IDENTILIN$$  F022H05 Harvard, Eng. 966.4\ff 150v-151v\M:G.L.\mf\P:TLP\o\5-7-92\C:JSC
022.H05.0HE  Elegy.
022.H05.001  To make the doubt cleere that no woman's true,
022.H05.002  was it my ffate to proue it stronge in you?
022.H05.003  thought I but one had breathed purest ayre,
022.H05.004  and must shee needs be false, because shee's fayre?
022.H05.005  is it your beautys markes, or of your youth,
022.H05.006  or your perfection, not to study truth?
022.H05.007  or thinke you heav'n is deafe, and hath no eyes,
022.H05.008  or those she hath; smile at your periuries?
022.H05.009  are vowes soe cheape with women? or the matter
022.H05.010  whereof th' are made, that they are writt in water
022.H05.011  and blowne away with wind? or doth theire breath
022.H05.012  (both hott and cold) at once make life and Death?
022.H05.013  Who cold haue thought soe many accents sweete
022.H05.014  form'd into wordes, soe many sighes should meete
022.H05.015  as from our hartes, soe many oathes and teares
022.H05.016  sprinckled amonge (all sweetned by our feares)
022.H05.017  and the Devine impression of stolne kisses
022.H05.018  that seald' the rest, should nowe proue empty blisses?
022.H05.019  Did you drawe bonds to forfett? signe to breake?
022.H05.022  or must we reade you quite from what you speake,
022.H05.021  and find the truth out the wrong way? or must
022.H05.022  he first desire you false, would wish you iust?
022.H05.023  O, I profane! though most of women be
022.H05.024  this kind of beast, my thoughts shall except thee,
022.H05.025  my deerest loued, froward Iealousy
022.H05.026  with circumstance might vrge th'inconstancy.
022.H05.027  sooner Ile thinke the Sunne will cease to cheere
022.H05.028  the Teeminge earth, and that forgett to beare;
022.H05.029  sooner that rivers will runne backe, or Teames
022.H05.030  with ribbs of Ice in Iune will binde his streames [CW:om]
022.H05.031  or Nature, by whose strength the world endures, [151r]
022.H05.032  would change her course, before you alter yours.
022.H05.033  But, o, that treacherous brest, to whome weake you
022.H05.034  did trust your Counsailes, and we both may rue
022.H05.035  havinge his falshood found, too late; 'twas he
022.H05.036  that made you, you guilty, and you me,
022.H05.037  whilst the blacke wretch betray'd each simple word
022.H05.038  we spake, vnto the cunninge of a third.
022.H05.039  Cursd' may he be, that soe our loue hath slayne,
022.H05.040  and wander on the earth, wretched as Caine,
022.H05.041  wretched as he, and not deserue least pitty,
022.H05.042  in plaguinge him,  let Misery be witty,
022.H05.043  let all eyes shunne him, and he shunne each eye,
022.H05.044  till he be noysome as his Infamy;
022.H05.045  may he without remorse deny God thrice,
022.H05.046  and not be trusted more on his soules price,
022.H05.047  and after all selfe-torment, when he dyes,
022.H05.048  may Wolues teare out his hart, Vultures his eyes,
022.H05.049  Swine eate his bowells, and his falser tongue
022.H05.050  that vttered all, be to some Raven flunge,
022.H05.051  and let his Carryon Coarse be a longer feast
022.H05.052  to the kinges dogges, then any other beast.
022.H05.053  Nowe I haue cursd', let vs our loue revive,
022.H05.054  in me, the flame was neuer more aliue:
022.H05.055  I cold beginne againe to Court and prayse,
022.H05.056  and in that pleasure lengthen the short dayes
022.H05.057  of my liues lease, like painters, that doe take
022.H05.058  not in made workes delight, but whilst they make:
022.H05.059  I cold renewe those times, when first I sawe
022.H05.060  loue in your eyes, that gaue my tongue the lawe. [CW:om]
022.H05.061  to like what you likd', and at Masques and Playes [151v]
022.H05.062  com%Mend the selfe-same Actor, the same wayes,
022.H05.063  aske howe you did, and often with intent
022.H05.064  of beinge officious, be impertinent;
022.H05.065  all w%5ch%6, were such soft pastimes, as in these
022.H05.066  loue was as subtilly catcht', as a disease,
022.H05.067  but beinge gott, it is a treasure sweete,
022.H05.068  w%5ch%6 to defend, is harder then to gett,
022.H05.069  and ought not be profan'd on eyther part,     
022.H05.070  for though 'tis gott by chance, 'tis kept by Art.
022.H05.0SS  [om] three cloverleafs arranged as an inverted triangle
022.H05.0$$  No ind., except final couplet ind. 7 sp.