IDENTLINE$$  F151SN4|BoulNar|Wedderburn 6504|ff. 91v-2v|Original EWS 6-11-83
151.SN4.0HE  Elegie
151.SN4.001  Language thou art to narrou and to Weak [f. 91v]
151.SN4.002  To ease vs nou great-persons cannot speak
151.SN4.003  If We could sigh out accents and Weip Wordes
151.SN4.004  Greefe [om] [om] [om] that tears beth afforde
151.SN4.005  Sad harts the lesse they seime the mor they ar
151.SN4.006  So guiltiest Men stand mutest att the Bar
151.SN4.007  Not that they know not feil not ther estait,
151.SN4.008  Bot extream sense hath maid them desperate
151.SN4.009  Sorrou to ghom We ou all that we be 
151.SN4.010  Tyrant of fyft and gretest monarchie
151.SN4.011  Was't that she did posses all harts Before
151.SN4.012  Thou hast kild her to mak thy empyre more
151.SN4.013  Kneust thou some wold that knew hir not lament
151.SN4.014  As in a deluge perish th'innocent
151.SN4.015  Wa'st not enough to hau that pallace wonne
151.SN4.016  But thou Must Rase it to that was vndoone
151.SN4.017  Hadst thou staid heer and lookt out all her eis
151.SN4.018  All had ador'd the that nou from the fleis
151.SN4.019  for They let out mor light then they took in
151.SN4.020  They told not ghen Bot did the day beginn
151.SN4.021  She was too saphirin and clear for the 
151.SN4.022  Clay flint and Iet nou thy duellings be
151.SN4.023  Alase she was to pure bot not to weak
151.SN4.024  Who ere sau cristall ordnance but wold brek
151.SN4.025  And tho we be thy conquest By her fall
151.SN4.026  Tha'st lost thy end for in her perish all
151.SN4.027  or if we liue we liu bot to Rebell
151.SN4.028  They kneu her better nou that kneu her weell
151.SN4.029  If we sould vaper out or pyne or dy
151.SN4.030  since she went first that wer no miserie
151.SN4.031  Thou chaung'd the world with her since she is gone
151.SN4.032  Mirth and posteritie's oppressione
151.SN4.033  for of all morall verteus she was all
151.SN4.034  The Ethik call of verteus cardinale
151.SN4.035  her soule was paradise the cherubine
151.SN4.036  sett to keep it was grace that keipt out sinn
151.SN4.037  She had no mor, then let in deaty, for we
151.SN4.038  all Reap consu%Mpsione from on fruitfull tree
151.SN4.039  Good took her hence least some of vs sould loue
151.SN4.040  her lyk that plant him and his laus aboue
151.SN4.041  And ghen we teares he Merci shedd in this
151.SN4.042  To Raise our Mynde to heauen gher nou she is,
151.SN4.043  Qho if her verteus wold haue lett her stay
151.SN4.044  We had, had, a sant nou a holie day
151.SN4.045  her hart was that straung bush gher sacreed fyre
151.SN4.046  Religione did not consume bot inspyre
151.SN4.047  sutch pietie, so chast vse of gods day
151.SN4.048  That ghat we turnd to feast she turnd to pray
151.SN4.049  And did prefigure heer in deuote taste
151.SN4.050  The Rest of her high sabbath ghich sall last
151.SN4.051  Angels did hold her vp gho nixt god duell
151.SN4.052  (for she was of That order ghence most fell)
151.SN4.053  Her bodie left with vs, lest some had said
151.SN4.054  She could not dy except they sau her dead
151.SN4.055  for from lesse Verteu and less Beutiousnes [f. 92v]
151.SN4.056  The gentils form'd them gods and goddesses
151.SN4.057  The Reuenous earth that nou wous her to be
151.SN4.058  Earth to.
151.SN4.059  om
151.SN4.060  om
15±.SN4.061  om
151.SN4.062  om
151.SN4.0SS  
151.SN4.0$$  "Elegie. Death, by John Donne" in pencil above heading. Space left in l. 4 for additional words.