IDENTILIN$$ F022TM1 Crewe ms.\pp.4-5\M:JSC\x\9-24-93\P:AY\o\4-94\C:JSC 022.TM1.HE1 %XElegie 022.TM1.001 To make the doubt cleere that noe Woman's true 022.TM1.002 is it my ffate to proue it stronge in yo%5u%6 022.TM1.003 Thought I but one had breathed purest ayre 022.TM1.004 & must shee needs be fals because shee's fayre 022.TM1.005 is it yo%r%6 beauties mark, or of yo%5r%6 youth 022.TM1.006 or your perfecion not to studye truth? 022.TM1.007 or thinke yo%5u%6 heauen is deafe or hath noe eyes 022.TM1.008 or those shee hath smiles at yo%5r%6 periuries 022.TM1.009 are vowes soe cheape with weomen or the matter 022.TM1.010 wherof they are made >%Vsoe light< that they are writt in Water 022.TM1.011 or blowne away with wind or doth theyr breath 022.TM1.012 both heat and coole at once make life & death 022.TM1.013 who could haue thought soe many acconts sweet 022.TM1.014 form'd into words, soe many sighs should meet 022.TM1.015 as from o%5r%6 hearts soe many oaths and tears 022.TM1.016 sprinkled amounge (all sweeter by o%5r%6 feares) 022.TM1.017 and the diuine impression off stolne kisses 022.TM1.018 (that seald the rest) should now proue emptie blisses 022.TM1.019 did yo%5u%6 draw bonds to forfayt, sign to break? 022.TM1.020 or must wee read yo%5u%6 quite fro%M what yo%5u%6 speake 022.TM1.021 and find the truth out y%5e%6 wonge way? or must 022.TM1.022 hee first desire yo%5u%6 false would wish yo%5u%6 iust? 022.TM1.023om 022.TM1.024om 022.TM1.025om 022.TM1.026om 022.TM1.027 sooner I thought the Sunn should cease to cleere 022.TM1.028 the teaminge earth and that forgett to beare 022.TM1.029om 022.TM1.030om 022.TM1.031 or nature by whose strenght the world endures 022.TM1.032 would change her course before yo%5u%6 alter yo%5rs%6 [CW: om] 022.TM1.033om 022.TM1.034om 022.TM1.035om 022.TM1.036om 022.TM1.037om 022.TM1.038om 022.TM1.039om 022.TM1.040om 022.TM1.041om 022.TM1.042om 022.TM1.043om 022.TM1.044om 022.TM1.045om 022.TM1.046om 022.TM1.047om 022.TM1.048om 022.TM1.049om 022.TM1.050om 022.TM1.051om 022.TM1.052om 022.TM1.053 Now I haue chidd lett us o%5r%6 loue reuiue [p.5] 022.TM1.054 in mee the flame was neuer more aliue 022.TM1.055 I could begin againe to Court & prayse 022.TM1.056 and in that pleasure lengthen the short dayes 022.TM1.057 of my liues lease, like painters that doe take 022.TM1.058 delight not in made work but whiles they make 022.TM1.059 I could renew those times when first I sawe 022.TM1.060 loue in y%5r%6 eyes that gaue my tounge y%5e%6 law 022.TM1.061 to like what yo%5u%6 like and at masks & playes 022.TM1.062 com%Mand the self same acto%5r%6s the same wayes 022.TM1.063 aske how yo%5u%6 did & often w%5th%6 intent 022.TM1.064 of beinge officious bee imp%Ptinent 022.TM1.065 all w%5ch%6 were soft pastimes & in these 022.TM1.066 loue was as subtellie caught as a desease 022.TM1.067 butt beinge gott it is a treasure sweete 022.TM1.068 w%5ch%6 to defend is harder then to keepe 022.TM1.069 and ought not bee profan'd on eyther part 022.TM1.070 for though t'is gott by chaunce t'is kept by art: 022.TM1.0SS finis 022.TM1.0$$ %1No ind. except final couplet. Ll. 23-26; 29-30; 33-52 omitted; check mark preceeds l. 17%2