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AN ELEGIE by JOHN ROE

First Line: TRUE LOVE FINDES WITT, BUT HE WHOSE WITT DOTH MOVE
Last Line: THINKING TO SHARE THE SPORT, BUT NOT THE SINNE.

True Love findes witt, but he whose witt doth move
Him to love, confesses he doth not love:
And from his witt, passions and true desire
Are forc'd as hard, as from the flint is fire.
My love's all fire whose flames my soule do nurse,
Whose smokes are sighes; whose every sparke's a verse.
Doth measure women win? Then I know why
Most of our Ladies with the Scotts doe lie.
A Scott is measur'd in each syllable, terse
And smooth as a verse: and like that smooth verse
Is shallow, and wants matter, but in his handes,
And they are rugged; Her state better standes
Whom dauncing measures tempted, not the Scott:
In brief she's out of measure, lost, soe gott.
Greene-sickness wenches, (not needes must but) may
Looke pale, breathe short; at Court none so long stay.
Good witt ne're despair'd there, or @3Ay me@1 said:
For never Wench at Court was ravished.
And shee but cheates on Heaven, whom you so winne,
Thinking to share the sport, but not the sinne.



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