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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) Elegia XVII. Quod Corinnæ soli sit serviturus. - The Works of Christopher Marlowe, vol. 3 (Poems)
Elegia XVII. Quod Corinnæ soli sit serviturus. - Christopher Marlowe, The Works of Christopher Marlowe, vol. 3 (Poems) [1598]Edition used:The Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. A.H. Bullen (London: John C. Nimmo, 1885). Vol. 3.
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- Elegia XVI. Ad Amicam, Ut Ad Rura Sua Veniat.
- Elegia XVII. Quod Corinnæ Soli Sit Serviturus.
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- Scene I.
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Elegia XVII.
Quod Corinnæ soli sit serviturus.
- To serve a wench if any think it shame,
- He being judge, I am convinced of blame.
- Let me be slandered, while my fire she hides,
- That Paphos, and flood-beat Cythera guides.
- Would I had been my mistress' gentle prey,
- Since some fair one I should of force obey.
- Beauty gives heart; Corinna's looks excel;
- Ay me, why is it known to her so well?
- But by her glass disdainful pride she learns,
- Nor she herself, but first trimmed up, discerns.
10 - Not though thy face in all things make thee reign,
- (O face, most cunning mine eyes to detain!)
- Thou ought'st therefore to scorn me for thy mate,
- Small things with greater may be copulate.
- Love-snared Calypso is supposed to pray
- A mortal nymph's refusing lord to stay.
- Who doubts, with Peleus Thetis did consort?
- Egeria with just Numa had good sport.
- Venus with Vulcan, though, smith's tools laid by,
- With his stump foot he halts ill-favouredly.
20 - This kind of verse is not alike; yet fit,
- With shorter numbers the heroic sit.
- And thou, my light, accept me howsoever;
- Lay in the mid bed, there be my lawgiver.
- My stay no crime, my flight no joy shall breed,
- Nor of our love, to be ashamed we need.
- For great revenues I good verses have,
- And many by me to get glory crave.
- I know a wench reports herself Corinne;
- What would not she give that fair name to win?
30 - But sundry floods in one bank never go,
- Eurotas cold, and poplar-bearing Po;
- Nor in my books shall one but thou be writ,
- Thou dost alone give matter to my wit.
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