068 W%5ch%6 to defend is harder then to get 022.H06.069 And ought not bee profan'd on eyther part 022.H06.070 ffor though tis got by chance, tis kept by Art. 022.H06.0SS [om] 022.H06.0$$ %1See corrected copy re. l. 36; near HE in 2d hand brown ink:%2 Quere if Donnes or S%5r%6 /Tho: Rowes %1followed in red ink by:%2 D%5r%6: Donnes printed in all the Ed%5ns%6: %1Also in red ink at HE:%2 The Expostulation.