IDENTILIN$$ F015VA2|Cat.No.18, ms.25.F.17 (Nedham ms.)|ff.23r-23v|\E:CMR\EWS\x\6-18-86/cor GAS/o/7-29-92
015.VA2.HE1 %XElegia octaua.
015.VA2.001 Come Maddame come all rest my powers defie
015.VA2.002 Vntill I labour I in labour %Y*%Zlye.
015.VA2.003 The foe oft times haueinge the foe in sight
015.VA2.004 Is tyrd' with standinge though they neuer fight.
015.VA2.005 Of with that girdle like heauens Zone glisteringe
015.VA2.006 But a fare fairer world encompassinge.
015.VA2.007 Vnpin that spangled breast-plate w%5ch%6 yo%5w%6 weare
015.VA2.008 That th'eyes of busie fooles may be stopt there.
015.VA2.009 Vnlace your selfe for that harmonious chime
015.VA2.010 Tells me from you that now 'tis your bed time.
015.VA2.011 Of with that happy buske which I enuie
015.VA2.012 That still can be, and still can stand so nie.
015.VA2.013 Your gownes goinge of such beuteous state reueales
015.VA2.014 As when from flowry Meades th'hills shaddowes steales.
015.VA2.015 Of with your wirery Coronett and showe
015.VA2.016 Th'hairye Diadem which on you doth growe.
015.VA2.017 Now of with those shoes, and then softlie tread
015.VA2.018 In this loues hollowed temple, this soft bed.
015.VA2.019 In such white roabes heauens angells vsd' to be
015.VA2.020 Receiud' by men. Thou Angell bringst w%5th%6 thee
015.VA2.021 A heauen, like Mahomets paradice, and though
015.VA2.022 Ill speritts walke in white, we easily knowe
015.VA2.023 By this these Angells from an euill spright [f. 23v
015.VA2.024 They set our hayres, but these our flesh vpright.
015.VA2.025 Licence my roauinge handes, and lett them goe
015.VA2.026 Behinde, before, aboue, beneath, belowe.
015.VA2.027 Oh my America my now found Land
015.VA2.028 My kingdome saffest when with one man mand'.
015.VA2.029 My mine of preciouse stoanes my Emperie
015.VA2.030 How blest am I in this discoueringe thee?
015.VA2.031 To enter in these bandes is to be free,
015.VA2.032 There where my hand is set my seale shall be.
015.VA2.033 Full nakednesse all ioyes are due to thee!
015.VA2.034 As soules vnbodied, bodies vncloathd must be
015.VA2.035 To tast whole ioyes. Gemmes which you woemen vse
015.VA2.036 Are like Atlanta's balls cast in mens veiwes
015.VA2.037 That when a fooles eye lighteth on a gem
015.VA2.038 His earthly soule may couet thers not them
015.VA2.039 Like pictures or like bookes gay coueringes, made
015.VA2.040 For Lay-men; are all woemen thus arrayd'.
015.VA2.041 Them selues are mistique bookes, which only wee
015.VA2.042 Whom there imputed grace will dignifye
015.VA2.043 Must see reueald'. Then since that I may knowe,
015.VA2.044 As liberally as to thy Midwife showe
015.VA2.045 Thy selfe.  cast all ye this white linnen hence
015.VA2.046 There is no pennance due to innocence.
015.VA2.047 To teach thee I am naked first; why then
015.VA2.048 What needst thou haue more coueringe then a man.
015.VA2.0SS %XFinis Eleg: 9.%5nae%L%6 Ioh: Donn.
015.VA2.0$$ %1no ind;%2 Ioh: Donn. %1flush w/RM%2