IDENTILIN$$ F050VA2 Victoria & Albert Dyce MS D 25.F.17 (f.40r-v)/TJS/mf/7-9-91/C:GAS/o/7-29-92
050.VA2.0HEom
050.VA2.001 No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
050.VA2.002 As I haue seen in one Autumnall face
050.VA2.003 Yonge beauties force a loue, & that's a rape
050.VA2.004 This doth but counsayle, yet you cannot scape
050.VA2.005 If 'twere a shame to loue, here 'twere no shame
050.VA2.006 Affections here take Reverences name
050.VA2.007 Were her first years y%5e%6 golden age? that's true
050.VA2.008 But now shees gold of try'd more pure then new
050.VA2.009 That was her torryd & enflaming time,
050.VA2.010 This is her tolerable Tropick clyme.
050.VA2.011 Fair dewes, who askes more heat, then comes from hence
050.VA2.012 He in a fever wisheth Pestilence
050.VA2.013 Call not her wrinkles graues, if graues they were [f.40v
050.VA2.014 They were loue graues for else he is no where.
050.VA2.015 yet lyes not loue dead here, but here doth sit
050.VA2.016 Vowed to his trench like an Anchoret.
050.VA2.017 And here till hers which must bee his death come
050.VA2.018 He doth not dig a graue but build a tombe.
050.VA2.019 Here dwells he though he sojourne every where
050.VA2.020 In Progresse, yet his standing house is here.
050.VA2.021 Here where still evening is not noone, nor night
050.VA2.022 Where no voluptuousnes yet all delight
050.VA2.023 In all her words unto all hearers fit
050.VA2.024 You may at Revels, you at Council sit.
050.VA2.025 This is Loue timber, youth his underwood
050.VA2.026 There is a wine in June Evenings bloud
050.VA2.027 Which then comes seasonablst when our cloyd taste
050.VA2.028 And appetite to all this else is past.
050.VA2.029 >>Xerxes strange Lydian loue, y%5e%6 Platane tree<<
050.VA2.030 >>Was loued for age none being so large as shee.<<
050.VA2.031 >>Or els because being young, nature did blesse<<
050.VA2.032 >>Her youth w%5th%6 ages glory \(Barennesse<<
050.VA2.033 If wee loue things long sought, Age is a thing
050.VA2.034 Which wee are fifty years in compassing.
050.VA2.035 If transitory things which soone decay,
050.VA2.036 Age must bee loueliest at y%5e%6 latest day.
050.VA2.037 But name not Winters faces whose skins st->>sl<acke
050.VA2.038 Lanke as an unthrifts purse, but a soules sacke
050.VA2.039 Whose eyes see light within, for all here's shade
050.VA2.040 Whose mouths are holes rather worne out y%5n%6 made.   
050.VA2.041 Whose every tooth t'a severall place is gone           
050.VA2.042 To vere ths Soules at Resurrection                     
050.VA2.043 Name not this->>>these<< lying->>>lyving<< Deaths head unto mee
050.VA2.044 For these not ancient but antique bee.                 
050.VA2.045 I hate extremities, yet I had rather stay              
050.VA2.046 With tombes y%5n%6 Cradles to wear out a day           
050.VA2.047 Since such loue's naturall >>motion is<< may still         
050.VA2.048 My loue descend & journy down the hill.                
050.VA2.049 Not panting after growing beauties so                  
050.VA2.050 I shall ebbe on w%5th%6 y%5m%6 y%5t%6 homeward goe.|.  
050.VA2.0SS J. Don.
050.VA2.0$$ %1no ind; l. 32 entered in RM opp. l. 31; ll. 29-32 inserted in 
            2nd hand--Nedham apparently left enough space for a couplet, but 
            the scribe who inserted the missing lines didn't have enough room 
            for all of them, so he put l. 32 in the RM; 3 asterisks in LM opp. 
            ll. 29-32; note all the changes made in the 2nd hand; check mf. 
            for second and third words in l. 42--they can't be right; SS in 
            RM opp. l. 50%2