SOME man unworthy to be possessorOf old or new love, himselfe being false or weake,Thought his paine and shame would be lesser,If on womankind he might his anger wreake,5And thence a law did grow,One might but one man know;But are other creatures so?Are Sunne, Moone, or Starres by law forbidden,To smile where they list, or lend away their light?10Are birds divorc'd, or are they chiddenIf they leave their mate, or lie abroad a night?Beasts doe no joyntures loseThough they new lovers choose,But we are made worse then those.15Who e'r rigg'd faire ship to lie in harbors,And not to seeke new lands, or not to deale withall?Or built faire houses, set trees, and arbors,Only to lock up, or else to let them fall?Good is not good, unlesse20A thousand it possesse,But doth wast with greedinesse.
SOME man unworthy to be possessorOf old or new love, himselfe being false or weake,Thought his paine and shame would be lesser,If on womankind he might his anger wreake,5And thence a law did grow,One might but one man know;But are other creatures so?
SOME man unworthy to be possessor
Of old or new love, himselfe being false or weake,
Thought his paine and shame would be lesser,
If on womankind he might his anger wreake,
5And thence a law did grow,
One might but one man know;
But are other creatures so?
Are Sunne, Moone, or Starres by law forbidden,To smile where they list, or lend away their light?10Are birds divorc'd, or are they chiddenIf they leave their mate, or lie abroad a night?Beasts doe no joyntures loseThough they new lovers choose,But we are made worse then those.
Are Sunne, Moone, or Starres by law forbidden,
To smile where they list, or lend away their light?
10Are birds divorc'd, or are they chidden
If they leave their mate, or lie abroad a night?
Beasts doe no joyntures lose
Though they new lovers choose,
But we are made worse then those.
15Who e'r rigg'd faire ship to lie in harbors,And not to seeke new lands, or not to deale withall?Or built faire houses, set trees, and arbors,Only to lock up, or else to let them fall?Good is not good, unlesse20A thousand it possesse,But doth wast with greedinesse.
15Who e'r rigg'd faire ship to lie in harbors,
And not to seeke new lands, or not to deale withall?
Or built faire houses, set trees, and arbors,
Only to lock up, or else to let them fall?
Good is not good, unlesse
20A thousand it possesse,
But doth wast with greedinesse.
Confined Love1635-69:no title,1633,A18,B,D,H49,JC,L74,Lec,N,O'F,TCC,TCD:To the worthiest of all my lovers.Cy:To the of all my loves my virtuous mistriss.P3 his] this1669lesser] the lesserA18,Cy,JC,P6 might1633-69:shouldB,Cy,D,H49,JC,L74,Lec,O'F,S,TC9 lend] bend166911 mate,1633-39:meate,1650:meat,1669a night (i.e.a-night)1633-54:all night166912 Beasts] Beast163515 ship] ships1669,Chambers16 seeke new lands1633-35 and MSS.:seeke lands1639-69,Chambers, whose note is incorrectwithall1633:with all1635-6917 built1633-35:build1639-69
Confined Love1635-69:no title,1633,A18,B,D,H49,JC,L74,Lec,N,O'F,TCC,TCD:To the worthiest of all my lovers.Cy:To the of all my loves my virtuous mistriss.P
3 his] this1669
lesser] the lesserA18,Cy,JC,P
6 might1633-69:shouldB,Cy,D,H49,JC,L74,Lec,O'F,S,TC
9 lend] bend1669
11 mate,1633-39:meate,1650:meat,1669
a night (i.e.a-night)1633-54:all night1669
12 Beasts] Beast1635
15 ship] ships1669,Chambers
16 seeke new lands1633-35 and MSS.:seeke lands1639-69,Chambers, whose note is incorrect
withall1633:with all1635-69
17 built1633-35:build1639-69
Note
Note (Supp.)
DEARE love, for nothing lesse then theeWould I have broke this happy dreame,It was a theameFor reason, much too strong for phantasie,5Therefore thou wakd'st me wisely; yetMy Dreame thou brok'st not, but continued'st it,Thou art so truth, that thoughts of thee suffice,To make dreames truths; and fables histories;Enter these armes, for since thou thoughtst it best,10Not to dreame all my dreame, let's act the rest.As lightning, or a Tapers light,Thine eyes, and not thy noise wak'd mee;Yet I thought thee(For thou lovest truth) an Angell, at first sight,15But when I saw thou sawest my heart,And knew'st my thoughts, beyond an Angels art,When thou knew'st what I dreamt, when thou knew'st whenExcesse of joy would wake me, and cam'st then,I must confesse, it could not chuse but bee20Prophane, to thinke thee any thing but thee.Comming and staying show'd thee, thee,But rising makes me doubt, that now,Thou art not thou.That love is weake, where feare's as strong as hee;25'Tis not all spirit, pure, and brave,If mixture it ofFeare,Shame,Honor, have.Perchance as torches which must ready bee,Men light and put out, so thou deal'st with mee,Thou cam'st to kindle, goest to come; Then I30Will dreame that hope againe, but else would die.
DEARE love, for nothing lesse then theeWould I have broke this happy dreame,It was a theameFor reason, much too strong for phantasie,5Therefore thou wakd'st me wisely; yetMy Dreame thou brok'st not, but continued'st it,Thou art so truth, that thoughts of thee suffice,To make dreames truths; and fables histories;Enter these armes, for since thou thoughtst it best,10Not to dreame all my dreame, let's act the rest.
DEARE love, for nothing lesse then thee
Would I have broke this happy dreame,
It was a theame
For reason, much too strong for phantasie,
5Therefore thou wakd'st me wisely; yet
My Dreame thou brok'st not, but continued'st it,
Thou art so truth, that thoughts of thee suffice,
To make dreames truths; and fables histories;
Enter these armes, for since thou thoughtst it best,
10Not to dreame all my dreame, let's act the rest.
As lightning, or a Tapers light,Thine eyes, and not thy noise wak'd mee;Yet I thought thee(For thou lovest truth) an Angell, at first sight,15But when I saw thou sawest my heart,And knew'st my thoughts, beyond an Angels art,When thou knew'st what I dreamt, when thou knew'st whenExcesse of joy would wake me, and cam'st then,I must confesse, it could not chuse but bee20Prophane, to thinke thee any thing but thee.
As lightning, or a Tapers light,
Thine eyes, and not thy noise wak'd mee;
Yet I thought thee
(For thou lovest truth) an Angell, at first sight,
15But when I saw thou sawest my heart,
And knew'st my thoughts, beyond an Angels art,
When thou knew'st what I dreamt, when thou knew'st when
Excesse of joy would wake me, and cam'st then,
I must confesse, it could not chuse but bee
20Prophane, to thinke thee any thing but thee.
Comming and staying show'd thee, thee,But rising makes me doubt, that now,Thou art not thou.That love is weake, where feare's as strong as hee;25'Tis not all spirit, pure, and brave,If mixture it ofFeare,Shame,Honor, have.Perchance as torches which must ready bee,Men light and put out, so thou deal'st with mee,Thou cam'st to kindle, goest to come; Then I30Will dreame that hope againe, but else would die.
Comming and staying show'd thee, thee,
But rising makes me doubt, that now,
Thou art not thou.
That love is weake, where feare's as strong as hee;
25'Tis not all spirit, pure, and brave,
If mixture it ofFeare,Shame,Honor, have.
Perchance as torches which must ready bee,
Men light and put out, so thou deal'st with mee,
Thou cam'st to kindle, goest to come; Then I
30Will dreame that hope againe, but else would die.
The Dreame.1633-69:do. or similarly,A18,A25,B,C,Cy,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,O'F,P,RP31,S,S96,TCC,TCD6 brok'st ... continued'st] breakest ... continuest1669,A25,C,P,S7 so truth,1633,A18,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,TC:so true,1635-69,A25,B,C,Cy,O'F,P,S.See note10 act] doeA25,B,Cy,D,H49,L74,Lec,O'F,P,S,S9614 an Angell,] but an Angell,A18,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,TC16 thoughts,]om. comma Grolier and Chambers.See Note17 then thou knew'st when166919 must] doeA18,A25,B,Cy,D,H49,Lec,N,O'F,P,TC20 Prophane,] ProfanessA18,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,S96,TC24 feare's as strong1635-54,A18,D,H49,L74,Lec,TCC:feares are strong1669,B,Cy,O'F,P,S,S96:feare is strong,N,TCD26 have.1669:have;1633-5429 cam'st] com'st1669Then I] Thus IA18,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,TC(RP31 agrees with this group throughout)
The Dreame.1633-69:do. or similarly,A18,A25,B,C,Cy,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,O'F,P,RP31,S,S96,TCC,TCD
6 brok'st ... continued'st] breakest ... continuest1669,A25,C,P,S
7 so truth,1633,A18,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,TC:so true,1635-69,A25,B,C,Cy,O'F,P,S.See note
10 act] doeA25,B,Cy,D,H49,L74,Lec,O'F,P,S,S96
14 an Angell,] but an Angell,A18,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,TC
16 thoughts,]om. comma Grolier and Chambers.See Note
17 then thou knew'st when1669
19 must] doeA18,A25,B,Cy,D,H49,Lec,N,O'F,P,TC
20 Prophane,] ProfanessA18,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,S96,TC
24 feare's as strong1635-54,A18,D,H49,L74,Lec,TCC:feares are strong1669,B,Cy,O'F,P,S,S96:feare is strong,N,TCD
26 have.1669:have;1633-54
29 cam'st] com'st1669
Then I] Thus IA18,D,H49,L74,Lec,N,TC(RP31 agrees with this group throughout)
Note
LET me powre forthMy teares before thy face, whil'st I stay here,For thy face coines them, and thy stampe they beare,And by this Mintage they are something worth,5For thus they beePregnant of thee;Fruits of much griefe they are, emblemes of more,When a teare falls, that thou falst which it bore,So thou and I are nothing then, when on a divers shore.10On a round ballA workeman that hath copies by, can layAn Europe, Afrique, and an Asia,And quickly make that, which was nothing,All,So doth each teare,15Which thee doth weare,A globe, yea world by that impression grow,Till thy teares mixt with mine doe overflowThis world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.O more then Moone,20Draw not up seas to drowne me in thy spheare,Weepe me not dead, in thine armes, but forbeareTo teach the sea, what it may doe too soone;Let not the windeExample finde,25To doe me more harme, then it purposeth;Since thou and I sigh one anothers breath,Who e'r sighes most, is cruellest, and hasts the others death.
LET me powre forthMy teares before thy face, whil'st I stay here,For thy face coines them, and thy stampe they beare,And by this Mintage they are something worth,5For thus they beePregnant of thee;Fruits of much griefe they are, emblemes of more,When a teare falls, that thou falst which it bore,So thou and I are nothing then, when on a divers shore.
LET me powre forth
My teares before thy face, whil'st I stay here,
For thy face coines them, and thy stampe they beare,
And by this Mintage they are something worth,
5For thus they bee
Pregnant of thee;
Fruits of much griefe they are, emblemes of more,
When a teare falls, that thou falst which it bore,
So thou and I are nothing then, when on a divers shore.
10On a round ballA workeman that hath copies by, can layAn Europe, Afrique, and an Asia,And quickly make that, which was nothing,All,So doth each teare,15Which thee doth weare,A globe, yea world by that impression grow,Till thy teares mixt with mine doe overflowThis world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.
10On a round ball
A workeman that hath copies by, can lay
An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia,
And quickly make that, which was nothing,All,
So doth each teare,
15Which thee doth weare,
A globe, yea world by that impression grow,
Till thy teares mixt with mine doe overflow
This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.
O more then Moone,20Draw not up seas to drowne me in thy spheare,Weepe me not dead, in thine armes, but forbeareTo teach the sea, what it may doe too soone;Let not the windeExample finde,25To doe me more harme, then it purposeth;Since thou and I sigh one anothers breath,Who e'r sighes most, is cruellest, and hasts the others death.
O more then Moone,
20Draw not up seas to drowne me in thy spheare,
Weepe me not dead, in thine armes, but forbeare
To teach the sea, what it may doe too soone;
Let not the winde
Example finde,
25To doe me more harme, then it purposeth;
Since thou and I sigh one anothers breath,
Who e'r sighes most, is cruellest, and hasts the others death.
A Valediction: of&c.Ed:A Valediction of weeping.1633-69:Valediction of Weeping.A18,N,TCC,TCD:A Valediction.B,D,H40,H49,L74,Lec:A Valediction of Teares.Cy,S,S96:Valediction 2. Of Tears.O'F:no title,JC3 beare,1633:beare;1635-696 thee;Ed:thee,1633-698 falst1633-69:fallsA18,D,H49,JC,L74,Lec,N,S,TC9 shore.] shore,163313All,1633:All1635:All.1639:All:1650-6916 world] would166920 up seas] thy seas166922 soone;Ed:soone,1633-6925 purposeth;Ed:purposeth,1633-69
A Valediction: of&c.Ed:A Valediction of weeping.1633-69:Valediction of Weeping.A18,N,TCC,TCD:A Valediction.B,D,H40,H49,L74,Lec:A Valediction of Teares.Cy,S,S96:Valediction 2. Of Tears.O'F:no title,JC
3 beare,1633:beare;1635-69
6 thee;Ed:thee,1633-69
8 falst1633-69:fallsA18,D,H49,JC,L74,Lec,N,S,TC
9 shore.] shore,1633
13All,1633:All1635:All.1639:All:1650-69
16 world] would1669
20 up seas] thy seas1669
22 soone;Ed:soone,1633-69
25 purposeth;Ed:purposeth,1633-69
Note
SOME that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I,Say, where his centrique happinesse doth lie:I have lov'd, and got, and told,But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,5I should not finde that hidden mysterie;Oh, 'tis imposture all:And as no chymique yet th'Elixar got,But glorifies his pregnant pot,If by the way to him befall10Some odoriferous thing, or medicinall,So, lovers dreame a rich and long delight,But get a winter-seeming summers night.Our ease, our thrift, our honor, and our day,Shall we, for this vaine Bubles shadow pay?15Ends love in this, that my man,Can be as happy'as I can; If he canEndure the short scorne of a Bridegroomes play?That loving wretch that sweares,'Tis not the bodies marry, but the mindes,20Which he in her Angelique findes,Would sweare as justly, that he heares,In that dayes rude hoarse minstralsey, the spheares.Hope not for minde in women; at their bestSweetnesse and wit, they'are butMummy, possest.
SOME that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I,Say, where his centrique happinesse doth lie:I have lov'd, and got, and told,But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,5I should not finde that hidden mysterie;Oh, 'tis imposture all:And as no chymique yet th'Elixar got,But glorifies his pregnant pot,If by the way to him befall10Some odoriferous thing, or medicinall,So, lovers dreame a rich and long delight,But get a winter-seeming summers night.
SOME that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I,
Say, where his centrique happinesse doth lie:
I have lov'd, and got, and told,
But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,
5I should not finde that hidden mysterie;
Oh, 'tis imposture all:
And as no chymique yet th'Elixar got,
But glorifies his pregnant pot,
If by the way to him befall
10Some odoriferous thing, or medicinall,
So, lovers dreame a rich and long delight,
But get a winter-seeming summers night.
Our ease, our thrift, our honor, and our day,Shall we, for this vaine Bubles shadow pay?15Ends love in this, that my man,Can be as happy'as I can; If he canEndure the short scorne of a Bridegroomes play?That loving wretch that sweares,'Tis not the bodies marry, but the mindes,20Which he in her Angelique findes,Would sweare as justly, that he heares,In that dayes rude hoarse minstralsey, the spheares.Hope not for minde in women; at their bestSweetnesse and wit, they'are butMummy, possest.
Our ease, our thrift, our honor, and our day,
Shall we, for this vaine Bubles shadow pay?
15Ends love in this, that my man,
Can be as happy'as I can; If he can
Endure the short scorne of a Bridegroomes play?
That loving wretch that sweares,
'Tis not the bodies marry, but the mindes,
20Which he in her Angelique findes,
Would sweare as justly, that he heares,
In that dayes rude hoarse minstralsey, the spheares.
Hope not for minde in women; at their best
Sweetnesse and wit, they'are butMummy, possest.
Loves Alchymie.1633-69:Mummye.A18,B,Cy,D,H40,H49,JC,L74(or Alchymy.added in a later hand),Lec,N,O'F,S,S96,TCC,TCD:Elegie.P:no title,A2514 BublesBubless1669]15 my1633-69 and MSS.: anyS96,1855,and Grolier(perhaps from some copy of 1633)23-4punctuation from MSS:at their best,Sweetnesse, and wit they'are, but,Mummy, possest.1633-54:1669 omits all punctuation in these lines
Loves Alchymie.1633-69:Mummye.A18,B,Cy,D,H40,H49,JC,L74(or Alchymy.added in a later hand),Lec,N,O'F,S,S96,TCC,TCD:Elegie.P:no title,A25
14 Bubles
15 my1633-69 and MSS.: anyS96,1855,and Grolier(perhaps from some copy of 1633)
23-4punctuation from MSS:
at their best,Sweetnesse, and wit they'are, but,Mummy, possest.1633-54:
at their best,Sweetnesse, and wit they'are, but,Mummy, possest.1633-54:
at their best,
Sweetnesse, and wit they'are, but,Mummy, possest.1633-54:
1669 omits all punctuation in these lines
Note
MARKE but this flea, and marke in this,How little that which thou deny'st me is;It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,And in this flea, our two bloods mingled bee;5Thou know'st that this cannot be saidA sinne, nor shame, nor losse of maidenhead,Yet this enjoyes before it wooe,And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two,And this, alas, is more then wee would doe.10Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,Where wee almost, yea more then maryed are.This flea is you and I, and thisOur mariage bed, and mariage temple is;Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,15And cloysterd in these living walls of Jet.Though use make you apt to kill mee,Let not to that, selfe murder added bee,And sacrilege, three sinnes in killing three.Cruell and sodaine, hast thou since20Purpled thy naile, in blood of innocence?Wherein could this flea guilty bee,Except in that drop which it suckt from thee?Yet thou triumph'st, and saist that thouFind'st not thy selfe, nor mee the weaker now;25'Tis true, then learne how false, feares bee;Just so much honor, when thou yeeld'st to mee,Will wast, as this flea's death tooke life from thee.
MARKE but this flea, and marke in this,How little that which thou deny'st me is;It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,And in this flea, our two bloods mingled bee;5Thou know'st that this cannot be saidA sinne, nor shame, nor losse of maidenhead,Yet this enjoyes before it wooe,And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two,And this, alas, is more then wee would doe.
MARKE but this flea, and marke in this,
How little that which thou deny'st me is;
It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea, our two bloods mingled bee;
5Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sinne, nor shame, nor losse of maidenhead,
Yet this enjoyes before it wooe,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two,
And this, alas, is more then wee would doe.
10Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,Where wee almost, yea more then maryed are.This flea is you and I, and thisOur mariage bed, and mariage temple is;Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,15And cloysterd in these living walls of Jet.Though use make you apt to kill mee,Let not to that, selfe murder added bee,And sacrilege, three sinnes in killing three.
10Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where wee almost, yea more then maryed are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our mariage bed, and mariage temple is;
Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,
15And cloysterd in these living walls of Jet.
Though use make you apt to kill mee,
Let not to that, selfe murder added bee,
And sacrilege, three sinnes in killing three.
Cruell and sodaine, hast thou since20Purpled thy naile, in blood of innocence?Wherein could this flea guilty bee,Except in that drop which it suckt from thee?Yet thou triumph'st, and saist that thouFind'st not thy selfe, nor mee the weaker now;25'Tis true, then learne how false, feares bee;Just so much honor, when thou yeeld'st to mee,Will wast, as this flea's death tooke life from thee.
Cruell and sodaine, hast thou since
20Purpled thy naile, in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty bee,
Except in that drop which it suckt from thee?
Yet thou triumph'st, and saist that thou
Find'st not thy selfe, nor mee the weaker now;
25'Tis true, then learne how false, feares bee;
Just so much honor, when thou yeeld'st to mee,
Will wast, as this flea's death tooke life from thee.
The Fleais placed here in the 1633 edition:1635-69 place it at beginning ofSongs and Sonets: The Flea.or no title,A18,A25,B,C,Cy,D,H40,H49,L74,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TCC,TCD3 It suckt mee first,1633-54,D,H49,Lec,S96:Mee it suck'd first,1669,A18,A25,B,C,Cy,L74,N,P,S,TCand now sucks] and now it sucks16695 Thou know'st that1633-54,D,H49,Lec:Confess it. This cannot be said1669,A18,A25,B,Cy,H40,L74,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TC6 nor shame, nor losse1633-54(shame1633),D,H49,Lec:or shame, or loss1669,A18,A25,B,Cy,H40,L74,N,O'F,P,TC9 would] could166911 yea,1633-54,D,H49,Lec:nay,1669,A18,A25,B,C,H40,L74,N,O'F,S,TC16 you] theeA18,Cy,N,O'F,S,S96,TC21 Wherein] In whatA18,A25,B,Cy,L74,N,O'F,S,S96,TC22 drop] blood1669
The Fleais placed here in the 1633 edition:1635-69 place it at beginning ofSongs and Sonets: The Flea.or no title,A18,A25,B,C,Cy,D,H40,H49,L74,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TCC,TCD
3 It suckt mee first,1633-54,D,H49,Lec,S96:Mee it suck'd first,1669,A18,A25,B,C,Cy,L74,N,P,S,TC
and now sucks] and now it sucks1669
5 Thou know'st that1633-54,D,H49,Lec:Confess it. This cannot be said1669,A18,A25,B,Cy,H40,L74,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TC
6 nor shame, nor losse1633-54(shame1633),D,H49,Lec:or shame, or loss1669,A18,A25,B,Cy,H40,L74,N,O'F,P,TC
9 would] could1669
11 yea,1633-54,D,H49,Lec:nay,1669,A18,A25,B,C,H40,L74,N,O'F,S,TC
16 you] theeA18,Cy,N,O'F,S,S96,TC
21 Wherein] In whatA18,A25,B,Cy,L74,N,O'F,S,S96,TC
22 drop] blood1669
Note
WHO ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowesWho is my mistris, wither by this curse;His only, and only his purseMay some dull heart to love dispose,5And shee yeeld then to all that are his foes;May he be scorn'd by one, whom all else scorne,Forsweare to others, what to her he'hath sworne,With feare of missing, shame of getting, torne:Madnesse his sorrow, gout his cramp, may hee10Make, by but thinking, who hath made him such:And may he feele no touchOf conscience, but of fame, and beeAnguish'd, not that'twas sinne, but that'twas shee:In early and long scarcenesse may he rot,15For land which had been his, if he had notHimselfe incestuously an heire begot:May he dreame Treason, and beleeve, that heeMeant to performe it, and confesse, and die,And no record tell why:20His sonnes, which none of his may bee,Inherite nothing but his infamie:Or may he so long Parasites have fed,That he would faine be theirs, whom he hath bred,And at the last be circumcis'd for bread:25The venom of all stepdames, gamsters gall,What Tyrans, and their subjects interwish,What Plants, Mynes, Beasts, Foule, Fish,Can contribute, all ill which allProphets, or Poets spake; And all which shall30Be annex'd in schedules unto this by mee,Fall on that man; For if it be a sheeNature before hand hath out-cursed mee.
WHO ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowesWho is my mistris, wither by this curse;His only, and only his purseMay some dull heart to love dispose,5And shee yeeld then to all that are his foes;May he be scorn'd by one, whom all else scorne,Forsweare to others, what to her he'hath sworne,With feare of missing, shame of getting, torne:
WHO ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes
Who is my mistris, wither by this curse;
His only, and only his purse
May some dull heart to love dispose,
5And shee yeeld then to all that are his foes;
May he be scorn'd by one, whom all else scorne,
Forsweare to others, what to her he'hath sworne,
With feare of missing, shame of getting, torne:
Madnesse his sorrow, gout his cramp, may hee10Make, by but thinking, who hath made him such:And may he feele no touchOf conscience, but of fame, and beeAnguish'd, not that'twas sinne, but that'twas shee:In early and long scarcenesse may he rot,15For land which had been his, if he had notHimselfe incestuously an heire begot:
Madnesse his sorrow, gout his cramp, may hee
10Make, by but thinking, who hath made him such:
And may he feele no touch
Of conscience, but of fame, and bee
Anguish'd, not that'twas sinne, but that'twas shee:
In early and long scarcenesse may he rot,
15For land which had been his, if he had not
Himselfe incestuously an heire begot:
May he dreame Treason, and beleeve, that heeMeant to performe it, and confesse, and die,And no record tell why:20His sonnes, which none of his may bee,Inherite nothing but his infamie:Or may he so long Parasites have fed,That he would faine be theirs, whom he hath bred,And at the last be circumcis'd for bread:
May he dreame Treason, and beleeve, that hee
Meant to performe it, and confesse, and die,
And no record tell why:
20His sonnes, which none of his may bee,
Inherite nothing but his infamie:
Or may he so long Parasites have fed,
That he would faine be theirs, whom he hath bred,
And at the last be circumcis'd for bread:
25The venom of all stepdames, gamsters gall,What Tyrans, and their subjects interwish,What Plants, Mynes, Beasts, Foule, Fish,Can contribute, all ill which allProphets, or Poets spake; And all which shall30Be annex'd in schedules unto this by mee,Fall on that man; For if it be a sheeNature before hand hath out-cursed mee.
25The venom of all stepdames, gamsters gall,
What Tyrans, and their subjects interwish,
What Plants, Mynes, Beasts, Foule, Fish,
Can contribute, all ill which all
Prophets, or Poets spake; And all which shall
30Be annex'd in schedules unto this by mee,
Fall on that man; For if it be a shee
Nature before hand hath out-cursed mee.
The Curse.1633-69:A Curse.orThe Curse.A18,A25,B,C,D,H40,H49,JC,L74,Lec,N,O'F,S,TCC,TCD:Dirae.P,Q2 curse] course16693 His only, and only his purse1633-54,A18,A25,B,C,D,H40,H49,JC,L74,Lec,N,O'F,S,TC:Him, only for his purse1669,Chambers:His one and his onely purseP4 heart1633-54 and MSS.:whore1669 and Chambers5 And she yeeld then to1633-54 and MSS.:And then yield unto1669,Chambers8 getting,Ed:getting1633-69torne:Ed:torne;1633-54:torne.1669.Compare16and249 cramp,] cramps,1669,Chambers,and most MSS.10 him1633-54 and MSS.:them1669,Chambers12 fame,] shame;A18,A25,N,P,TC14-16 In early and long scarceness ... an heire begot:1633,B,D,H40,H49,Lec,O'F(which gives alternate version in margin),S:Or may he for her vertue reverenceOne that hates him onely for impotence,And equall Traitors be she and his sense.1635-69,A18,A25,C,JC,N,P,Q,S,TC18 Meant] WentA18,N,TC26 Tyrans,1633-35:Tyrants,1639:tyrants,1650-6927 Mynes,A18,A25,B,H40,JC,L74,N,O'F,P,Q,S,TC:Myne,1633-69,D,H49,Lec28 ill1669:ill,1633-54
The Curse.1633-69:A Curse.orThe Curse.A18,A25,B,C,D,H40,H49,JC,L74,Lec,N,O'F,S,TCC,TCD:Dirae.P,Q
2 curse] course1669
3 His only, and only his purse1633-54,A18,A25,B,C,D,H40,H49,JC,L74,Lec,N,O'F,S,TC:Him, only for his purse1669,Chambers:His one and his onely purseP
4 heart1633-54 and MSS.:whore1669 and Chambers
5 And she yeeld then to1633-54 and MSS.:And then yield unto1669,Chambers
8 getting,Ed:getting1633-69
torne:Ed:torne;1633-54:torne.1669.Compare16and24
9 cramp,] cramps,1669,Chambers,and most MSS.
10 him1633-54 and MSS.:them1669,Chambers
12 fame,] shame;A18,A25,N,P,TC
14-16 In early and long scarceness ... an heire begot:1633,B,D,H40,H49,Lec,O'F(which gives alternate version in margin),S:
Or may he for her vertue reverenceOne that hates him onely for impotence,And equall Traitors be she and his sense.
Or may he for her vertue reverenceOne that hates him onely for impotence,And equall Traitors be she and his sense.
Or may he for her vertue reverence
One that hates him onely for impotence,
And equall Traitors be she and his sense.
1635-69,A18,A25,C,JC,N,P,Q,S,TC
18 Meant] WentA18,N,TC
26 Tyrans,1633-35:Tyrants,1639:tyrants,1650-69
27 Mynes,A18,A25,B,H40,JC,L74,N,O'F,P,Q,S,TC:Myne,1633-69,D,H49,Lec
28 ill1669:ill,1633-54
Note
SEND home my long strayd eyes to mee,Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee;Yet since there they have learn'd such ill,Such forc'd fashions,5And false passions,That they beMade by theeFit for no good sight, keep them still.Send home my harmlesse heart againe,10Which no unworthy thought could staine;But if it be taught by thineTo make jestingsOf protestings,And crosse both15Word and oath,Keepe it, for then 'tis none of mine.Yet send me back my heart and eyes,That I may know, and see thy lyes,And may laugh and joy, when thou20Art in anguishAnd dost languishFor some oneThat will none,Or prove as false as thou art now.
SEND home my long strayd eyes to mee,Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee;Yet since there they have learn'd such ill,Such forc'd fashions,5And false passions,That they beMade by theeFit for no good sight, keep them still.
SEND home my long strayd eyes to mee,
Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee;
Yet since there they have learn'd such ill,
Such forc'd fashions,
5And false passions,
That they be
Made by thee
Fit for no good sight, keep them still.
Send home my harmlesse heart againe,10Which no unworthy thought could staine;But if it be taught by thineTo make jestingsOf protestings,And crosse both15Word and oath,Keepe it, for then 'tis none of mine.
Send home my harmlesse heart againe,
10Which no unworthy thought could staine;
But if it be taught by thine
To make jestings
Of protestings,
And crosse both
15Word and oath,
Keepe it, for then 'tis none of mine.
Yet send me back my heart and eyes,That I may know, and see thy lyes,And may laugh and joy, when thou20Art in anguishAnd dost languishFor some oneThat will none,Or prove as false as thou art now.
Yet send me back my heart and eyes,
That I may know, and see thy lyes,
And may laugh and joy, when thou
20Art in anguish
And dost languish
For some one
That will none,
Or prove as false as thou art now.
The Message.1635-69:no title,1633:Song.or no title,A25,B,Cy,D,H49,JC,Lec,O'F,S,S96:Sonnet.P:Songes wchwere made to&c.(vid. sup.p.18)A18,N,TCC,TCD2 thee;Ed:thee,1633-693 But if they there1669,S10 staine;] staine,1633-6911 But1635-69:Which1633,A18,A25,D,H49,Lec,N,TC14 crosse,A18,A25,B,Cy,D,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TC:breake1633-6916 Keep it still 'tis166919 And may laugh, when that ThouD,H49,Lec24 art now.] dost now.1669
The Message.1635-69:no title,1633:Song.or no title,A25,B,Cy,D,H49,JC,Lec,O'F,S,S96:Sonnet.P:Songes wchwere made to&c.(vid. sup.p.18)A18,N,TCC,TCD
2 thee;Ed:thee,1633-69
3 But if they there1669,S
10 staine;] staine,1633-69
11 But1635-69:Which1633,A18,A25,D,H49,Lec,N,TC
14 crosse,A18,A25,B,Cy,D,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TC:breake1633-69
16 Keep it still 'tis1669
19 And may laugh, when that ThouD,H49,Lec
24 art now.] dost now.1669
Note
Being the shortest day.
TIS the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes,Lucies, who scarce seaven houres herself unmaskes,The Sunne is spent, and now his flasksSend forth light squibs, no constant rayes;5The worlds whole sap is sunke:The generall balme th'hydroptique earth hath drunk,Whither, as to the beds-feet, life is shrunke,Dead and enterr'd; yet all these seeme to laugh,Compar'd with mee, who am their Epitaph.10Study me then, you who shall lovers beeAt the next world, that is, at the next Spring:For I am every dead thing,In whom love wrought new Alchimie.For his art did expresse15A quintessence even from nothingnesse,From dull privations, and leane emptinesse:He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begotOf absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.All others, from all things, draw all that's good,20Life, soule, forme, spirit, whence they beeing have;I, by loves limbecke, am the graveOf all, that's nothing. Oft a floodHave wee two wept, and soDrownd the whole world, us two; oft did we grow25To be two Chaosses, when we did showCare to ought else; and often absencesWithdrew our soules, and made us carcasses.But I am by her death, (which word wrongs her)Of the first nothing, the Elixer grown;30Were I a man, that I were one,I needs must know; I should preferre,If I were any beast,Some ends, some means; Yea plants, yea stones detest,And love; All, all some properties invest;35If I an ordinary nothing were,As shadow, a light, and body must be here.But I am None; nor will my Sunne renew.You lovers, for whose sake, the lesser SunneAt this time to the Goat is runne40To fetch new lust, and give it you,Enjoy your summer all;Since shee enjoyes her long nights festivall,Let mee prepare towards her, and let mee callThis houre her Vigill, and her Eve, since this45Both the yeares, and the dayes deep midnight is.
TIS the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes,Lucies, who scarce seaven houres herself unmaskes,The Sunne is spent, and now his flasksSend forth light squibs, no constant rayes;5The worlds whole sap is sunke:The generall balme th'hydroptique earth hath drunk,Whither, as to the beds-feet, life is shrunke,Dead and enterr'd; yet all these seeme to laugh,Compar'd with mee, who am their Epitaph.
TIS the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes,
Lucies, who scarce seaven houres herself unmaskes,
The Sunne is spent, and now his flasks
Send forth light squibs, no constant rayes;
5The worlds whole sap is sunke:
The generall balme th'hydroptique earth hath drunk,
Whither, as to the beds-feet, life is shrunke,
Dead and enterr'd; yet all these seeme to laugh,
Compar'd with mee, who am their Epitaph.
10Study me then, you who shall lovers beeAt the next world, that is, at the next Spring:For I am every dead thing,In whom love wrought new Alchimie.For his art did expresse15A quintessence even from nothingnesse,From dull privations, and leane emptinesse:He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begotOf absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.
10Study me then, you who shall lovers bee
At the next world, that is, at the next Spring:
For I am every dead thing,
In whom love wrought new Alchimie.
For his art did expresse
15A quintessence even from nothingnesse,
From dull privations, and leane emptinesse:
He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.
All others, from all things, draw all that's good,20Life, soule, forme, spirit, whence they beeing have;I, by loves limbecke, am the graveOf all, that's nothing. Oft a floodHave wee two wept, and soDrownd the whole world, us two; oft did we grow25To be two Chaosses, when we did showCare to ought else; and often absencesWithdrew our soules, and made us carcasses.
All others, from all things, draw all that's good,
20Life, soule, forme, spirit, whence they beeing have;
I, by loves limbecke, am the grave
Of all, that's nothing. Oft a flood
Have wee two wept, and so
Drownd the whole world, us two; oft did we grow
25To be two Chaosses, when we did show
Care to ought else; and often absences
Withdrew our soules, and made us carcasses.
But I am by her death, (which word wrongs her)Of the first nothing, the Elixer grown;30Were I a man, that I were one,I needs must know; I should preferre,If I were any beast,Some ends, some means; Yea plants, yea stones detest,And love; All, all some properties invest;35If I an ordinary nothing were,As shadow, a light, and body must be here.
But I am by her death, (which word wrongs her)
Of the first nothing, the Elixer grown;
30Were I a man, that I were one,
I needs must know; I should preferre,
If I were any beast,
Some ends, some means; Yea plants, yea stones detest,
And love; All, all some properties invest;
35If I an ordinary nothing were,
As shadow, a light, and body must be here.
But I am None; nor will my Sunne renew.You lovers, for whose sake, the lesser SunneAt this time to the Goat is runne40To fetch new lust, and give it you,Enjoy your summer all;Since shee enjoyes her long nights festivall,Let mee prepare towards her, and let mee callThis houre her Vigill, and her Eve, since this45Both the yeares, and the dayes deep midnight is.
But I am None; nor will my Sunne renew.
You lovers, for whose sake, the lesser Sunne
At this time to the Goat is runne
40To fetch new lust, and give it you,
Enjoy your summer all;
Since shee enjoyes her long nights festivall,
Let mee prepare towards her, and let mee call
This houre her Vigill, and her Eve, since this
45Both the yeares, and the dayes deep midnight is.
A nocturnal&c.1633-69,A18,N,O'F,TCC,TCD7 beds-feet,] beds-feet1633-6912 every1633,A18,N,O'F(altered toa very),TC:a very1635-6916 emptinesse:1719:emptinesse;Chambers and Grolier:emptinesse1633-54:emptinesse,1669.See note20 have;Ed:have,1633-69.31 know;] know,163332 beast,] beast;Grolier34 love; All, allEd:love, all, all1633-69invest;Ed:invest,1633:invest1635-6937 renew.1633:renew,1635-6941 all;Ed:all,1633-69 and Chambers, who places a full stop afterfestivall44 Eve,1650-69:eve,1633-39
A nocturnal&c.1633-69,A18,N,O'F,TCC,TCD
7 beds-feet,] beds-feet1633-69
12 every1633,A18,N,O'F(altered toa very),TC:a very1635-69
16 emptinesse:1719:emptinesse;Chambers and Grolier:emptinesse1633-54:emptinesse,1669.See note
20 have;Ed:have,1633-69.
31 know;] know,1633
32 beast,] beast;Grolier
34 love; All, allEd:love, all, all1633-69
invest;Ed:invest,1633:invest1635-69
37 renew.1633:renew,1635-69
41 all;Ed:all,1633-69 and Chambers, who places a full stop afterfestivall
44 Eve,1650-69:eve,1633-39
IFIXE mine eye on thine, and therePitty my picture burning in thine eye,My picture drown'd in a transparent teare,When I looke lower I espie;5Hadst thou the wicked skillBy pictures made and mard, to kill,How many wayes mightst thou performe thy will?But now I have drunke thy sweet salt teares,And though thou poure more I'll depart;10My picture vanish'd, vanish feares,That I can be endamag'd by that art;Though thou retaine of meeOne picture more, yet that will bee,Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free.
IFIXE mine eye on thine, and therePitty my picture burning in thine eye,My picture drown'd in a transparent teare,When I looke lower I espie;5Hadst thou the wicked skillBy pictures made and mard, to kill,How many wayes mightst thou performe thy will?
IFIXE mine eye on thine, and there
Pitty my picture burning in thine eye,
My picture drown'd in a transparent teare,
When I looke lower I espie;
5Hadst thou the wicked skill
By pictures made and mard, to kill,
How many wayes mightst thou performe thy will?
But now I have drunke thy sweet salt teares,And though thou poure more I'll depart;10My picture vanish'd, vanish feares,That I can be endamag'd by that art;Though thou retaine of meeOne picture more, yet that will bee,Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free.
But now I have drunke thy sweet salt teares,
And though thou poure more I'll depart;
10My picture vanish'd, vanish feares,
That I can be endamag'd by that art;
Though thou retaine of mee
One picture more, yet that will bee,
Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free.
Witchcraft&c.1633-69,A18,N,TCC,TCD:The Picture.orPicture.Cy,JC,O'F,P,S96:A Songe.B4 espie;Ed:espie,1633-696 to kill,Ed:to kill?1633-39:to kill;1650-699 And though] Although1669And though thou therefore poure more will depart;B,H4010 vanish'd, vanish feares,1633,A18,B,Cy,H40,JC,N,P,S96,TC:vanished, vanish all feares1635-54,O'F:vanish, vanish fears,166911 that] thyJC,O'F,S9614 all] thyB,H40,S96
Witchcraft&c.1633-69,A18,N,TCC,TCD:The Picture.orPicture.Cy,JC,O'F,P,S96:A Songe.B
4 espie;Ed:espie,1633-69
6 to kill,Ed:to kill?1633-39:to kill;1650-69
9 And though] Although1669And though thou therefore poure more will depart;B,H40
10 vanish'd, vanish feares,1633,A18,B,Cy,H40,JC,N,P,S96,TC:vanished, vanish all feares1635-54,O'F:vanish, vanish fears,1669
11 that] thyJC,O'F,S96
14 all] thyB,H40,S96
Note: MusicMusic
COME live with mee, and bee my love,And wee will some new pleasures proveOf golden sands, and christall brookes,With silken lines, and silver hookes.5There will the river whispering runneWarm'd by thy eyes, more then the Sunne.And there the'inamor'd fish will stay,Begging themselves they may betray.When thou wilt swimme in that live bath,10Each fish, which every channell hath,Will amorously to thee swimme,Gladder to catch thee, then thou him.If thou, to be so seene, beest loath,By Sunne, or Moone, thou darknest both,15And if my selfe have leave to see,I need not their light, having thee.Let others freeze with angling reeds,And cut their legges, with shells and weeds,Or treacherously poore fish beset,20With strangling snare, or windowie net:Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nestThe bedded fish in banks out-wrest,Or curious traitors, sleavesilke fliesBewitch poore fishes wandring eyes.25For thee, thou needst no such deceit,For thou thy selfe art thine owne bait;That fish, that is not catch'd thereby,Alas, is wiser farre then I.
COME live with mee, and bee my love,And wee will some new pleasures proveOf golden sands, and christall brookes,With silken lines, and silver hookes.
COME live with mee, and bee my love,
And wee will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and christall brookes,
With silken lines, and silver hookes.
5There will the river whispering runneWarm'd by thy eyes, more then the Sunne.And there the'inamor'd fish will stay,Begging themselves they may betray.
5There will the river whispering runne
Warm'd by thy eyes, more then the Sunne.
And there the'inamor'd fish will stay,
Begging themselves they may betray.
When thou wilt swimme in that live bath,10Each fish, which every channell hath,Will amorously to thee swimme,Gladder to catch thee, then thou him.
When thou wilt swimme in that live bath,
10Each fish, which every channell hath,
Will amorously to thee swimme,
Gladder to catch thee, then thou him.
If thou, to be so seene, beest loath,By Sunne, or Moone, thou darknest both,15And if my selfe have leave to see,I need not their light, having thee.
If thou, to be so seene, beest loath,
By Sunne, or Moone, thou darknest both,
15And if my selfe have leave to see,
I need not their light, having thee.
Let others freeze with angling reeds,And cut their legges, with shells and weeds,Or treacherously poore fish beset,20With strangling snare, or windowie net:
Let others freeze with angling reeds,
And cut their legges, with shells and weeds,
Or treacherously poore fish beset,
20With strangling snare, or windowie net:
Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nestThe bedded fish in banks out-wrest,Or curious traitors, sleavesilke fliesBewitch poore fishes wandring eyes.
Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest
The bedded fish in banks out-wrest,
Or curious traitors, sleavesilke flies
Bewitch poore fishes wandring eyes.
25For thee, thou needst no such deceit,For thou thy selfe art thine owne bait;That fish, that is not catch'd thereby,Alas, is wiser farre then I.
25For thee, thou needst no such deceit,
For thou thy selfe art thine owne bait;
That fish, that is not catch'd thereby,
Alas, is wiser farre then I.
The Baite.1635-69:no title,1633:Song.or no title,D,H49,JC,Lec,O'F,P,S96,Walton'sCompleate Angler:Fourth Day:Chap. XII.:Songs that were made&c.(vid. sup. p.18)A18,N,TCC,TCD2 some new] all theP3 brookes,Ed:brookes:1633-695 whispering1633:whispring1635-696 thy] thine1669,A18,N,TC7 inamor'd] enamelledWaltonstay] play166911 to] untoJC,O'F,P:to seeN:Most amoroussly to thee will swimWalton15 my selfe] mine eyesWalton:my heartA18,N,TC18 with] which163320 snare,] snares,Waltonwindowie] winding1669.See note23 Or1633-69:LetWaltonsleavesilke1635:sleave silke1639-69 and Walton:sleavesicke163324 To witch poor wandring fishes eyes.Walton25 thou needst] there needsD,H49,Lec,S9626 bait;Ed:bait,1633-6927 catch'd1633-69:catch'tWalton:caughtP28 Is wiser far, alasWalton
The Baite.1635-69:no title,1633:Song.or no title,D,H49,JC,Lec,O'F,P,S96,Walton'sCompleate Angler:Fourth Day:Chap. XII.:Songs that were made&c.(vid. sup. p.18)A18,N,TCC,TCD
2 some new] all theP
3 brookes,Ed:brookes:1633-69
5 whispering1633:whispring1635-69
6 thy] thine1669,A18,N,TC
7 inamor'd] enamelledWalton
stay] play1669
11 to] untoJC,O'F,P:to seeN:Most amoroussly to thee will swimWalton
15 my selfe] mine eyesWalton:my heartA18,N,TC
18 with] which1633
20 snare,] snares,Walton
windowie] winding1669.See note
23 Or1633-69:LetWalton
sleavesilke1635:sleave silke1639-69 and Walton:sleavesicke1633
24 To witch poor wandring fishes eyes.Walton
25 thou needst] there needsD,H49,Lec,S96
26 bait;Ed:bait,1633-69
27 catch'd1633-69:catch'tWalton:caughtP
28 Is wiser far, alasWalton
Note
WHEN by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead,And that thou thinkst thee freeFrom all solicitation from mee,Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,5And thee, fain'd vestall, in worse armes shall see;Then thy sicke taper will begin to winke,And he, whose thou art then, being tyr'd before,Will, if thou stirre, or pinch to wake him, thinkeThou call'st for more,10And in false sleepe will from thee shrinke,And then poore Aspen wretch, neglected thouBath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lyeA veryer ghost then I;What I will say, I will not tell thee now,15Lest that preserve thee'; and since my love is spent,I'had rather thou shouldst painfully repent,Then by my threatnings rest still innocent.
WHEN by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead,And that thou thinkst thee freeFrom all solicitation from mee,Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,5And thee, fain'd vestall, in worse armes shall see;Then thy sicke taper will begin to winke,And he, whose thou art then, being tyr'd before,Will, if thou stirre, or pinch to wake him, thinkeThou call'st for more,10And in false sleepe will from thee shrinke,And then poore Aspen wretch, neglected thouBath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lyeA veryer ghost then I;What I will say, I will not tell thee now,15Lest that preserve thee'; and since my love is spent,I'had rather thou shouldst painfully repent,Then by my threatnings rest still innocent.
WHEN by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead,
And that thou thinkst thee free
From all solicitation from mee,
Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,
5And thee, fain'd vestall, in worse armes shall see;
Then thy sicke taper will begin to winke,
And he, whose thou art then, being tyr'd before,
Will, if thou stirre, or pinch to wake him, thinke
Thou call'st for more,
10And in false sleepe will from thee shrinke,
And then poore Aspen wretch, neglected thou
Bath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lye
A veryer ghost then I;
What I will say, I will not tell thee now,
15Lest that preserve thee'; and since my love is spent,
I'had rather thou shouldst painfully repent,
Then by my threatnings rest still innocent.
The Apparition.1633-69:do. orAn Apparition.A18,A25,B,Cy,D,H40,H49,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TCC,TCD2 that thou thinkst] thou shalt think16693 solicitation] solicitationsJC,O'F5 thee, ... vestall,Ed:thee ... vestall1633-39:thee ... Vestall1650-697 then]1669 omits10 in false sleepe will from1633,Cy,D,H49,Lec,S:in false sleepe from1635-54:in a false sleepe even from1669:in a false sleepe fromA25,P:in a false sleepe will fromA18,N,TC13 I;] I,1633, some copies17 rest still] keep theeA25,Cy,JC,O'F,P
The Apparition.1633-69:do. orAn Apparition.A18,A25,B,Cy,D,H40,H49,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TCC,TCD
2 that thou thinkst] thou shalt think1669
3 solicitation] solicitationsJC,O'F
5 thee, ... vestall,Ed:thee ... vestall1633-39:thee ... Vestall1650-69
7 then]1669 omits
10 in false sleepe will from1633,Cy,D,H49,Lec,S:in false sleepe from1635-54:in a false sleepe even from1669:in a false sleepe fromA25,P:in a false sleepe will fromA18,N,TC
13 I;] I,1633, some copies
17 rest still] keep theeA25,Cy,JC,O'F,P
Note
HE is starke mad, who ever sayes,That he hath beene in love an houre,Yet not that love so soone decayes,But that it can tenne in lesse space devour;5Who will beleeve mee, if I sweareThat I have had the plague a yeare?Who would not laugh at mee, if I should say,I saw a flaske ofpowder burne a day?Ah, what a trifle is a heart,10If once into loves hands it come!All other griefes allow a partTo other griefes, and aske themselves but some;They come to us, but us Love draws,Hee swallows us, and never chawes:15By him, as by chain'd shot, whole rankes doe dye,He is the tyran Pike, our hearts the Frye.If 'twere not so, what did becomeOf my heart, when I first saw thee?I brought a heart into the roome,20But from the roome, I carried none with mee:If it had gone to thee, I knowMine would have taught thine heart to showMore pitty unto mee: but Love, alas,At one first blow did shiver it as glasse.25Yet nothing can to nothing fall,Nor any place be empty quite,Therefore I thinke my breast hath allThose peeces still, though they be not unite;And now as broken glasses show30A hundred lesser faces, soMy ragges of heart can like, wish, and adore,But after one such love, can love no more.
HE is starke mad, who ever sayes,That he hath beene in love an houre,Yet not that love so soone decayes,But that it can tenne in lesse space devour;5Who will beleeve mee, if I sweareThat I have had the plague a yeare?Who would not laugh at mee, if I should say,I saw a flaske ofpowder burne a day?
HE is starke mad, who ever sayes,
That he hath beene in love an houre,
Yet not that love so soone decayes,
But that it can tenne in lesse space devour;
5Who will beleeve mee, if I sweare
That I have had the plague a yeare?
Who would not laugh at mee, if I should say,
I saw a flaske ofpowder burne a day?
Ah, what a trifle is a heart,10If once into loves hands it come!All other griefes allow a partTo other griefes, and aske themselves but some;They come to us, but us Love draws,Hee swallows us, and never chawes:15By him, as by chain'd shot, whole rankes doe dye,He is the tyran Pike, our hearts the Frye.
Ah, what a trifle is a heart,
10If once into loves hands it come!
All other griefes allow a part
To other griefes, and aske themselves but some;
They come to us, but us Love draws,
Hee swallows us, and never chawes:
15By him, as by chain'd shot, whole rankes doe dye,
He is the tyran Pike, our hearts the Frye.
If 'twere not so, what did becomeOf my heart, when I first saw thee?I brought a heart into the roome,20But from the roome, I carried none with mee:If it had gone to thee, I knowMine would have taught thine heart to showMore pitty unto mee: but Love, alas,At one first blow did shiver it as glasse.
If 'twere not so, what did become
Of my heart, when I first saw thee?
I brought a heart into the roome,
20But from the roome, I carried none with mee:
If it had gone to thee, I know
Mine would have taught thine heart to show
More pitty unto mee: but Love, alas,
At one first blow did shiver it as glasse.
25Yet nothing can to nothing fall,Nor any place be empty quite,Therefore I thinke my breast hath allThose peeces still, though they be not unite;And now as broken glasses show30A hundred lesser faces, soMy ragges of heart can like, wish, and adore,But after one such love, can love no more.
25Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite,
Therefore I thinke my breast hath all
Those peeces still, though they be not unite;
And now as broken glasses show
30A hundred lesser faces, so
My ragges of heart can like, wish, and adore,
But after one such love, can love no more.
The broken heart.1633-69:Broken Heart.L74:Song.or no title,A18,A25,B,Cy,D,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,S,TCC,TCD:Elegie.P,S968 flaske1633,A25,B,C,Cy,D,H40,Lec,O'F(corrected fromflash),P,S:flash1635-69,A18,H49,N,TC10 come!Ed:come?1633-6912 some;Ed:some,1633-6915 chain'd shot] chain-shottA18,A25,N,TC16 tyran] Tyrant1669our hearts] and we166917 did] couldA18,A25,B,C,L74,O'F,N,TC:wouldB,Cy,M,S20 mee:1650-69:mee;1633-3923 alas,] alas163324 first] fierceA18,B,N,TC30 hundred] thousandA18,A25,B,Cy,L74,M,N,P,S,TC
The broken heart.1633-69:Broken Heart.L74:Song.or no title,A18,A25,B,Cy,D,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,S,TCC,TCD:Elegie.P,S96
8 flaske1633,A25,B,C,Cy,D,H40,Lec,O'F(corrected fromflash),P,S:flash1635-69,A18,H49,N,TC
10 come!Ed:come?1633-69
12 some;Ed:some,1633-69
15 chain'd shot] chain-shottA18,A25,N,TC
16 tyran] Tyrant1669
our hearts] and we1669
17 did] couldA18,A25,B,C,L74,O'F,N,TC:wouldB,Cy,M,S
20 mee:1650-69:mee;1633-39
23 alas,] alas1633
24 first] fierceA18,B,N,TC
30 hundred] thousandA18,A25,B,Cy,L74,M,N,P,S,TC
Note
AS virtuous men passe mildly away,And whisper to their soules, to goe,Whilst some of their sad friends doe say,The breath goes now, and some say, no:5So let us melt, and make no noise,No teare-floods, nor sigh-tempests move,T'were prophanation of our joyesTo tell the layetie our love.Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares,10Men reckon what it did and meant,But trepidation of the spheares,Though greater farre, is innocent.Dull sublunary lovers love(Whose soule is sense) cannot admit15Absence, because it doth removeThose things which elemented it.But we by a love, so much refin'd,That our selves know not what it is,Inter-assured of the mind,20Care lesse, eyes, lips, and hands to misse.Our two soules therefore, which are one,Though I must goe, endure not yetA breach, but an expansion,Like gold to ayery thinnesse beate.25If they be two, they are two soAs stiffe twin compasses are two,Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if the'other doe.And though it in the center sit,30Yet when the other far doth rome,It leanes, and hearkens after it,And growes erect, as that comes home.Such wilt thou be to mee, who mustLike th'other foot, obliquely runne;Thy firmnes makes my circle just,35And makes me end, where I begunne.
AS virtuous men passe mildly away,And whisper to their soules, to goe,Whilst some of their sad friends doe say,The breath goes now, and some say, no:
AS virtuous men passe mildly away,
And whisper to their soules, to goe,
Whilst some of their sad friends doe say,
The breath goes now, and some say, no:
5So let us melt, and make no noise,No teare-floods, nor sigh-tempests move,T'were prophanation of our joyesTo tell the layetie our love.
5So let us melt, and make no noise,
No teare-floods, nor sigh-tempests move,
T'were prophanation of our joyes
To tell the layetie our love.
Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares,10Men reckon what it did and meant,But trepidation of the spheares,Though greater farre, is innocent.
Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares,
10Men reckon what it did and meant,
But trepidation of the spheares,
Though greater farre, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers love(Whose soule is sense) cannot admit15Absence, because it doth removeThose things which elemented it.
Dull sublunary lovers love
(Whose soule is sense) cannot admit
15Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love, so much refin'd,That our selves know not what it is,Inter-assured of the mind,20Care lesse, eyes, lips, and hands to misse.
But we by a love, so much refin'd,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
20Care lesse, eyes, lips, and hands to misse.
Our two soules therefore, which are one,Though I must goe, endure not yetA breach, but an expansion,Like gold to ayery thinnesse beate.
Our two soules therefore, which are one,
Though I must goe, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to ayery thinnesse beate.
25If they be two, they are two soAs stiffe twin compasses are two,Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if the'other doe.
25If they be two, they are two so
As stiffe twin compasses are two,
Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the'other doe.
And though it in the center sit,30Yet when the other far doth rome,It leanes, and hearkens after it,And growes erect, as that comes home.
And though it in the center sit,
30Yet when the other far doth rome,
It leanes, and hearkens after it,
And growes erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to mee, who mustLike th'other foot, obliquely runne;Thy firmnes makes my circle just,35And makes me end, where I begunne.
Such wilt thou be to mee, who must
Like th'other foot, obliquely runne;
Thy firmnes makes my circle just,
35And makes me end, where I begunne.
A Valediction: forbidding&c.Ed:A Valediction forbidding&c.1633-69:Valediction forbidding&c.A18,N,TCC,TCD:Valediction agaynst&c.A25,C:A Valediction.B,Cy,D,H40,H49,Lec:Vpon the partinge from his Mistris.O'F,S96:To his love upon his departure from her.JC:Elegie.L74,P:also in Walton'sLife of Donne (1675)4 The breath goes now,1633-54, and all the MSS.:Now his breath goes,1669,Chambersno:Ed:no.1633-54:No;166930 the other] my otherWalton31 It] ThineWalton32 that] mineWalton34 runne;Ed:runne.1633-6935 circle] circles1639-5436 makes me] me toWalton
A Valediction: forbidding&c.Ed:A Valediction forbidding&c.1633-69:Valediction forbidding&c.A18,N,TCC,TCD:Valediction agaynst&c.A25,C:A Valediction.B,Cy,D,H40,H49,Lec:Vpon the partinge from his Mistris.O'F,S96:To his love upon his departure from her.JC:Elegie.L74,P:also in Walton'sLife of Donne (1675)
4 The breath goes now,1633-54, and all the MSS.:Now his breath goes,1669,Chambers
no:Ed:no.1633-54:No;1669
30 the other] my otherWalton
31 It] ThineWalton
32 that] mineWalton
34 runne;Ed:runne.1633-69
35 circle] circles1639-54
36 makes me] me toWalton
Note
WHERE, like a pillow on a bed,A Pregnant banke swel'd up, to restThe violets reclining head,Sat we two, one anothers best.5Our hands were firmely cimentedWith a fast balme, which thence did spring,Our eye-beames twisted, and did thredOur eyes, upon one double string;So to'entergraft our hands, as yet10Was all the meanes to make us one,And pictures in our eyes to getWas all our propagation.As 'twixt two equall Armies, FateSuspends uncertaine victorie,15Our soules, (which to advance their state,Were gone out,) hung 'twixt her, and mee.And whil'st our soules negotiate there,Wee like sepulchrall statues lay;All day, the same our postures were,20And wee said nothing, all the day.If any, so by love refin'd,That he soules language understood,And by good love were growen all minde,Within convenient distance stood,25He (though he knew not which soule spake,Because both meant, both spake the same)Might thence a new concoction take,And part farre purer then he came.This Extasie doth unperplex30(We said) and tell us what we love,Wee see by this, it was not sexe,Wee see, we saw not what did move:But as all severall soules containeMixture of things, they know not what,35Love, these mixt soules, doth mixe againe,And makes both one, each this and that.A single violet transplant,The strength, the colour, and the size,(All which before was poore, and scant,)40Redoubles still, and multiplies.When love, with one another soInterinanimates two soules,That abler soule, which thence doth flow,Defects of lonelinesse controules.45Wee then, who are this new soule, know,Of what we are compos'd, and made,For, th'Atomies of which we grow,Are soules, whom no change can invade.But O alas, so long, so farre50Our bodies why doe wee forbeare?They are ours, though they are not wee, Wee areThe intelligences, they the spheare.We owe them thankes, because they thus,Did us, to us, at first convay,55Yeelded their forces, sense, to us,Nor are drosse to us, but allay.On man heavens influence workes not so,But that it first imprints the ayre,Soe soule into the soule may flow,60Though it to body first repaire.As our blood labours to begetSpirits, as like soules as it can,Because such fingers need to knitThat subtile knot, which makes us man:65So must pure lovers soules descendT'affections, and to faculties,Which sense may reach and apprehend,Else a great Prince in prison lies.To'our bodies turne wee then, that so70Weake men on love reveal'd may looke;Loves mysteries in soules doe grow,But yet the body is his booke.And if some lover, such as wee,Have heard this dialogue of one,75Let him still marke us, he shall seeSmall change, when we'are to bodies gone.
WHERE, like a pillow on a bed,A Pregnant banke swel'd up, to restThe violets reclining head,Sat we two, one anothers best.5Our hands were firmely cimentedWith a fast balme, which thence did spring,Our eye-beames twisted, and did thredOur eyes, upon one double string;So to'entergraft our hands, as yet10Was all the meanes to make us one,And pictures in our eyes to getWas all our propagation.As 'twixt two equall Armies, FateSuspends uncertaine victorie,15Our soules, (which to advance their state,Were gone out,) hung 'twixt her, and mee.And whil'st our soules negotiate there,Wee like sepulchrall statues lay;All day, the same our postures were,20And wee said nothing, all the day.If any, so by love refin'd,That he soules language understood,And by good love were growen all minde,Within convenient distance stood,25He (though he knew not which soule spake,Because both meant, both spake the same)Might thence a new concoction take,And part farre purer then he came.This Extasie doth unperplex30(We said) and tell us what we love,Wee see by this, it was not sexe,Wee see, we saw not what did move:But as all severall soules containeMixture of things, they know not what,35Love, these mixt soules, doth mixe againe,And makes both one, each this and that.A single violet transplant,The strength, the colour, and the size,(All which before was poore, and scant,)40Redoubles still, and multiplies.When love, with one another soInterinanimates two soules,That abler soule, which thence doth flow,Defects of lonelinesse controules.45Wee then, who are this new soule, know,Of what we are compos'd, and made,For, th'Atomies of which we grow,Are soules, whom no change can invade.But O alas, so long, so farre50Our bodies why doe wee forbeare?They are ours, though they are not wee, Wee areThe intelligences, they the spheare.We owe them thankes, because they thus,Did us, to us, at first convay,55Yeelded their forces, sense, to us,Nor are drosse to us, but allay.On man heavens influence workes not so,But that it first imprints the ayre,Soe soule into the soule may flow,60Though it to body first repaire.As our blood labours to begetSpirits, as like soules as it can,Because such fingers need to knitThat subtile knot, which makes us man:65So must pure lovers soules descendT'affections, and to faculties,Which sense may reach and apprehend,Else a great Prince in prison lies.To'our bodies turne wee then, that so70Weake men on love reveal'd may looke;Loves mysteries in soules doe grow,But yet the body is his booke.And if some lover, such as wee,Have heard this dialogue of one,75Let him still marke us, he shall seeSmall change, when we'are to bodies gone.
WHERE, like a pillow on a bed,
A Pregnant banke swel'd up, to rest
The violets reclining head,
Sat we two, one anothers best.
5Our hands were firmely cimented
With a fast balme, which thence did spring,
Our eye-beames twisted, and did thred
Our eyes, upon one double string;
So to'entergraft our hands, as yet
10Was all the meanes to make us one,
And pictures in our eyes to get
Was all our propagation.
As 'twixt two equall Armies, Fate
Suspends uncertaine victorie,
15Our soules, (which to advance their state,
Were gone out,) hung 'twixt her, and mee.
And whil'st our soules negotiate there,
Wee like sepulchrall statues lay;
All day, the same our postures were,
20And wee said nothing, all the day.
If any, so by love refin'd,
That he soules language understood,
And by good love were growen all minde,
Within convenient distance stood,
25He (though he knew not which soule spake,
Because both meant, both spake the same)
Might thence a new concoction take,
And part farre purer then he came.
This Extasie doth unperplex
30(We said) and tell us what we love,
Wee see by this, it was not sexe,
Wee see, we saw not what did move:
But as all severall soules containe
Mixture of things, they know not what,
35Love, these mixt soules, doth mixe againe,
And makes both one, each this and that.
A single violet transplant,
The strength, the colour, and the size,
(All which before was poore, and scant,)
40Redoubles still, and multiplies.
When love, with one another so
Interinanimates two soules,
That abler soule, which thence doth flow,
Defects of lonelinesse controules.
45Wee then, who are this new soule, know,
Of what we are compos'd, and made,
For, th'Atomies of which we grow,
Are soules, whom no change can invade.
But O alas, so long, so farre
50Our bodies why doe wee forbeare?
They are ours, though they are not wee, Wee are
The intelligences, they the spheare.
We owe them thankes, because they thus,
Did us, to us, at first convay,
55Yeelded their forces, sense, to us,
Nor are drosse to us, but allay.
On man heavens influence workes not so,
But that it first imprints the ayre,
Soe soule into the soule may flow,
60Though it to body first repaire.
As our blood labours to beget
Spirits, as like soules as it can,
Because such fingers need to knit
That subtile knot, which makes us man:
65So must pure lovers soules descend
T'affections, and to faculties,
Which sense may reach and apprehend,
Else a great Prince in prison lies.
To'our bodies turne wee then, that so
70Weake men on love reveal'd may looke;
Loves mysteries in soules doe grow,
But yet the body is his booke.
And if some lover, such as wee,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
75Let him still marke us, he shall see
Small change, when we'are to bodies gone.
The Extasie.1633-69:do. orExtasie.A18,A25,B,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TCC,TCD3 reclining1633-54:declining16694 best.Ed:best;1633-54Sate we on one anothers breasts.16696 With1633,A18,A25,B,D,H49,JC,Lec,P,S,TC:By1635-69,Chambers8 string;Ed:string,1633-699 to'entergraft1633,A18,D,H40,H49,Lec,N,P,S,TC:to engraft1635-69,A25,JC,O'F,Chambers11 in1633-69,P:onA18,A25,B,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,S,TC15 their1633 and most MSS.:our1635-69,O'F,P18 lay;Ed:lay,1633-6925 knew1635-69,A18,A25,B,H40,H49,JC,N,P,TC:knowes1633,D,Lec29 doth] do166931 sexe,1669:sexe1633-5442 InterinanimatesA18,A25,B,H40,H49,JC,N,O'F,P,TC:Interanimates1633-69,D,Lec44 loneliness] loveliness166946 made,1633-39:made:1650-6947 Atomies1633-54:Atomes166948 are soules,1633,1669:are soule,1635-5451 though they are notA18,A25,B,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,S,S96,TC:though not1633-6952 spheare.A18,A25,B,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TC:spheares.1633-6955 forces, sense,A18,A25,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,S,S96,TC:senses force1633-6959 SoeA18,A25,B,H40,JC,N,P,S,S96,TC:For1633-69,D,H49,Lec64 makes] make1635-3972 his] the166976 gone.1633,A18,A25,B,D,H49,JC,Lec,O'F,S,TC:growne.1635-69,P,S96
The Extasie.1633-69:do. orExtasie.A18,A25,B,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TCC,TCD
3 reclining1633-54:declining1669
4 best.Ed:best;1633-54
Sate we on one anothers breasts.1669
6 With1633,A18,A25,B,D,H49,JC,Lec,P,S,TC:By1635-69,Chambers
8 string;Ed:string,1633-69
9 to'entergraft1633,A18,D,H40,H49,Lec,N,P,S,TC:to engraft1635-69,A25,JC,O'F,Chambers
11 in1633-69,P:onA18,A25,B,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,S,TC
15 their1633 and most MSS.:our1635-69,O'F,P
18 lay;Ed:lay,1633-69
25 knew1635-69,A18,A25,B,H40,H49,JC,N,P,TC:knowes1633,D,Lec
29 doth] do1669
31 sexe,1669:sexe1633-54
42 InterinanimatesA18,A25,B,H40,H49,JC,N,O'F,P,TC:Interanimates1633-69,D,Lec
44 loneliness] loveliness1669
46 made,1633-39:made:1650-69
47 Atomies1633-54:Atomes1669
48 are soules,1633,1669:are soule,1635-54
51 though they are notA18,A25,B,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,S,S96,TC:though not1633-69
52 spheare.A18,A25,B,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,P,S,S96,TC:spheares.1633-69
55 forces, sense,A18,A25,D,H40,H49,JC,Lec,N,O'F,S,S96,TC:senses force1633-69
59 SoeA18,A25,B,H40,JC,N,P,S,S96,TC:For1633-69,D,H49,Lec
64 makes] make1635-39
72 his] the1669
76 gone.1633,A18,A25,B,D,H49,JC,Lec,O'F,S,TC:growne.1635-69,P,S96