IDENTILIN$$ F010VA2|ElPerf Cat. No. 18, ms. 25.F.17 (Nedham ms.)| ff. 20v-21r|\E:EWS\x\6-16-86/cor GAS/o/7-29-92
010.VA2.HE1 %XElegia tertia.
010.VA2.001 Once and but once found in thy company
010.VA2.002 All thy supposd escapes are layd on me.
010.VA2.003 And as a theife at barre is questiond there
010.VA2.004 By all the men that haue beene robd that yeare
010.VA2.005 So am I (by this trayterouse meanes surprized)
010.VA2.006 By thy hydropique father Catechisd.
010.VA2.007 Though he had wont to search with glazed eyes
010.VA2.008 As though he came to kill a Cocatrice;
010.VA2.009 Though he haue oft sworne that he would remoue
010.VA2.010 Thy beuties bane and foode of all our loue,
010.VA2.011 Hope of his goods, if I w%5th%6 thee were seene
010.VA2.012 Yet close and secret as our soules w'haue beene.
010.VA2.013 Though thy immortall mother which doth lye
010.VA2.014 Still buried in hir bed yet will not dye
010.VA2.015 Take this aduantage to sleepe out day-light
010.VA2.016 And watch thy entries, and retournes by night,
010.VA2.017 And when she takes thy hand and would seeme kinde
010.VA2.018 Doth search what ringes and arme-letts she can find.
010.VA2.019 And kissinge notes the colour of thy face
010.VA2.020 And fearinge least th'art swolne doth thee embrace,
010.VA2.021 And to try if thou longe, doth name strange meates
010.VA2.022 And noates thy palenesse, blushinge, sighes, and sweats
010.VA2.023 And politiquely will to thee confesse
010.VA2.024 The sinns of hir owne youths ranke lustfullnesse.
010.VA2.025 Yet loue these sorceries did remoue, and moud'
010.VA2.026 Thee to gull thine owne mother for my loue.
010.VA2.027 Thy little breethren which like fayerie sprights
010.VA2.028 Oft skipt into our chamber those sweet nights:
010.VA2.029 And kist and ingld' on there fathers knee
010.VA2.030 Were bribd next day to tell what they did see.
010.VA2.031 The grim- eightfoot- hie- iron- bound seruingman
010.VA2.032 (That oft names god in oathes and only then
010.VA2.033 He that to barre the first gate doth as wide
010.VA2.034 As the greate Rhodian Colossus stride.
010.VA2.035 Which if in hell no other paines there were
010.VA2.036 Makes me feare hell because he must be there)
010.VA2.037 Though by thy father he were hird' for this
010.VA2.038 Could neuer wittnesse any touch or kisse.
010.VA2.039 But (oh too common ill!) I brought with me
010.VA2.040 That which betrayd me to my enimie.
010.VA2.041 A loude perfume: which at my entrance cryd'
010.VA2.042 Euen to thy fathers nose, so wee were spied
010.VA2.043 When like a Tyrant Kinge which in his bed
010.VA2.044 Smells gunpowder, the pale wretch shiuered:
010.VA2.045 Had it beene some bad smell, he would haue thought
010.VA2.046 That his owne feet or breath that smell had brought.
010.VA2.047 But as we in our Isle imprisoned [f. 21r
010.VA2.048 Where cattle only and diuers dogges are bred
010.VA2.049 The pretiouse Vnicornes strange monsters calle;
010.VA2.050 So thought he good strange that had none at all.
010.VA2.051 I taught my silkes there whistlinge to forbeare
010.VA2.052 Euen my oppressed shooes, dumbe and speechlesse were.
010.VA2.053 Only thou bitter sweet whom I had layd
010.VA2.054 Next me, me trayterously hast betrayd.
010.VA2.055 And vnsuspected hast invisibly
010.VA2.056 At once fled vnto him and stayd with me.
010.VA2.057 Base excrement of earth which dost confound
010.VA2.058 Some from distinguishinge the sicke from sound.
010.VA2.059 By thee the silly amarous sucks his death
010.VA2.060 by drawinge in a leprouse harlotts breath,
010.VA2.061 By the the greatest staine in mans estate
010.VA2.062 Falls on vs to be calld effeminate,
010.VA2.063 Though yo%5w%6 be much loud' in the Princes hall
010.VA2.064 There thinges that seeme exceed substantiall,
010.VA2.065 Gods when ye fumd' on altars were pleasd well
010.VA2.066 Because y'are burnt, not that they likd' your smell.
010.VA2.067 Y'are loathsome all beinge tane simply, alone,
010.VA2.068 Shall wee loue ill thinges ioynd, and hate each one?
010.VA2.069 If yo%5w%6 were good, your good doth soone decay
010.VA2.070 And yo%5w%6 are rare, that takes the good away.
010.VA2.071 All my perfumes I giue most willingly
010.VA2.072 T'embalme thy fathers corse. what will he dye?
010.VA2.0SS Finis Eleg: 3.%5ae%L%6 I. Donne.
010.VA2.0$$ %1no ind; hyphenated words in l.31 separated for collation;%2 I. Donne %1flush w/RM%2