IDENTILIN$$ F013.B07/ElNat BL Add. 18647 (ff. 6r-v)/ TJS/mf/3-28-91/cor GAS/o/7-11-92
013.B07.0HE Elegie
013.B07.001 Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love
013.B07.002 And in that Sophistrie, oh thou dost proove
013.B07.003 Too subtile ffoole, thou didst not vnderstand
013.B07.004 The Mistique language, of the eye, nor hand
013.B07.005 Nor couldst thou iudge the difference of the Ayre
013.B07.006 Of sighs, and saye, this lies, this soundes dispaire [CW: Nor]
013.B07.007 Nor by th'eyes water call a malady  [f. 6v
013.B07.008 Desperately hott, or Changinge ffeavourously
013.B07.009 I had not taught thee then the Alphabett
013.B07.010 of fflowers, how they deuise fully beinge sett
013.B07.011 And bound vpp might w%5th%6 speechless secresie
013.B07.012 Deliver errandes mutelie, and mutuallie
013.B07.013 Remember since all thy wordes vs'd to bee
013.B07.014 To every Sutor (I, if my freindes agree
013.B07.015 Since houshold Charmes thy husbandes name to teach
013.B07.016 Were all the love trickes, that thy witt Could reach,
013.B07.017 And since an howers discourse would scarce have made
013.B07.018 One answeere in thee, and that ill array'd
013.B07.019 In broken Proverbs, and torne sentences,
013.B07.020 Thou art not by so many duties his
013.B07.021 That from the worlds Com%Mon havinge severed thee
013.B07.022 Inlayd thee, neither to be seene, nor see
013.B07.023 As mine; w%5ch%6 have w%5th%6 amorous delicacies
013.B07.024 Refin'd thee into a blisfull paradise,
013.B07.025 Thy graces, and good workes, my Creatures bee
013.B07.026 I planted knowledge, and lifes tree in thee
013.B07.027 w%5ch: oh shall Strangers tast? must I alasse
013.B07.028 fframe, and enammel plate, and drinke in glasse?
013.B07.029 Chafe waxe for others scales? breake a Coltes force
013.B07.030 And leave him beinge made a readie horse|
013.B07.0SS ffinis.
013.B07.0$$ %1no ind%2