IDENTILIN$$ F012.B47/ElServe Stowe 962 (f. 211-12)/ GAS/o/3-21-90/cor GAS/o/8-1-92
012.B47.0HE Ellegie.|
012.B47.001 O let me not serue soe as those men serue
012.B47.002 Whose hono%5rs%6 smoake, at once fatten & starue
012.B47.003 Poorely enrich'd w%5th%6 greate mens words or lookes
012.B47.004 Nor soe write thy name in thy louinge bookes. [CW: As those.]
012.B47.005 As those Idolatrouse flatterers, who still [211v
012.B47.006 Theire princes stiles w%5th%6 many Realmes fulfill
012.B47.007 Where they noe tribute haue and where noe sway
012.B47.008 Such services I offer as shall pay
012.B47.009 Themselues, I hate deade names; O then let me
012.B47.010 ffavo%5r%6ite in ordinary or noe favo%5r%6ite be
012.B47.011 When my soule was in her owne boddy sheath'd
012.B47.012 Nor yet by oathes betroathed, nor kisses breathd
012.B47.013 Into my Purgatory, (faythlesse thee)
012.B47.014 Thy hart seemed wax & steele thy Constancie
012.B47.015 Soe carelesse flowers strawed->>straw'd< on the waters face
012.B47.016 The Curled whirlpooles such->>sucke< smacke & imbrace
012.B47.017 Yet drowne them. Soe the tap%Ps beamy eie
012.B47.018 Amorously twyn>%5c%6<klinge beckens the giddy flye
012.B47.019 Yet burnes his winges: and such the diuell is
012.B47.020 Scarse visitinge them y%5t%6 are entirely his
012.B47.021 When I behold a streame w%5ch%6 from the springe
012.B47.022 Doth w%5th%6 doubtfull mellodiouse murmeringe
012.B47.023 Or in a speechles slumber calmely ride
012.B47.024 Her wedded channells bosome, & then chide
012.B47.025 And bend her browes & swell if any bowe
012.B47.026 Doe but stoope downe to kisse her vpper browe
012.B47.027 Yet if her often gnawinge kisses winne
012.B47.028 The trayterouse banke to gape & let her in
012.B47.029 She rusheth vyolently & doth divorce
012.B47.030 Her from her natiue & her longe kept course. [CW: And roares]
012.B47.031 And roares & braues it in a gallant skorne [f. 212
012.B47.032 In flatteringe eddyes in p%Pmisinge returne
012.B47.033 She flowets the Channell who thence fourth is drye
012.B47.034 Then say I that is shee, & this am I.
012.B47.035 Yet let not thy deepe bitternesse begett
012.B47.036 Carelesse dispayre in me for that will whett
012.B47.037 My minde w%5th%6 scorne, & O loue duld w%5th%6 payne
012.B47.038 Was ea're soe wise & well arm'd as disdayne
012.B47.039 Then w%5th%6 new eyes I shall survey & spye
012.B47.040 Death in thy Cheekes & darknes in %Yher%Z thy eye
012.B47.041 Though hope breade fayth & loue thus taught I shall
012.B47.042 As nations doe from Rome, from thy loue fall
012.B47.043 My hart shall out grow thyne & vtterly
012.B47.044 I will renounce thy dalliance, & when I
012.B47.045 Am the Recusant in that resulute state
012.B47.046 What hurts it me to be Excomu%Mnicate?
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