IDENTILIN$$ F024.B07/Sappho BL Add. 18647 (ff. 39v-40v)/ TJS/mf/4-9-91/cor GAS/o/7-26-92
024.B07.0HE %1Sapho to Philae%Lnis%2|
024.B07.001 Where is that holy fire, w%5ch%6 verse is saide
024.B07.002 To have? Is that enchauntinge force decay'd
024.B07.003 Verse that drawes Natures workes to natures lawe
024.B07.004 Thee, her best work to >%Vher< worke, cannott drawe
024.B07.005 Haue my teares quench'd my olde Poetique fire?
024.B07.006 Why quench'd they not aswell that of Desire?
024.B07.007 Thoughtes (my mindes Creatures) often are w%5th%6 thee,
024.B07.008 But I their maker want their libertie
024.B07.009 Only thine Image in my hart doth sitt
024.B07.010 But that is waxe; and ffires environ it.
024.B07.011 My fires have driven, thine, have drawen it hence
024.B07.012 And I am robb'd of Picture, hart, and sence,
024.B07.013 Dwells %Ystill%Z#w.%5th%6 my->>me< still mine Irksome memory
024.B07.014 W%5ch%6 both to keepe and loose, Greeves equally
024.B07.015 That tells mee how faire thou art: thou art so faire
024.B07.016 As Godes, (when Godes to thee I doe Compare)
024.B07.017 And grac'd thereby, and to make blinde men see
024.B07.018 What thinges Godes are, I saye they are like to thee
024.B07.019 ffor if wee iustly call each silly man
024.B07.020 A little world, what shall wee call thee than?
024.B07.021 Thou art not soft, and cleare, and straight and faire
024.B07.022 As Downe, as Stares, as Cae%Ldars, and Lillies are
024.B07.023 But thy right hand, and Cheeke, and eye only
024.B07.024 are like thy other hand and Cheeke and eye|
024.B07.025 Such was my Phao a while, but shalbe never
024.B07.026 As thou wast, art, and (oh) maist %Yever%Z#bee ever
024.B07.027 Heere Lovers sweare in their Idolatry|
024.B07.028 That I am such; but greeff discoullers mee| [CW:And]
024.B07.029 And yet I greeve the less, least greeffe remoove [f.40r
024.B07.030 My beauty and make mee vnworthy of thy love
024.B07.031 Playes some soft Boy w%5th%6 thee, oh there wantes yet
024.B07.032 A mutuall feelinge w%5ch%6 should sweeten it
024.B07.033 His Chin, a Thorny, hairy vnevennesse
024.B07.034 Doth threaten, and some dayly Change possesse
024.B07.035 My Body is a naturall Paradise
024.B07.036 In whose selfe vnmanur'd all pleasures lies
024.B07.037 Nor neede perfection; why should'st thou than
024.B07.038 Admitt the tillage of a harsh rough man?
024.B07.039 Men leave behinde them that w.%5ch%6 their sinn showes
024.B07.040 And are as theeves trac'd, w:%5ch%6 robb when it snowes
024.B07.041 But of our Dalliance, no more signes there are
024.B07.042 Then fishes have in streames, or birdes in ayre
024.B07.043 And betweene vs all sweetenes maye be hadd
024.B07.044 All that all nature yealdes, or art cane add
024.B07.045 My two lipps, eyes, Thighes, differ from thy two
024.B07.046 But so as thine from one an other doe
024.B07.047 And (oh) no more the likeness beinge such
024.B07.048 Why should they not alike in all partes touch
024.B07.049 hand to strange hand, lipp to lipp none denies
024.B07.050 Why should thy breast, to breast, or thighes to thighes?
024.B07.051 Likenes begettes such strange selfe flatterie,
024.B07.052 That touchinge my selfe all seemes done to thee
024.B07.053 My selfe I embrace, and mine owne handes I kisse
024.B07.054 And amourously thanke my selfe for this
024.B07.055 Mee in my glasse I call thee: but alasse
024.B07.056 When I would kisse, teares dimm mine eyes and glasse
024.B07.057 O cure this lovinge madness, and restore %Yme%Z
024.B07.058 Mee, to mee, thee my halfe, my all, my more| [CW:So|]
024.B07.059 So maye thy >%VCheekes< redd,#%YCheekes%Z outweare skarlett dye [f.40v
024.B07.060 And their white whiteness of the Gallerie|
024.B07.061 Soe maye thy mightie amazinge, beautie moove
024.B07.062 Envie in all woemen, and in all men love|
024.B07.063 And so be change and sicknes farr from thee
024.B07.064 As thou by com%Minge neare keep'st them from mee|
024.B07.0SSom
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