IDENTILIN$$  F020H04 Harvard, 966.3\ff. 41v.-43\M:TLP\mf\P:TLP\o\5-9-92\C:JSC 
020.H04.0HE  Elegie:
020.H04.001  Who euer loues, if he doe not propose
020.H04.002  the right true end of loue, hees one w%5ch%6 goes
020.H04.003  To sea, for nothing but, to make him sick;
020.H04.004  And loue is a Beare whelp borne; if we ouerlick 
020.H04.005  our loue, and force it newe straun%Age shapes to take
020.H04.006  we erre, and of a lump, a monster make
020.H04.007  Were not a Calfe[var:>>calf<<] a%A monster that were growne
020.H04.008  facd like a%A man, though better then his owne?
020.H04.009  Perfection is in vnitie:  Preferre
020.H04.010  one woman first, a%And then one thing in her,
020.H04.011  I when I value gould maie thinke vpon
020.H04.012  the ductilnesse, the'application,
020.H04.013  The wholesomnes, the ingenuitie,
020.H04.014  from rust, from soyle, from fire euer free.
020.H04.015  But if I loue it 'tis because 'tis made
020.H04.016  by our new nature (vse) the soule of trade
020.H04.017  All theis in women we might thinke vpon
020.H04.018  (if women had them) but yet love but one [CW:Can#men:]
020.H04.019  Can men more in#iure women then to saie [42r.]
020.H04.020  they loue them for that, by w%5ch%6 they are not they?
020.H04.021  Makes vertue woman? must I coole my blood
020.H04.022  till I both be, and finde one wise and good?
020.H04.023  May barren Angelles loue soe: But if we
020.H04.024  make loue to woman, vertue is not shee;
020.H04.025  As beauty is not, nor wealth: He that strayes thus
020.H04.026  from her to hers, is more adulterous
020.H04.027  Then if he tooke her mayde. Search euerie Sphere
020.H04.028  and firmament, our Cupid is not there:
020.H04.029  He'es an infernall god, and vnder ground,
020.H04.030  w%5th%6 Pluto dwells, where gould, and fire abound;
020.H04.031  Men to such Goddes their sacrificing coales
020.H04.032  did not in Altars laye, but pittes, and holes:
020.H04.033  Allthough we see celestiall bodies moue
020.H04.034  aboue the earth, the earth we till, and love,
020.H04.035  Soe we her ayres contemplate, wordes, & heart
020.H04.036  a%And vertues but we loue the Centrique part.
020.H04.037  Nor is the soule more worthy, or more fitt,
020.H04.038  for loue then this, an->>as< infinite as it;
020.H04.039  But in attayning this desired place
020.H04.040  howe much %Ythey%Z stray >they<, that sett out at the fa%Ace?
020.H04.041  The haire a%A fforrest is of Ambushes:
020.H04.042  of springes, snares, fetters, and mana%Acles
020.H04.043  The browe becalmes vs when tis smooth, and plaine,
020.H04.044  and when tis wrinckled shipwrackes vs againe.
020.H04.045  Smooth, 'tis a Paradice where we would haue
020.H04.046  imo%Mrtall staye, and wrinckled tis our grave
020.H04.047  The Nose like to the first Meridian runnes
020.H04.048  not twixt a%An Ea%Ast, and west, but twixt two Suns
020.H04.049  It leaves a cheeke, a%A rosie Hemisphere
020.H04.050  on either side, and then direct vs, where
020.H04.051  Vpon the Ilands ffortunate we fa%All
020.H04.052  (not faint Canaris, but Ambrosiall:
020.H04.053  Her swelling lippes to w%5ch%6 when we are come
020.H04.054  we anchor there, and thinke ourselues at home [CW:om]
020.H04.055  ffor they seeme a%All: There Sirens songes, and there [42v.]
020.H04.056  wise Delphick Oracles doe fill the eare.
020.H04.057  There in a%A Creeke where chosen pearles doe swell;
020.H04.058  the Remora, and cleaving tongue doe dwell:
020.H04.059  Theis, and the glorious Promontory her chinne
020.H04.060  ore'past, And the straight Hellespont betweene;
020.H04.061  The Sestos, and Abidos of her breastes
020.H04.062  not of two lovers, but >%Y<of>%Z< two loues the neasts)
020.H04.063  Succeedes a%A boundlesse Sea; but that thine eie
020.H04.064  Some Iland moles may scattered there descrie.
020.H04.065  And sayling towardes her India in that wa%Y*%Z>%Vy<e
020.H04.066  shall at her faire At'lantique Navell staye
020.H04.067  Thou>%Vghe< thence the current be thy Pilot made
020.H04.068  yet e're thou be where thou wouldst be embay'd
020.H04.069  Thou shalt vpon another fforrest sett
020.H04.070  where some doe shipwrack, and noe further gett:
020.H04.071  When thou art there consider what this Chace
020.H04.072  mispent by thy beginning at the fa%Ace:
020.H04.073  Rather sett out belowe; practise my art
020.H04.074  some sym%Metrie the foote hath w%5th%6 that Part;
020.H04.075  w%5ch%6 thou do'est seeke, and is thy Map for that
020.H04.076  louely inough to stop, but not %Yto%Z staie at:
020.H04.077  Least subiect to disguise, and chaunge it is
020.H04.078  men saie the Diuell neuer can chaunge his:
020.H04.079  It is the Embleme that hath figured
020.H04.080  firmenes; tis the first part that comes to bed,
020.H04.081  Civi%Gllitie%G; we see refinde the kisse
020.H04.082  w%5ch%6 (at the face begun) transplanted is
020.H04.083  Since to the hand; since to th'imperiall knee
020.H04.084  Nowe at the Papall foote delights to be.
020.H04.085  If kinges thinke that the neerer way, a%And doe
020.H04.086  rise from the foote, Louers may doe soe too.
020.H04.087  ffor as ffree spheres moue faster farre then ca%An
020.H04.088  birdes, whom the a%Ayre resistes; soe may that man
020.H04.089  w%5ch%6 goes this emptie, and AE%Lthereall waye
020.H04.090  then if at Beauties Elements he staye [CW:Rich:]
020.H04.091  Rich nature ha%Ath in woman wisely made [43r.] 
020.H04.092  two purses, and their mouthes aversly laid.
020.H04.093  They then w%%ch%6 to the lower tribute owe
020.H04.094  that waye w%5ch%6 that Exchequer lookes must goe
020.H04.095  He w%5ch%6 doth not, his Errour is as great
020.H04.096  As who by Clister giues the stomack meate
020.H04.0SS  Finis  
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