IDENTILIN$$  F022H08 Harvard, Eng. 966.7\ff 92r-93r\M:GL\mf\P:TLP\o\5-13-92\C:JSC 
022.H08.0HE  ELEGIE.  I. D.
022.H08.001  To make the doubt cleare that noe woman's true
022.H08.002  Was it my fate to proue it strong in you?
022.H08.003  Thought I but one had breathed purest ayre
022.H08.004  And must shee needes be false because shee's faire?
022.H08.005  Is it your beautyes markes, or of your youth
022.H08.006  Or your perfection not to study truth?
022.H08.007  Or thinke you heauen is deafe, & hath noe eyes,
022.H08.008  Or those shee hath smyle at your periuryes?
022.H08.009  Are vowes soe cheape with weomen? or the matter
022.H08.010  Whereof th'are made, that they are writt in water?
022.H08.011  And blowne away with winde? or doth there breath
022.H08.012  (Both hott & cold) at once both life & death?
022.H08.013  Who could haue thought soe many accents sweete
022.H08.014  fform'd into words, soe many sighes should meete
022.H08.015  As from our hearts, soe many oathes & teares
022.H08.016  Sprinkeled among (all sweetned by our feares)
022.H08.017  And the diuine impression of stolne kisses
022.H08.018  That seal'd the rest, should now proue empty blisses?
022.H08.019  Did you draw bondes to forfeit?  signe to breake?
022.H08.020  Or must we reade yo%5w%6 quite fro%M what yo%5w%6 speake>?->,<
022.H08.021  And finde the truth out the wrong way? or must
022.H08.022  Hee first desire you false would wish yo%5w%6 iust?
022.H08.023  Oh I prophane! though most of weomen bee
022.H08.024  This kinde of beast, my thoughts shall except thee
022.H08.025  My dearest loued, froward Iealousy
022.H08.026  With circumstance might vrge th'inconstancy. [CW:om]
022.H08.027  Sooner ile thinke the Sun will cease to cheere [92v]
022.H08.028  The teeming earth, & that forget to beare,
022.H08.029  Sooner that riuers will runn back, or Thames
022.H08.030  With ribbs of ice in Iune will binde his streames;
022.H08.031  Or nature by whose strength the world indures
022.H08.032  Would change her course before yo%5w%6 alter yours.
022.H08.033  But oh that trecherous breast to whom weake you
022.H08.034  Did trust our counsells, & we both may rue,
022.H08.035  Haueing his falshood found to late; t'was hee
022.H08.036  That made mee thinke yo%5w%6 guilty, & yo%5w%6 mee.
022.H08.037  Whilst the black wretch betray'd each simple word
022.H08.038  Wee spake, vnto the cunning of a third:
022.H08.039  Cursd may he bee that soe our loue did stayne
022.H08.040  And wander on the earth cursed as Cain,
022.H08.041  Wretched as hee, & not deserue least pitty,
022.H08.042  In plagueing him let misery be witty;
022.H08.043  Let all eyes shunn him, & hee shun each eye
022.H08.044  Till he be noisome as his infamy;
022.H08.045  May hee without remorse deny god thrice,
022.H08.046  And not be trusted more on his soules price;
022.H08.047  And after all selfe-torments when he dyes,
022.H08.048  May wolues teare out his heart, vulturs his eyes,
022.H08.049  Swine eate his bowells, & let his false tongue
022.H08.050  That vtter'd all be to some Rauen flunge,
022.H08.051  And let his carrion corps be a longer feast
022.H08.052  To the Kings doggs then any other beast.
022.H08.053  Now I haue cursed; lett's our loue reuiue, 
022.H08.054  In mee the flame was neuer more aliue. [CW:om]
022.H08.055  I could begin agayne to court & praise [93r]
022.H08.056  And in that pleasure lengthen the short dayes
022.H08.057  Of my liues lease, like painters that doe take
022.H08.058  Not in made worke delight, but whilst they make.
022.H08.059  I could renew those tymes when first I saw
022.H08.060  Loue in your eyes, that gaue my tongue the law
022.H08.061  To like what yo%5w%6 likd, & at Masques & Playes
022.H08.062  Commend the selfe same Actor, the same wayes,
022.H08.063  Aske how you did, & often with intent
022.H08.064  Of being officious, be impertinent.
022.H08.065  All which were such soft pastimes as in these
022.H08.066  Loue was as sutt'ly catcht as a disease.
022.H08.067  But being gott it is a treasure sweete
022.H08.068  W%5ch%6 to defend is harder then to gett,
022.H08.069  And ought not be profan'd on either part,
022.H08.070  ffor though tis gott by chance, tis kept by art.
022.H08.0SS  three fancy flourishes.
022.H08.0$$  %1No ind.; ll. 27-30 dim; Beal foliation differs from mf.%2