An acrostick upon the name of Mrs Elizabeth Ball Seguin, James. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A59069 of text R219083 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S2413B). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A59069 Wing S2413B ESTC R219083 99830611 99830611 35064 2248497816

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A59069) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 35064) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2077:19) An acrostick upon the name of Mrs Elizabeth Ball Seguin, James. [2], 2 p. s.n., [S.l. : 1700?] Caption title. Signed: James Seguin. Date of publication conjectured by Wing. In verse. Reproduction of the original in the. eng Acrostics -- Early works to 1800. eebo An acrostick upon the name of Mrs Elizabeth Ball. Seguin, James 1700 4 550 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2009-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-03 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ACROSTICK Upon the Name of Mrs ELIZABETH BALL . Even as the Dew within a Rose , Love captivates poor me , and showes In Charms of Beauty Fetters ly , Sent from thy comely Face , and Eye , All twisted round my bleeding Heart , Bound fast with Love , in every Part. ' Ere thou pass Sentence on my Death , Take pity on me , and bequeath Health by a single Smile , that I Be not so soon compell'd to Die . All that I beg at present's this , Let Love present me with a Kiss ; Lest not obtaining my desire , My Life into your breast expire . JAMES SEGVIN .
Then let not Beauty make you proud , My Passion to despise ; Nor blushing tincture of your Blood , Nor sweetness of your Eyes : To Age , and Time , you must resign , What Nature fondly lent ; And you shall wish you had been mine , And die , for discontent .
TO Mrs ELIZABETH BALL . FOR Heaven's sake , what d' you mean to do ? Keep me , or let me go , one of the two ; Youth and warm hours let me not idly lose , The little Time that Love does chuse ; If always here I must not stay , Let me be gone , whilest yet 't is day ; Lest I faint , and benighted lose my way . 'T is dismal , One so long to Love In vain ; till to Love more as vain must prove : To hunt so long on nimble prey , till we Too weary to make others be ; Alas , 't is folly to remain , And waste our Army thus in vain , Before a City which will ne're be ta'ne . At several hopes wisely to fly , Ought not to be esteem'd Inconstancy ; 'T is more Inconstant always to pursue A thing that always flies from you ; For that at last may meet a bound , But no end can to this be found , 'T is nought but a perpetual fruitless Round . When it does Hardness meet and Pride , My Love does then rebound t' another side ; But if ought that 's soft and yielding hit ; It lodges and stays in it . Whatever 't is shall first love me , That it my Heaven may truly be , I shall be sure to giv 't Eternitie . Go bid the Needle his dear North forsake , To which with trembling rev'erence it does bend ; Go bid th' Stones a journey upwards make ; Go bid th' ambitious Flame no more ascend : And when these false to their old motions prove , Then shall I cease Thee , Thee alone to Love . The fast-link'd Chain of Everlasting Fate Does nothing tye more strong , than Me to You ; My fixt Love hangs not on your Love or Hate ; But will be still the same , whate're you do . You cannot kill my Love with your disdain , Wound it you may , and make it live in pain . JAMES SEGVIN .