IDENTILIN$$ F022B46 Stowe 961/ ff. 32v-33v/ GL/cor GAS/o/7-31-92 022.B46.0HE Elegie [grape cluster] 022.B46.001 %3To%4 make the doubt cleere that no woman's true 022.B46.002 Was it my fate, to proue it stronge in you? 022.B46.003 Thought I, but one had breathed purest Aire 022.B46.004 And must she needes be false, because she's faire? 022.B46.005 Is it your Beauties Marks, or of your youthe 022.B46.006 Or your perfection, not to studie Truth? 022.B46.007 Or thincke you heauen is deafe, and hath no eyes 022.B46.008 Or those she hath Smile at your periuries? 022.B46.009 Are vowes So cheape with weomen? or the matter 022.B46.010 Whereof they are made, that they are writt in water? 022.B46.011 And blowne away with winde? or doth theire breath 022.B46.012 (Both hot and Colde) at once make Life and Death? 022.B46.013 Who could ha'thought so many accents Sweet 022.B46.014 Form'd into words; so many Sighes should meet 022.B46.015 As from our harts; So many Oathes and teares 022.B46.016 Sprinckled amonge (all Sweetned by our feares) 022.B46.017 And the deuine impression of stolne kisses 022.B46.018 That seald the rest, should now proue emptie blisses? 022.B46.019 Did you drawe Bands to forfeit? Signe, to Breake? 022.B46.020 Or must we read you quite, from what you Speake? 022.B46.021 And finde the truthe out the wronge way? and >or< must 022.B46.022 He first desire you false, would wish you iust? 022.B46.023 Oh I profane; though most of women bee 022.B46.024 This kinde of beast, my thoughts shall except thee 022.B46.025 My dearest Loued, froward Iealousie 022.B46.026 With circumstance might vrge thy inconstancy. 022.B46.027 Soner Ile %Ycease%Z#thincke the Sun will cease to cheere 022.B46.028 The teeminge Earth, and that forget to beare. 022.B46.029 Soner the riuers will run backe, or Thames [f.33r 022.B46.030 With ribs of Ice in Iune will binde >%Vhis< streames 022.B46.031 Or nature by whose strenght the world indures 022.B46.032 Would change hir Course before you alter yours. 022.B46.033 But oh the treacherous Breast, to whome weake you 022.B46.034 Did trust our Counsells and we both may rue. 022.B46.035 Hauinge his falsehood founde too late, t'was hee 022.B46.036 That made you you guilty, and you me. 022.B46.037 Whilst the blacke wretch betraide each Simple word 022.B46.038 We Spake, vnto the Cunninge of a third 022.B46.039 Curst may he be that So our Loue hath slaine 022.B46.040 And wounded on the earth, wretched as Caine 022.B46.041 Wretched as he, and not deserue least pitty 022.B46.042 In plauginge him, may miserie be witty. 022.B46.043 Let all eyes shun him, and he shun, each eye 022.B46.044 Till he be noysome as his Infancie. 022.B46.045 May he without remorse deny God thrice 022.B46.046 And not be trusted more, on his Soule's price 022.B46.047 And after all selfe torment, when he dies 022.B46.048 May Wolues teare out his hart; Vultures his eyes 022.B46.049 Swine eate his Bowells; and his falser tongue 022.B46.050 That vtterd all be to some Rauen flunge. 022.B46.051 And let his Carrion Coarse be a longer feast 022.B46.052 To the Kings Dogs, then any other Beast. 022.B46.053 Now I haue Curst, let us our Loue reuiue 022.B46.054 In me the flame was neuer more aliue 022.B46.055 I could begin agen to Court and praise 022.B46.056 And in that pleasure lengthen the short dayes 022.B46.057 Of my liues lease, like Painters that doe take [f.33v 022.B46.058 Not in made works delight, but whilst they make 022.B46.059 I could renew those times, when first I sawe 022.B46.060 Loue in your eyes that gaue my tongue the Lawe 022.B46.061 To like what you lik't, and at masks and Plaies 022.B46.062 Commend the selfe Same Actor the Same wayes. 022.B46.063 Aske how you did, and often with intent 022.B46.064 Of being officious be impertinent. 022.B46.065 All such >%Vwhich< were Such softe pastimes, as in these 022.B46.066 Loue was as Subtly catcht, as a Disease 022.B46.067 But being gott, it is a treasure Sweet 022.B46.068 Which to defend is harder then to gett. 022.B46.069 And must not be profan'de on either part 022.B46.070 For though t'is got by Chance tis kept by Art. 022.B46.0SS Finis [beneath the SS are two grape clusters on either side of a P] 022.B46.0$$ %1indentation???; HE centered???; many of the superscripted words are actually entered over the preceding word--see GAS's Summer '92 corrections; many of them appear to have been intended to replace the word below them, even if that word has not been cancelled%2