IDENTILIN$$ F021.O24 MS Malone 16 (pp. [30]-33)/TJS/mf/2-3-92/cor EWS/o/6-2-92 021.O24.HE1om 021.O24.001 Since thou must goe, & I must mourne, come night, 021.O24.002 environ mee with darknesse whiles I write; 021.O24.003 Shadow y%5t%6 hell vnto mee, w%5c%6h alone 021.O24.004 I am to suffer, when my deare is gone. 021.O24.005 alasse the darkest magicke cannot doe it, 021.O24.006 thou & great hell to boote are shadowes to it. 021.O24.007 Should Cynthia quitt thee, Venus, & each starre, 021.O24.008 it would not forme one thought darke as mine are. 021.O24.009 I could lend y%5m%6 obscuriousnes, and say 021.O24.010 out of my selfe there should bee no more day: 021.O24.011 Such is already my felt want of sight, 021.O24.012 did not the fires within mee force a light. 021.O24.013 O love that fire & darknes should bee mixt; 021.O24.014 or to thy triumphs soe strang torments fixt! 021.O24.015 is it because thy selfe art blind, that wee 021.O24.016 thy martyrs, must noe more each other see? 021.O24.017 or hast thou mind to breake vs on y%5r%6 wheele? 021.O24.018 and view old Chaos in y%5e%6 paines wee feele? 021.O24.019 or haue wee left vndone some mutuall right 021.O24.020 through holy feare? that meritts thy despight. 021.O24.021 noe, noe, the fault was mine. impute to mee, 021.O24.022 or rather to conspiring destiny, 021.O24.023 which, since I lov'd for forme before, decreed, 021.O24.024 that I should suffer when I lov'd endeed: 021.O24.025 & therfore now, sooner then I can say, 021.O24.026 I see the golden fruite is rapt away: 021.O24.027 or as I had watcht one drop in a vast streame; 021.O24.028 and I left wealthy only in a dreame. 021.O24.029 yet (loue) thou art blinder then thy selfe, in this 021.O24.030 to vexe my doue=like freind for mine amisse; 021.O24.031 & where my owne glad truth might expiate 021.O24.032 thy wrath, to make her fortune runne my fate. 021.O24.033 So blinded iustice, doth, when favourites fall, [p.31 021.O24.034 strike them, their house, their freinds, their followers all 021.O24.035 wast not enough y%5t%6 thou didst dart thy fires 021.O24.036 into our bloods, informing our desires?, 021.O24.037 & mad'st vs sigh, & blow, & pant, & burne, 021.O24.038 & then thy selfe into o%5r%6 flame didst turne? 021.O24.039 wast not enough y%5t%6 thou didst hazard vs 021.O24.040 to paths in loue so darke, soe dangerous, 021.O24.041 & those soe ambusht round with houshold spyes, 021.O24.042 and (over all) thy towred husbands eyes, 021.O24.043 y%5t%6 flam'd with oyly sweate of Iealousie? 021.O24.044 yet went wee not still on with constancy? 021.O24.045 haue wee not kept our guards? like spye & spye 021.O24.046 held correspondence when the foe stood by? 021.O24.047 stolne (more to sweeten them) our many blisses 021.O24.048 of meetings, conference, imbracements, kisses? 021.O24.049 shadowed with negligence o%5r%6 most respects? 021.O24.050 varied o%5r%6 language through all dialects 021.O24.051 of becks, winks, lookes, & often vnder boords 021.O24.052 spoke dialogues with o%5r%6 feete, farre from words? 021.O24.053 haue wee prov'd all these secretts of o%5r%6 art, 021.O24.054 yea thy pale inwards as thy panting heart? 021.O24.055 & after all this passed purgatory, 021.O24.056 must sadd divorce make vs the vulgars story? 021.O24.057 first let o%5r%6 eyes bee rivetted quite through 021.O24.058 o%5r%6 turning braynes; & both o%5r%6 lipps grow too: 021.O24.059 lett o%5r%6 armes claspe like Ivy: & our feare 021.O24.060 presse vs together y%5t%6 wee may sticke heere. 021.O24.061 till fortune y%5t%6 would riue vs with the deed 021.O24.062 strayne her eyes open, & it make them bleed. 021.O24.063 ffor loue it cannot bee, whom hitherto [p.[32] 021.O24.064 I haue accus'd, would such a mischeife doe: 021.O24.065 & fortune thou art worth my least exclaime, 021.O24.066 & plague enough thou hadst in thine owne shame. 021.O24.067 doe thy great worst: my freind & I haue armesŤŠ 021.O24.068 though not against thy stroakes, against thy harmes. 021.O24.069 rend vs asunder, thou canst nere devide 021.O24.070 o%5r%6 bodyes soe, but still o%5r%6 soules are ty'de; 021.O24.071 and wee can loue by letters still, & guifts, 021.O24.072 & thoughts, and dreames; Loue never wanteth shifts. 021.O24.073 I will not looke vpon y%5e%6 quickning sunne, 021.O24.074 but straight her beauty to my sence shall runne: 021.O24.075 the aire shall note her soft: the fire most pure: 021.O24.076 water suggests her cleare: & the Earth sure. 021.O24.077 times shall not loose o%5r%6 passages. the Spring 021.O24.078 shall tell how fresh o%5r%6 loves was in beginning: 021.O24.079 the Summer how it ripened in the eare: 021.O24.080 & Autumne what o%5r%6 golden harvests were: 021.O24.081 the winter I'le not thinke on, to spight thee, 021.O24.082 but count it a lost season, soe shall shee. 021.O24.083 and dearest freind since wee must part, drowne night 021.O24.084 with hope of day burthens>>,<< were->>>well<< borne are light. 021.O24.085 though cold & darknes longer hang some where, 021.O24.086 yet Phoe%Lbus equally lights all the spheares->>spheare<, 021.O24.087 & what hee cannot in like portion pay 021.O24.088 the world yet ioyes in masse; & soe wee may. 021.O24.089 bee then yo%5r%6 fairest selfe: & lett not woe 021.O24.090 winne on your health, yo%5r%6 youth, or beauty soe. 021.O24.091 Declare yo%5r%6 selfe base fortunes enemy 021.O24.092 noe lesse by your contempt, then constancy: 021.O24.093 that I may grow inamor'ed on your mind 021.O24.094 when mine owne thoughts I there reflected find. 021.O24.095 ffor the more comfort of my Deare I vow, [p.33 021.O24.096 my deeds shall still bee what my deedes are now. 021.O24.097 the Poles shall moue to teach mee, ere I start, 021.O24.098 & when I change my love, I'le chang my heart: 021.O24.099 nay if I wax but cold in my desire, 021.O24.100 thinke heaven hath motion lost, & y%5e%6 world fire. 021.O24.101 much more I could: but many words haue made 021.O24.102 that oft suspected, w%5c%6h wee would perswade. 021.O24.103 take therfore all in this; I loue soe true 021.O24.104 as I will never looke for lesse in you. 021.O24.0SSom 021.O24.0$$ %1ll. 1-104; no ind;%2 In %1written in 2nd hand & different ink in LM opp l. 45, and underneath a large%2 + %1opp.l. 44; only the recto's are numbered%2