Shall wee loue ill thinges ioynd, and hate each one?
If yow were good your good doth soone decaie
And yow are rare, that takes the good awaie;
All my perfumes I giue moste willingly
To embalme thy fathers corse; what will hee dy?|
Elegie.
Heere take my Picture, though I bid farwell
Thine in my hart, where my Soule dwells shall dwell
Tis like mee now, But I dead twill bee more,
When wee are shadowes both then twas before
When weatherbeaten I come back my hand
Perhaps with rude Ores torne, or sunbeames tan̅d
My face, and brest of haire=cloth, and my head
With cares rash suddaine stormes beinge orespred
My boddy a sack of bones broken with in
And powders blew staines scatterd on my skin
If riuall fooles tax thee to haue loud a man
Soe foule and course, as oh, I may seeme than
This shall saie what I was, And thou shalt saie
Doe his hurts reach mee? doth my worth decaie
Or doe they reach his iudginge mynde that hee
Showld now loue lesse, what hee did loue too see
That with in him is faire, and delicate
Was but the milke, which in loues chyldish state
Did nurse it: who now is growne strange enough
Too feede on that which toe disusd tastes seemes tough.
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