IDENTILIN$$ F024.B02/Sappho Add. 10309/ ff. 95-96v/ GL/cor GAS/o/7-11-92 024.B02.0HE An Elegie. 024.B02.001 Where is that hottest fire, which verse is sayd 024.B02.002 To haue: is that inchanting fire decay'd. 024.B02.003 Venus that drawes natures worke for natures law 024.B02.004 The (her best worke), to her worke cannot draw. 024.B02.005 Hath my loue-tears, quencht my poetique fire? 024.B02.006 Why quench they not aswell my hot desire? 024.B02.007 Though my thoughts creatures, often are w%5th%6 the, 024.B02.008 Yet I their forger want that libertie. 024.B02.009 Onely thy Image in my hart doth sit 024.B02.010 But it is waxe, & fires there surround it 024.B02.011 My fires haue drawne, & thine hath >%Vdrawne< that hence. 024.B02.012 And I am rob'd of picture, hart, and sence. 024.B02.013 W%5th%6 me still dwells my irkesome memorie, 024.B02.014 W%5ch%6 both to keepe and loose, greeues equallie. 024.B02.015 That tells me how faire: thou art, euen soe faire, 024.B02.016 As Goddesses which I to the compare 024.B02.017 Are grac'd by the; & to make blind men see 024.B02.018 What things good are, I sweare they are like the. 024.B02.019 ffor if we iustly call each sillie man, 024.B02.020 A Microcosme, what shall we call the than? 024.B02.021 Thou art not soft, & cleare; but straight, & faire, 024.B02.022 As downe, & stars, Cedars to lillies are. 024.B02.023 But thy faire hand, & checke, & eye trulie 024.B02.024 Are like thy other hand, & cheeke, & eye. [CW:Such] 024.B02.025 Such was my fancy once but shall be neuer [f.95v 024.B02.026 As thou wast, art; & maist y%5u%6 be so euer. 024.B02.027 Heare Louers sweare in their Idolatry 024.B02.028 That I am none, but greife discouers me. 024.B02.029 And yet I greiue the lesse, least greife remoue 024.B02.030 My beauty & make me vnworthy of thy loue. 024.B02.031om 024.B02.032om 024.B02.033om 024.B02.034om 024.B02.035om 024.B02.036om 024.B02.037om 024.B02.038om 024.B02.039om 024.B02.040om 024.B02.041om 024.B02.042om 024.B02.043om 024.B02.044om 024.B02.045om 024.B02.046om 024.B02.047om 024.B02.048om 024.B02.049om 024.B02.050om 024.B02.051om 024.B02.052om 024.B02.053om 024.B02.054om 024.B02.055 Me in a glasse I call the, but the%M a lasse 024.B02.056 When I would kisse, tears dims my eies & glasse. 024.B02.057 (Deere) cure this louing madnesse and restore 024.B02.058 My selfe to me, my hart; my all, and more, 024.B02.059 So may thy cheekes out-weare the scarlet dye, 024.B02.060 Thy face out-lustre the most glorious skye. 024.B02.061 So may thy much amazing beautie moue 024.B02.062 In women enuie; and in all men loue 024.B02.063 And change, & sickenesse be as far from the 024.B02.064 As thou by com%Ming neare keepe them from me. 024.B02.0SS [short rule beneath end of l. 64] 024.B02.0$$ %1lines 31-54 omitted; ll. 63-4 ind 3sp; no indication scribe thought he had a partial copy%2