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017.00A.0HE  %1Elegie%2 II. />>The Anagram<<(MH copy)
017.00A.001  Marry, and love thy %1Flavia%2, for, shee
017.00A.002  Hath all things, whereby others beautious bee,
017.00A.003  For, though her eyes be small, her mouth is great,
017.00A.004  Though they be Ivory, yet her teeth be jeat,
017.00A.005  Though they be dimme, yet she is light enough,
017.00A.006  And though her harsh haire fall, her skinne is rough;
017.00A.007  What though her cheeks be yellow, her haire's red,
017.00A.008  Give her thine, and she hath a maydenhead.
017.00A.009  These things are beauties elements, where these
017.00A.010  Meet in one, that one must, as perfect, please.
017.00A.011  If red and white and each good quality
017.00A.012  Be in thy wench, ne'r aske where it doth lye.
017.00A.013  In buying things perfum'd, we aske; if there
017.00A.014  Be muske and amber in it, but not where.
017.00A.015  Though all her parts be not in th'usuall place,
017.00A.016  She'hath yet an Anagram of a good face.
017.00A.017  If we might put the letters but one way, [CW: In]
017.00A.018  In the leane dearth of words, what could wee say? [p.46]
017.00A.019  When by the Gamut some Musitions make
017.00A.020  A perfect song, others will undertake,
017.00A.021  By the same Gamut chang'd, to equall it.
017.00A.022  Things simply good, can never be unfit;
017.00A.023  She's faire as any, if all be like her,
017.00A.024  And if none bee, then she is singular.
017.00A.025  All love is wonder; if wee justly doe
017.00A.026  Account her wonderfull, why not lovely too?
017.00A.027  Love built on beauty, soone as beauty, dies,
017.00A.028  Chuse this face, chang'd by no deformities;
017.00A.029  Women are all like Angels; the faire be
017.00A.030  Like those which fell to worse; but such as shee,
017.00A.031  Like to good Angels, nothing can impaire:
017.00A.032  'Tis lesse griefe to be foule, then to'have beene faire.
017.00A.033  For one nights revels, silke and gold we chuse,
017.00A.034  But, in long journeyes, cloth, and leather use.
017.00A.035  Beauty is barren oft; best husbands say
017.00A.036  There is best land, where there is foulest way.
017.00A.037  Oh what a soveraigne Plaister will shee bee
017.00A.038  If thy past sinnes have taught thee jealousie!
017.00A.039  Here needs no spies, nor eunuches; her commit
017.00A.040  Safe to thy foes; yea, to a Marmosit.
017.00A.041  When Belgiaes citties, the round countries drowne,
017.00A.042  That durty foulenesse guards, and armes the towne:
017.00A.043  So doth her face guard her; and so, for thee,
017.00A.044  Which, forc'd by businesse, absent oft must bee,
017.00A.045  Shee, whose face, like clouds, turnes the day to night,
017.00A.046  Who, mightier the%M the sea, makes Moores seem white,
017.00A.047  Who, though seaven yeares, she in the Stews had laid, [CW: A]
017.00A.048  A Nunnery durst receive, and thinke a maid, [p.47]
017.00A.049  And though in childbeds labour she did lie,
017.00A.050  Midwifes would sweare, 'twere but a tympanie,
017.00A.051  Whom, if shee accuse her selfe, I credit lesse
017.00A.052  Then witches, which impossibles confesse.
017.00A.053om
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017.00A.055  One like none, and lik'd of none, fittest were,
017.00A.056  For, things in fashion every man will weare.
017.00A.0SS  [Horiz. rule]
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