IDENTILIN$$ F020B46/ElProg Stowe 961/ ff. 48r-49v/ GL/cor GAS/o/7-21-92 020.B46.0HE Elegie on Loues Progresse. [grape cluster] 020.B46.001 Who euer loues, if he do not propose 020.B46.002 The right true end of Loue, he's one that goes 020.B46.003 To Sea for nothinge but to make him Sicke. 020.B46.004 And Loue's a Bearewhelpe borne; If we o'relicke 020.B46.005 Our Loue, and force it new strange shapes to take 020.B46.006 We err, and of a Lumpe, a monster make. 020.B46.007 Were not a Calfe, a Monster, that were growne 020.B46.008 Fac't like a man, though better then his owne 020.B46.009 Perfection is in vnity: prefer 020.B46.010 One woman first, and then one thinge in hir 020.B46.011 I, when I valew Gold, may thincke vpon 020.B46.012 The Ductilenes, the application 020.B46.013 The holesomenes, the ingenuity, 020.B46.014 From ruste, from Soyle, from fire for euer free. 020.B46.015 But if I loue it, tis because tis made 020.B46.016 By our new nature, Vse, the Soule of trade. 020.B46.017 All these in women we might thincke vpon, 020.B46.018 If women had them, and yet loue but one. 020.B46.019 Can men more iniure women, then to say, 020.B46.020 They loue them for y%5t%6, by which, they are not they? 020.B46.021 Makes Virtue woman;? must I coole my Blood. 020.B46.022 Till I both See and finde one wise and Good? 020.B46.023 May barren Angells loue soe. But if wee 020.B46.024 Make loue to women, Virtue is not she 020.B46.025 As Beauty is not, nor wealth, he that strayes thus 020.B46.026 From hir to hirs, is more adulterous 020.B46.027 Then if he tooke hir mayde: Searche euery Spheare 020.B46.028 And firmament, our Cupid is not there. [f.48v 020.B46.029 He's an Infernall God, and vnder grounde 020.B46.030 With Pluto dwells; where Gold and fire abound. 020.B46.031 Men to Such Gods, theire Sacrificinge coales 020.B46.032 Did not on Altars lay, but Pitts and Holes. 020.B46.033 Although we See Celestiall Bodies moue 020.B46.034 Aboue the earth, the earth we till, and loue 020.B46.035 So we hir ayres contemplate, words and hart 020.B46.036 And virtues; but we loue the Centrique part. 020.B46.037 Nor is the Soule more worthy, or more fitt 020.B46.038 For Loue, then this as infinite as it 020.B46.039 But in attayninge this desired Place 020.B46.040 How much err they, which Sett out at the face? 020.B46.041 The hayre a forrest is of Ambushes 020.B46.042 Of Springs, Snares, fetters, and Manacles. 020.B46.043 The Brow becalmes us, when t'is Smoothe and plaine, 020.B46.044 And when tis wrinckled, Shipwracks us againe 020.B46.045 Smoothe; t'is a Paradise, where we would haue 020.B46.046 Immortall stay, and wrinckled tis a Graue. 020.B46.047 The nose like to the first Meridian runs 020.B46.048 not t'wixt an East and west, but twixt two Suns 020.B46.049 It leaues a Cheeke, a rosy Hemispheare 020.B46.050 On either Side, and then directs us, where 020.B46.051 Vpon the Islands Fortunate, wee fall. 020.B46.052 (Not fainte Canaries but Ambrosiall) 020.B46.053 Her Swellinge lips; to which when we are come 020.B46.054 We anchor there, and thincke ourselues at home 020.B46.055 For they Seeme all: there Syren Songs, and there. 020.B46.056 Wise delphique Oracles do fill the eare. 020.B46.057 There in a Creeke, where Chosen Pearles doe Swell [f.49r 020.B46.058 The Remora, hir cleauinge tongue doth dwell. 020.B46.059 These, and the glorious Promontorie, hir Chin 020.B46.060 Ore'past, and the streight Hellesponte, betweene 020.B46.061 The Sestos, and Abidos of hir Breasts, 020.B46.062 Not of two Louers, but two loues, the neasts 020.B46.063 Succeeds a boundles Sea: But that thine eye 020.B46.064 Some Iland moles, may Scattered there descry. 020.B46.065 And Saylinge toward hir India, in that way. 020.B46.066 Shalt at hir faire Atlantique Nauill, stay. 020.B46.067 Though, thence the Current, be thy Pilott made 020.B46.068 Yet e're thou be, where thou wouldst be imbayd 020.B46.069 Thou shalt vpon another forrest Sett 020.B46.070 Where Some doe shipwracke, and no further gett. 020.B46.071 When thou art there consider that this Chace 020.B46.072 Is much mispent, beginninge at the face. 020.B46.073 Rather Set out belowe, practise my Art 020.B46.074 Some Symmetry the foote hathe with that Part; 020.B46.075 Which thou dost Seeke, and is thy Mapp for that 020.B46.076 Louely enough to stop but not stay att. 020.B46.077 Leaste Subiect to disguise and Change it is 020.B46.078 Men Say the Duiell neuer can change his. 020.B46.079 It is the Embleme, that hath figured fi%Jrme%Knes 020.B46.080 Firmenes, t'is the first part that comes to Bed. 020.B46.081 Ciuility we See refinde: the Kisse 020.B46.082 That at the face began, transplanted is 020.B46.083 Since, to the hand, since, to th'imperiall knee 020.B46.084 Now at the Papall foote delights to bee. 020.B46.085 If Kings thincke that the neerer way, and doe [f.49v 020.B46.086 Rise from the foote, Louers may doe soe too. 020.B46.087 For as free Spheares far faster moue, then can 020.B46.088 Birds, whome the Aire resists; So may that man 020.B46.089 Which goes this emptie and AE%Lthereall way. 020.B46.090 Then if at Beauties Elements he stay. 020.B46.091 Rich nature hath in weomen wiselie made 020.B46.092 Two purses, and theire mouthes, auersly laide 020.B46.093 They then which to the Lower, tribute owe 020.B46.094 That way which that excheq%Q lookes, must goe. 020.B46.095 He which doth not, his errour is as great 020.B46.096 As who by Clyster, gaue the stomacke meat. 020.B46.0SS Finis [3 grape clusters in inverted triangle] 020.B46.0$$ %1even lines ind 3sp; GAS recorded everything he saw, though some of the "periods" are probably just penrests and won't be recorded%2