The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) (part 2 of 3)

Preface

The present edition of Donne's poems grew out of my work as a teacher. In the spring of 1907, just after I had published a small volume on the literature of the early seventeenth century, I was lecturing to a class of Honours students on the 'Metaphysical poets'. They found Donne difficult alike to understand and to appreciate, and accordingly I undertook to read with them a selection from his poems with a view to elucidating difficult passages and illustrating the character of his 'metaphysics', the Scholastic and scientific doctrines which underlie his conceits. The only editions which we had at our disposal were the modern editions of Donne's poems by Grosart and Chambers, but I did not anticipate that this would present any obstacle to the task I had undertaken. About the same time the Master of Peterhouse asked me to undertake the chapter on Donne, as poet and prose-artist, for the Cambridge History of English Literature. The result was that though I had long been interested in Donne, and had given, while at work on the poetry of the seventeenth century, much thought to his poetry as a centre of interest and influence, I began to make a more minute study of the text of his poems than I had yet attempted.

The first result of this study was the discovery that there were several passages in the poems, as printed in Mr. Chambers' edition, of which I could give no satisfactory explanation to my class. At the close of the session I went to Oxford and began in the Bodleian a rapid collation of the text of that edition with the older copies, especially of 1633. The conclusion to which I came was that, excellent in many ways as that edition is, the editor had too often abandoned the reading of 1633 for the sometimes more obvious but generally weaker and often erroneous emendations of the later editions. As he records the variants this had become clear in some cases already, but an examination of the older editions brought out another fact,--that by modernizing the punctuation, while preserving no record of the changes made, the editor had corrupted some passages in such a manner as to make it impossible for a student, unprovided with all the old editions, to recover the original and sometimes quite correct reading, or to trace the error to its fountainhead.

My first proposal to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press was that I should attempt an edition of Donne's poems resting on a collation of the printed texts; that for all poems which it contains the edition of 1633 should be accepted as the authority, to be departed from only when the error seemed to be obvious and certain, and that all such changes, however minute, should be recorded in the notes. In the case of poems not contained in the edition of 1633, the first edition (whether 1635, 1649, 1650, or 1669) was to be the authority and to be treated in the same fashion. Such an edition, it was hoped, might be ready in a year. I had finished my first collation of the editions when a copy of the Grolier Club edition came into my hands, and I included it in the number of those which I compared throughout with the originals.

While the results of this collation confirmed me in the opinion I had formed as to the superiority of the edition of 1633 to all its successors, it showed also that that edition was certainly not faultless, and that the text of those poems which were issued only in the later editions was in general very carelessly edited and corrupt, especially of those poems which were added for the first time in 1669. This raised the question, what use was to be made of the manuscript copies of the poems in correcting the errors of the edition? Grosart had based his whole text on one or two manuscripts in preference to the editions. Mr. Chambers, while wisely refusing to do this, and adopting the editions as the basis of his text, had made frequent reference to the manuscripts and adopted corrections from them. Professor Norton made no use of the manuscripts in preparing the text of his edition, but he added in an Appendix an account of one of these which had come into his hands, and later he described some more and showed clearly that he believed corrections were to be obtained from this source. Accordingly I resolved to examine tentatively those which were accessible in the British Museum, especially the transcript of three of the Satyres in Harleian MS. 5110.

A short examination of the manuscripts convinced me that it would be very unsafe to base a text on any single extant manuscript, or even to make an eclectic use of a few of them, taking, now from one, now from another, what seemed a probable emendation. On the other hand it became clear that if as wide a collation as possible of extant manuscripts were made one would be able to establish in many cases what was, whether right or wrong, the traditional reading before any printed edition appeared.

A few experiments further showed that one, and a very important, result of this collation would be to confirm the trustworthiness of 1633, to show that in places where modern editors had preferred the reading of some of the later editions, generally 1635 or 1669, the text of 1633 was not only intrinsically superior but had the support of tradition, i.e. of the majority of the manuscripts. If this were the case, then it was also possible that the traditional, manuscript text might afford corrections when 1633 had fallen into error. At the same time a very cursory examination of the manuscripts was sufficient to show that many of them afforded an infinitely more correct and intelligible text of those poems which were not published in 1633 than that contained in the printed editions.

Another possible result of a wide collation of the manuscripts soon suggested itself, and that was the settlement of the canon of Donne's poems. One or two of the poems contained in the old editions had already been rejected by modern editors, and some of these on the strength of manuscript ascriptions. But on the one hand, no systematic attempt had been made to sift the poems, and on the other, experience has shown that nothing is more unsafe than to trust to the ascriptions of individual, unauthenticated manuscripts. Here again it seemed to the present editor that if any definite conclusion was to be obtained it must be by as wide a survey as possible, by the accumulation of evidence. No such conclusion might be attainable, but it was only thus that it could be sought.

The outcome of the investigation thus instituted has been fully discussed in the article on the Text and Canon of Donne's Poems in the second volume, and I shall not attempt to summarize it here. But it may be convenient for the student to have a quite brief statement of what it is that the notes in this volume profess to set forth.

Their first aim is to give a complete account of the variant readings of the original editions of 1633, 1635, 1639, 1649-50-54 (the text in these three is identical), and 1669. This was the aim of the edition as originally planned, and though my opinion of the value of many of the variants of the later editions has undergone considerable abatement since I was able to study them in the light afforded by the manuscripts, I have endeavoured to complete my original scheme; and I trust it may be found that nothing more important has been overlooked than an occasional misprint in the later editions. But I know from the experience of examining the work of my precursors, and of revising my own work, that absolute correctness is almost unattainable. It has been an advantage to me in this part of the work to come after Mr. Chambers and the Grolier Club editors, but neither of these editions records changes of punctuation.

The second purpose of the notes is to set forth the evidence of the manuscripts. I have not attempted to give anything like a full account of the variant readings of these, but have recorded so much as is sufficient for four different purposes.

(1) To vindicate the text of 1633. I have not thought it necessary to detail the evidence in cases where no one has disputed the 1633 reading. If the note simply records the readings of the editions it may be assumed that the manuscript evidence, so far as it is explicit (the manuscripts frequently abound in absurd errors), is on the side of 1633. In other cases, when there is something to be said for the text of the later editions, and especially when modern editors have preferred the later reading (though I have not always called attention to this) I have set forth the evidence in some detail. At times I have mentioned each manuscript, at others simply all the MSS., occasionally just MSS. This last means generally that all the positive evidence before me was in favour of the reading, but that my collations were silent as to some of the manuscripts. My collators, whether myself or those who worked for me, used Mr. Chambers' edition because of its numbered lines. Now if Mr. Chambers had already adopted a 1635 or later reading the tendency of the collator--especially at first, before the importance of certain readings had become obvious--was to pass over the agreement of the manuscript with this later reading in silence. In all important cases I have verified the reading by repeated reference to the manuscripts, but in some of smaller importance I have been content to record the general trend of the evidence. I have tried to cite no manuscript unless I had positive evidence as to its reading.

(2) The second use which I have made of the manuscript evidence is to justify my occasional departures from the text of the editions, whether 1633 (and these are the departures which call for most justification) or whatever later edition was the first to contain the poem. In every such case the reader should see at a glance what was the reading of the first edition, and on what authority it has been altered. My aim has been a true text (so far as that was attainable), not a reprint; but I have endeavoured to put the reader in exactly the same position as I was myself at each stage in the construction of that text. If I have erred, he can (in a favourite phrase of Donne's) 'control' me. This applies to spelling and punctuation as well as to the words themselves. But two warnings are necessary. When I note a reading as found in a number of editions, e.g. 1635 to 1654 (1635-54), or in all the editions (1633-69), it must be understood that the spelling is not always the same throughout. I have generally noted any variation in the use of capitals, but not always. The spelling and punctuation of each poem is that of the first edition in which it was published, or of the manuscript from which I have printed, all changes being recorded. Again, if, in a case where the words and not the punctuation is the matter in question, I cite the reading of an edition or some editions followed by a list of agreeing manuscripts, it will be understood that any punctuation given is that of the editions. If a list of manuscripts only is given, the punctuation, if recorded, is that of one or two of the best of these.

In cases where punctuation is the matter in question the issue lies between the various editions and my own sense of what it ought to be. Wherever it is not otherwise indicated the punctuation of a poem is that of the first edition in which it appeared or of the manuscript from which I have printed it. I have not recorded every variant of the punctuation of later editions, but all that affect the sense while at the same time not manifestly absurd. The punctuation of the manuscripts is in general negligible, but of a few manuscripts it is good, and I have occasionally cited these in support of my own view as to what the punctuation should be.

(3) A third purpose served by my citation of the manuscripts is to show clearly that there are more versions than one of some poems. A study of the notes to the Satyres, The Flea, The Curse, Elegy XI: The Bracelet, will make this clear.

(4) A fourth, subordinate and occasional, purpose of my citation of the manuscripts is to show how Donne's poems were understood or misunderstood by the copyists. Occasionally a reading which is probably erroneous throws light upon a difficult passage. The version of P at p. 34, ll. 18-19, elucidates a difficult stanza. The reading of Q in The Storme, l. 38,

Yea, and the Sunne

for the usual

I, and the Sunne

suggests, what is probably correct but had not been suspected by any editor, that 'I' here, as often, is not the pronoun, but 'Aye'.

The order of the poems is that of the editions of 1635 onwards with some modifications explained in the Introduction. In Appendix B I have placed all those poems which were printed as Donne's in the old editions (1633 to 1669), except Basse's Epitaph on Shakespeare, and a few found in manuscripts connected with the editions, or assigned to Donne by competent critics, all of which I believe to be by other authors. The text of these has been as carefully revised as that of the undoubted poems. In Appendix C I have placed a miscellaneous collection of poems loosely connected with Donne's name, and illustrating the work of some of his fellow-wits, or the trend of his influence in the occasional poetry of the seventeenth century.

The work of settling the text, correcting the canon, and preparing the Commentary has been done by myself. It was difficult to consult others who had not before them all the complex mass of evidence which I had accumulated. On some five or six places in the text, however, where final question to be decided was the intrinsic merits of the readings offered by the editions and by the manuscripts, or the advisability of a bolder emendation, I have had the advantage of comparing my opinion with that of Sir James Murray, Sir Walter Raleigh, Dr. Henry Bradley, Mr. W. A. Craigie, Mr. J. C. Smith, or Mr. R. W. Chapman.

For such accuracy as I have secured in reproducing the old editions, in the text and in the notes, I owe much to the help of three friends, Mr. Charles Forbes, of the Post Office, Aberdeen, who transcribed the greater portion of my manuscript; Professor John Purves, of University College, Pretoria, who during a visit to this country read a large section of my proofs, comparing them with the editions in the British Museum; and especially to my assistant, Mr. Frederick Rose, M.A., now Douglas Jerrold Scholar, Christ Church, Oxford, who has revised my proofs throughout with minute care.

I am indebted to many sources for the loan of necessary material. In the first place I must acknowledge my debt to the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland for allowing me a grant of £40 in 1908-9, and of £30 in 1909-10, for the collation of manuscripts. Without this it would have been impossible for me to collate, or have collated for me, the widely scattered manuscripts in London, Petworth, Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, and Boston. Some of my expenses in this connexion have been met by the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, who have also been very generous in the purchase of necessary books, such as editions of the Poems and the Sermons. At the outset of my work the Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford, lent me the copy of the edition of 1633 (originally the possession of Sir John Vaughan (1603-1674) Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) on which the present edition is based, and also their copies of the editions of 1639, 1650, and 1654. At the same time Sir Walter Raleigh lent me his copy of the edition of 1669. At an early stage of my work Captain C. Shirley Harris, of 90 Woodstock Road, Oxford, communicated with me about Donne's use of the word 'Mucheron', and he was kind enough to lend me both his manuscript, P, and the transcript which he had caused to be made. By the kindness of Lord Ellesmere I was permitted to collate his unique copy of the 1611 edition of the Anatomy of the World and Funerall Elegie. While I was doing so, Mr. Strachan Holme, the Librarian, drew my attention to a manuscript collection of Donne's poems (B), and with his kind assistance I was enabled to collate this at Walkden, Manchester, and again at Bridgewater House. Mr. Holme has also furnished a photograph of the title-page of the edition of 1611. To the authorities of Trinity College, Dublin, and of Trinity College, Cambridge, I am indebted not only for permission to collate their manuscripts on the spot, but for kindly lending them to be examined and compared in the Library at King's College, Aberdeen; and I am indebted for a similar favour to the authorities of Queen's College, Oxford. In Dublin I met Professor Edward Dowden, and no one has been a kinder friend to my enterprise. He put at my disposal his interesting and valuable manuscript (D) and all his collection of Donne's works. He drew my attention to a manuscript (O'F) in Ellis and Elvey's catalogue for 1903. Mr. Warwick Bond was good enough to lend me the notes he had made upon this manuscript, which ultimately I traced to Harvard College Library. With Professor Dowden, Mr. Edmund Gosse has given me the most generous and whole-hearted assistance. He lent me, as soon as ever I applied to him, his valuable and unique Westmoreland MS., containing many poems which were not included in any of the old editions. Some of these Mr. Gosse had already printed in his own delightful Life and Letters of John Donne (1899), but he has allowed me to reprint these and to print the rest of the unpublished poems for the first time. From his manuscript (G) of the Progresse of the Soule, or Metempsychosis, I have also obtained important emendations of the text. This is the most valuable manuscript copy of this poem. It will be seen that Mr. Gosse is a very material contributor to the completeness and interest of the present edition.

To the Marquess of Crewe I am indebted for permission to examine the manuscript M, to which a note of Sir John Simon's had called my attention; and to Lord Leconfield for a like permission to collate a manuscript in his possession, of which a short description is given in the Hist. MSS. Commission, Sixth Report, p. 312, No. 118. With Mr. Whitcomb's aid I was enabled to do this carefully, and he has subsequently verified references. Another interesting manuscript (JC) was lent me by Mr. Elkin Mathews, who has also put at my disposal his various editions of the Lives of Walton and other books connected with Donne. Almost at the eleventh hour, Mr. Geoffrey Keynes, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, discovered for me a copy of the 1612 edition of the Anniversaries, for which I had asked in vain in Notes and Queries. I owe to him, and to the kind permission of Mr. Edward Huth and the Messrs. Sotheby, a careful collation and a photograph of the title-page.

For the Commentary Dr. Norman Moore supplied me with a note on the Galenists and Paracelsians; and Dr. Gaster with the materials for a note on Donne's use of Jewish Apocrypha. Professor Picavet, of the Sorbonne, Paris, was kind enough to read in proof my notes on Donne's allusions to Scholastic doctrines, and to make suggestions. But I have added to these notes as they passed through the Press, and he must not be made responsible for my errors. Mr. W. Barclay Squire and Professor C. Sanford Terry have revised my transcripts and proofs of the music.

I desire lastly to express my gratitude to the officials of the Clarendon Press for the care with which they have checked my proofs, the patience with which they have accepted my changes and additions, and the trouble they have taken to secure photographs, music, and other details. Whatever faults may be found--and I doubt not they will be many--in my part of the work, I think the part for which the Press is responsible is wellnigh faultless.

H. J. C. GRIERSON.

LANGCROFT, DINNET, ABERDEENSHIRE.

July 15, 1912.

NOTE

The typography of the edition of 1633 has been closely followed, in its use for example of 'u' and 'v'; and of long 's', which is avoided in certain combinations, e.g. 'sk' (but P. 12, l. 27. 'askes' 1633) and frequently 'sb'; nor is it generally used when the letter following 's' is elided; but there are one or two exceptions to this.

In the following places I have printed a full 'and' where 1633 contracts to '&' owing to the length of the line:

Page 12, l. 4. & whõ; P. 15, l. 40. & drove; P. 65, l. 8. & nought; P. 153, l. 105. & almes; P. 158, l. 101. & name; do., l. 107. & rockes, &; P. 159, l. 30. & black; P. 171, l. 83. & lawes; P. 183, l. 18. & Courts; P. 184, l. 29. & God; P. 205, l. 2. & pleasure; P. 240, l. 288. & sinke; P. 254, l. 107. & thinke; do., l. 113. & think; P. 280, l. 24. & Mines; P. 297, l. 56. & lands; do., l. 62. & brow; P. 306, l. 290. & lents; P. 327 (xii), l. 8. & feed; P. 337, l. 35. & thou; P. 360, l. 188. & turn'd; P. 384, l. 78. & face.

In the following places 'm' or 'n', indicated by a contraction, has been printed in full: Page 12, l. 4. Her whõ; do. & whõ; P. 37, 1. 17. whẽ (bis); P. 82, l. 46. thẽ; P. 90, l. 2. frõ; P. 128, l. 28. Valẽtine; P. 141, l. 8. whẽ; P. 150, l. 16. thẽ; P. 159, l. 30. strãge; P. 169, l. 31. whõ; P. 257, l. 210. successiõ; P. 266, l. 513. anciẽt; P. 305, l. 255. thẽ; P. 336, l. 10. whẽ; P. 343, l. 126. Frõ; P. 345, l. 169. thẽ; P. 387, l. 71. Pẽbrooke.

There are a few examples of the same changes in the poems printed from the later editions, but I have not reproduced any of these editions so completely as 1633, every poem in which, with the exception of Basse's An Epitaph upon Shakespeare (1633. p. 149 i.e. 165) has been here reprinted.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I

SOURCE PAGE

1633 THE PRINTER TO THE UNDERSTANDERS 1

1633 HEXASTICHON BIBLIOPOLAE 3

1635 HEXASTICHON AD BIBLIOPOLAM 3

1650 DEDICATION TO THE EDITION OF 1650 4

1650 TO JOHN DONNE 5

1650 TO LUCY, COUNTESSE OF BEDFORD, WITH M. DONNES SATYRES 6

1650 TO JOHN DONNE 6

SONGS AND SONETS

1633 195 The good-morrow 7 196-7 Song 8 197-8 Womans constancy 9 198-9 The undertaking 10 199-200 The Sunne Rising 11 200-1 The Indifferent 12 201-2 Loves Vsury 13 202-4 The Canonization 14 204-5 The triple Foole 16 205-6 Lovers infiniteness 17 206-8 Song 18 208-9 The Legacie 20 209-10 A Feaver 21 211-12 Aire and Angels 22 212 Breake of day 23 213-14 The Anniversarie 24 214-17 A Valediction: of my name, in the window 25 218-19 Twicknam garden 28 219-21 A Valediction: of the booke 29 222 Communitie 32 223-4 Loves growth 33 224-5 Loves exchange 34 226 Confined Love 36 227 The Dreame 37 228-9 A Valediction: of weeping 38 229-30 Loves Alchymie 39 230-1 The Flea 40 231-2 The Curse 41 186 The Message 43 187-8 A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day 44 189 Witchcraft by a picture 45 190-1 The Baite 46 191 The Apparition 47 192-3 The broken heart 48 193-4 A Valediction: forbidding mourning 49 277-80 The Extasie 51 280-1 Loves Deitie 54 281-2 Loves diet 55 283-5 The Will 56 285-6 The Funerall 58 286-7 The Blossome 59 288-9 The Primrose, being at Montgomery Castle, upon the hill, on which it is situate 61 289-90 The Relique 62 290-1 The Dampe 63 291-2 The Dissolution 64 292-3 A Ieat Ring sent 65 293 Negative love 66 294 The Prohibition 67 295 The Expiration 68 295 The Computation 69 302 The Paradox 69 1635 63-4 Farewell to love 70 66-7 A Lecture upon the Shadow 71 1650 264-5 Sonnet. The Token 72 391-2 <Selfe Love> He that cannot chuse but love 73

EPIGRAMS

1633 40 Hero and Leander 75 40 Pyramus and Thisbe 75 40 Niobe 75 41 A burnt ship 75 41 Fall of a wall 76 41 A lame begger 76 Westmoreland MS. Cales and Guyana 76 " MS. Sir Iohn Wingefield 76 1633 41 A selfe accuser 76 42 A licentious person 77 42 Antiquary 77 42 Disinherited 77 42 Phryne 77 42 An obscure writer 77 42 Klockius 77 43 Raderus 78 43 Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus 78 43 Ralphius 78 Westmoreland MS. The Lier 78

ELEGIES

1633 44-5 I. Iealosie 79 45-7 II. The Anagram 80 47-8 III. Change 82 49-51 IV. The Perfume 84 51-2 V. His Picture 86 53-5 VI. Oh, let mee not 87 55-6 VII. Natures lay Ideot 89 149-50 VIII. The Comparison 90 151-2 IX. The Autumnall 92 153 X. The Dreame 95 1635 89-93 XI. The Bracelet 96 1669 86-9 XII. His parting from her 100 1635 96-7 XIII. Iulia 104 98-100 XIV. A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife 105 1633 300-2 XV. The Expostulation 108 1635 269-70 XVI. On his Mistris 111 1650 388-90 XVII. Variety 113 1669 94-7 XVIII. Loves Progress 116 97-9 XIX. Going to Bed 119 Westmoreland MS. XX. Loves Warr 122

1633 166-8 HEROICALL EPISTLE: Sapho to Philænis 124

EPITHALAMIONS, OR MARRIAGE SONGS

1633 118-22 An Epithalamion, Or marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day 127 123-27 Eclogue. 1613. December 26 131 127-35 Epithalamion 135 135-8 Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne 141

SATYRES

1633 325-8 Satyre I 145 329-32 Satyre II 149 333-6 Satyre III 154 337-45 Satyre IIII 158 346-9 Satyre V 168 1650 262-4 Vpon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities 172 Coryats Crudities In eundem Macaronicon 174

LETTERS TO SEVERALL PERSONAGES

1633 56-9 The Storme 175 59-61 The Calme 178 61-3 To S^r Henry Wotton. Sir, more then kisses 180 72-4 To S^r Henry Goodyere. Who makes the Past 183 74-5 To M^r Rowland Woodward. Like one who 185 76-7 To S^r Henry Wootton. Here's no more newes 187 Burley MS. H: W: in Hiber: belligeranti 188 1633 77-9 To the Countesse of Bedford. Madame, Reason is 189 79-82 To the Countesse of Bedford. Madame, You have refin'd 191 82-4 To S^r Edward Herbert, at Iulyers. Man is a lumpe 193 84-7 To the Countesse of Bedford. T'have written then 195 87-90 To the Countesse of Bedford. This twilight of 198 90-3 To the Countesse of Huntingdon. Madame, Man to Gods image 201 93-4 To M^r T. W. All haile sweet Poët 203 95 To M^r T. W. Hast thee harsh verse 205 95-6 To M^r T. W. Pregnant again 206 96 To M^r T. W. At once, from 206 Westmoreland MS. To M^r R. W. Zealously my Muse 207 " MS. To M^r R. W. Muse not that by 207 1633 97 To M^r C. B. Thy friend, whom 208 Westmoreland MS. To M^r E. G. Even as lame things 208 1633 100-1 To M^r R. W. If, as mine is 209 Westmoreland MS. To M^r R. W. Kindly I envy 210 1633 98 To M^r S. B. O Thou which 211 101 To M^r I. L. Of that short 212 99-100 To M^r B. B. Is not thy sacred 212 102 To M^r I. L. Blest are your 213 104-5 To Sir H. W. at his going Ambassador to Venice 214 106-8 To M^rs M. H. Mad paper stay 216 108-10 To the Countesse of Bedford. Honour is so 218 111 To the Countesse of Bedford. Though I be dead 220 112-13 A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens. Madame, Here where 221 115-18 To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 224 298-9 To the Lady Bedford. You that are she 227

AN ANATOMIE OF THE WORLD

1633 233-5 To the praise of the dead 229 235-51 The first Anniversary 231 252-5 A Funerall Elegie 245

OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE

1633 257-9 The Harbinger to the Progresse 249 260-77 The second Anniversarie 251

EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES UPON THE DEATHS OF SUNDRY PERSONAGES

1633 154-7 Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry 267 139 To the Countesse of Bedford. Letter introducing 270 140-8 Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford 271 66-8 Elegie on the Lady Marckham 279 69-71 Elegie on M^{ris} Boulstred 282 296-8 Elegie. Death 284 52-3 Elegie on the L. C. 287 162-3 An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton 288

EPITAPHS

1635 271 On himselfe 291 386-7 Omnibus 292

1633 before p. 1 INFINITATI SACRUM

Epistle 293 1-27 The Progresse of the Soule 295

DIVINE POEMS

1633 103 To E. of D. with six holy Sonnets 317 Walton's _Life of }To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: of St. Mary M^r George Herbert_} Magdalen 317

HOLY SONNETS

1633 28 La Corona 318 28-9 Annunciation 319 29 Nativitie 319 30 Temple 320 30-1 Crucifying 320 31 Resurrection 321 31-2 Ascention 321 Holy Sonnets 1635 331-2 I. Thou hast made me 322 1633 32 II. As due by many titles 322 1635 333 III. O might those sighes and teares 323 1633 33 IV. Oh my blacke Soule 323 1635 334 V. I am a little world 324 1633 33-4 VI. This is my playes last scene 324 34 VII. At the round earths imagin'd corners 325 1635 336 VIII. If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd 325 1633 35 IX. If poysonous mineralls 326 35-6 X. Death be not proud 326 36 XI. Spit in my face you Jewes 327 37 XII. Why are wee by all creatures waited on? 327 37-8 XIII. What if this present were the worlds last night? 328 38 XIV. Batter my heart 328 39 XV. Wilt thou love God, as he thee! 329 39-40 XVI. Father, part of his double interest 329 Westmoreland MS. XVII. Since she whom I lov'd hath payd her last debt 330 " MS. XVIII. Show me deare Christ, thy spouse 330 " MS. XIX. Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one 331 1633 64-6 The Crosse 331 161-2 Resurrection, imperfect 333 168-9 The Annuntiation and Passion 334 170-1 Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward 336 172-85 THE LITANIE 338 1635 366-8 Vpon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister 348 368 Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne 350 369-70 To M^r Tilman after he had taken orders 351 1633 304-5 A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany 352 306-23 The Lamentations of Ieremy, for the most part according to Tremelius 354 1635 387-8 Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse 368 1633 350 A Hymne to God the Father 369 Trinity College, Dublin, MS. To Christ 370

ELEGIES UPON THE AUTHOR 371

APPENDIX A

LATIN POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS

1635 278 De libro cum mutuaretur &c. 397 278 <Epigramma> 397 1650 370-1 Amicissimo, & meritissimo, Ben Jonson 398 378 To M^r George Herbert, with one of my Seals 398 379 A sheafe of Snakes used 399 385 Translated out of Gazæus 401

APPENDIX B

POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN DONNE IN THE OLD EDITIONS (1633-1669) AND THE PRINCIPAL MS. COLLECTIONS, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR PROBABLE AUTHOR.

I

POEMS. Probably by Sir John Roe, Knt. 1669 130-42 To S^r Nicholas Smyth. Sleep, next society 401 1635 146-7 Satyre. Men write that love and reason disagree 406 93-5 An Elegie. Come, Fates; I feare you not 407 Hawthornden MS. An Elegie to M^{ris} Boulstred: 1602 410 Addl. MS. 10309 An Elegie. True love findes witt 412 1635 65-6 Song. Deare Love, continue 412 208-9 To Ben. Iohnson, 6 Ian. 1603 414 207-8 To Ben. Iohnson, 9. Novembris, 1603 415 209-10 To S^r Tho. Roe. 1603 416

II

1635 191-5 To the Countesse of Huntington. That unripe side of earth 417

III

1635 272 Elegie. Death be not proud 422

IV

1635 157-61 Psalme 137. Probably by Francis Davison. By Euphrates Flowry side 424

V

1635 342 On the blessed Virgin Mary. Probably by Henry Constable 427

VI

1635 372 On the Sacrament 427

VII

Stowe MS. 961 Absence. Absence, heare my protestation 428 Probably by John Hoskins.

VIII

1635 62 Song. Soules joy. Probably by the Earl of Pembroke 429 195-6 A Dialogue 430

IX

1669 17 Break of Daye. Stay, O sweet 432 Probably by John Dowlands.

APPENDIX C

Addl. MS. 25707 A Letter written by S^r H: G: and J: D: alternis vicibus 433 Addl. MS. 25707 O Frutefull Garden 434 To my Lord of Pembroke 435 Of a Lady in the Black Masque 436 Burley MS. <Life.> 437 <My Love.> 437 <O Eyes!> 438 <Silence Best Praise.> 439 <Beauty in Little Room.> 440 <Loves Zodiake.> 440 <Fortune, Love, and Time.> 440 <Life a Play.> 441 A Kisse 441 Epi: B: Jo: 443 Epi: Hen: Princ: Hug^o Holland 443 O'Flaherty MS. <The Annuntiation. Additional Lines.> 443 Elegy. To Chast Love 445 Upon his scornefull Mistresse. Elegy 446 Lansdowne MS. 740 <Absence.> 447 <Tongue-tied Love.> 447 O'Flaherty MS. <Love, if a God thou art.> 448 <Great Lord of Love.> 448 <Loves Exchange.> 449 Song. Now y'have killd 450 Stowe MS. 961 Love, bred of glances 450 Bridgewater MS. To a Watch restored to its Mystres<se> 451 Egerton MS. <Ad Solem.> 451 Stephens MS. <If She Deride.> 452 <Fortune Never Fails.> 453 To His Mistress 455 Stowe MS. 961 A Paradoxe of a Painted Face 456 Sonnett. Madam that flea 459 Addl. MS. 11811 On Black Hayre and Eyes 460 Phillipps MS. Fragment of an Elegy 462 Walton's Compleat Angler <Farewel, ye guilded follies.> 465

INDEX OF FIRST LINES 469

PLATES

John Donne, from the engraving prefixed to the Poems, 1635 face page 7

John Donne, 1613, from an engraving prefixed to the prose Letters &c., 1651 face page 175

John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632 face page 369

LIST OF EDITIONS REGULARLY CITED IN NOTES.

1633, 1635, 1639, 1650, 1654, 1669.

Contractions: 1633-54 i.e. All editions between and including these dates. 1633-69 i.e. All the editions. Etc.

EDITIONS OCCASIONALLY CITED.

1649, in lists of editions and MSS. appended to poems first published in that edition. Textually it is identical with 1650-54.

1719, Tonson's edition.

1855, The Boston edition of that year--cited once.

Grosart, A. B. Grosart's edition of 1872-3.

Grolier, The Grolier Club edition of Professor Norton and Mrs. Burnett, 1895.

Chambers, Mr. E. K. Chambers' edition of 1896.

LIST OF MS. SIGLA

A10 Additional MS. 10,309, British Museum. A11 " " 11,811, " A18 " " 18,646, " A23 " " 23,229, " A25 " " 25,707, " A34 " " 34,744, " Ash 38 Ashmole MS. 38, Bodleian Library. B Bridgewater MS., Bridgewater House. Bur Burley MS., formerly at Burley-on-the-Hill House, Rutland. C Cambridge University Library MS. Cy Carnaby MS., Harvard College. D Dowden MS., belonging to Professor Edward Dowden. E20 Egerton MS. 2013, British Museum. E22 " " 2230, " G Gosse MS. of Metempsychosis, belonging to Mr. Edmund Gosse. H39 Harleian MS. 3910, British Museum. H40 " " 4064, " H49 " " 4944, " H51 " " 5110, " HN Hawthornden MS., Library of Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh. JC John Cave MS., belonging to Mr. Elkin Mathews. L74 Lansdowne MS. 740, British Museum. L77 " " 777, " Lec Leconfield MS., at Petworth House. M Monckton-Milnes MS., belonging to the Marquis of Crewe. N Norton MS., Harvard College. O'F O'Flaherty MS., Harvard College. P Phillipps MS., belonging to Captain C. Shirley Harris. Q Queen's College MS., Queen's College, Oxford. RP31 Rawlinson Poetical MS. 31, Bodleian Library, Oxford. RP61 " " " 61 " " " S Stephens MS., Harvard College. S96 Stowe MS. 961, British Museum. TCC Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. TCD Trinity College, Dublin, MS. G. 2. 21. TCD (II) A second collection of poems in the same MS. W Westmoreland MS., belonging to Mr. Edmund Gosse.

The following groups are important:--

D, H49, Lec,

and

A18, N, TC, where TC represents TCC and TCD

THE PRINTER

TO THE

UNDERSTANDERS.

For this time I must speake only to you: at another, Readers may perchance serve my turne; and I thinke this a way very free from exception, in hope that very few will have a minde to confesse themselves ignorant.

If you looke for an Epistle, as you have before ordinary publications, I am sory that I must deceive you; but you will not lay it to my charge, when you shall consider that this is not ordinary, for if I should say it were the best in this kinde, that ever this Kingdome hath yet seene; he that would doubt of it must goe out of the Kingdome to enforme himselfe, for the best judgments, within it, take it for granted.

You may imagine (if it please you) that I could endeare it unto you, by saying, that importunity drew it on; that had it not beene presented here, it would have come to us from beyond the Seas; (which perhaps is true enough,) That my charge and paines in procuring of it hath beene such, and such. I could adde hereto, a promise of more correctnesse, or enlargement in the next Edition, if you shall in the meane time content you with this. But these things are so common, as that I should profane this Peece by applying them to it; A Peece which who so takes not as he findes it, in what manner soever, he is unworthy of it, sith a scattered limbe of this Author, hath more amiablenesse in it, in the eye of a discerner, then a whole body of some other; Or, (to expresse him best by himselfe)

[Sidenote: In the Storme.]

--_A hand, or eye, By_ Hilyard _drawne, is worth a history By a worse Painter made_;--

If any man (thinking I speake this to enflame him for the vent of the Impression) be of another opinion, I shall as willingly spare his money as his judgement. I cannot lose so much by him as hee will by himselfe. For I shall satisfie my selfe with the conscience of well doing, in making so much good common.

Howsoever it may appeare to you, it shall suffice mee to enforme you, that it hath the best warrant that can bee, publique authority, and private friends.

There is one thing more wherein I will make you of my counsell, and that is, That whereas it hath pleased some, who had studyed and did admire him, to offer to the memory of the Author, not long after his decease, I have thought I should do you service in presenting them unto you now; onely whereas, had I placed them in the beginning, they might have serv'd for so many Encomiums of the Author (as is usuall in other workes, where perhaps there is need of it, to prepare men to digest such stuffe as follows after,) you shall here finde them in the end, for whosoever reades the rest so farre, shall perceive that there is no occasion to use them to that purpose; yet there they are, as an attestation for their sakes that knew not so much before, to let them see how much honour was attributed to this worthy man, by those that are capable to give it. Farewell.

[The Printer &c. 1633-49: om. 1650-69, which substitute Dedication To the &c. (p. 4)]

[2 you: 1635-49: you, 1633]

[The Printer to the Vnderstanders. 1635-69: The Printer to the Reader. 1633. See note]

[28 here 1635-69: om. 1633 (... you shall here finde them in the end,...)]

Hexastichon Bibliopolae.

I see in his last preach'd, and printed Booke, His Picture in a sheet; in Pauls I looke, And see his Statue in a sheete of stone, And sure his body in the grave hath one: Those sheetes present him dead, these if you buy, You have him living to Eternity.

JO. MAR.

[Hexastichon Bibliopolae. 1633-69]

Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam.

Incerti.

In thy Impression of Donnes _Poems rare, For his Eternitie thou hast ta'ne care: 'Twas well, and pious; And for ever may He live: Yet shew I thee a better way; Print but his Sermons, and if those we buy, He, We, and Thou shall live t' Eternity._

[Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam. 1635-69]

Dedication to the Edition of 1650.

To the Right Honourable William Lord Craven Baron of Hamsted-Marsham.

My Lord,

Many of these Poems have, for severall impressions, wandred up and down trusting (as well they might) upon the Authors reputation; neither do they now complain of any injury but what may proceed either from the kindnesse of the Printer, or the curtesie of the Reader; the one by adding something too much, lest any spark of this sacred fire might perish undiscerned, the other by putting such an estimation upon the wit & fancy they find here, that they are content to use it as their own: as if a man should dig out the stones of a royall Amphitheatre to build a stage for a countrey show. Amongst all the monsters this unlucky age has teemed with, I finde none so prodigious, as the Poets of these later times, wherein men as if they would level understandings too as well as estates, acknowledging no inequality of parts and Judgements, pretend as indifferently to the chaire of wit as to the Pulpit, & conceive themselves no lesse inspired with the spirit of Poetry then with that of Religion: so it is not onely the noise of Drums and Trumpets which have drowned the Muses harmony, or the feare that the Churches ruine wil destroy their Priests likewise, that now frights them from this Countrey, where they have been so ingenuously received, but these rude pretenders to excellencies they unjustly own who profanely rushing into Minervaes Temple, with noysome Ayres blast the lawrell w^{ch} thunder cannot hurt. In this sad condition these learned sisters are fled over to beg your L^{ps}. protection, who have been so certain a patron both to arts and armes, and who in this generall confusion have so intirely preserved your Honour, that in your Lordship we may still read a most perfect character of what England was in all her pompe and greatnesse, so that although these poems were formerly written upon severall occasions, and to severall persons, they now unite themselves, and are become one pyramid to set your Lordships statue upon, where you may stand like Armed Apollo the defendor of the Muses, encouraging the Poets now alive to celebrate your great Acts by affording your countenance to his poems that wanted onely so noble a subject.

My Lord,

Your most humble servant

JOHN DONNE.

[To the &c. 1650-69]

TO JOHN DONNE.

Donne, _the delight of Phoebus, and each Muse, Who, to thy one, all other braines refuse; Whose every work, of thy most early wit, Came forth example, and remaines so, yet: Longer a knowing, than most wits doe live; And which no'n affection praise enough can give! To it, thy language, letters, arts, best life, Which might with halfe mankind maintain a strife; All which I mean to praise, and, yet, I would; But leave, because I cannot as I should_!

B. JONS.

[To John Donne. 1650-69, following the Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam.]

To LUCY, COUNTESSE OF BEDFORD, with M. DONNES Satyres.

Lucy, you brightnesse of our Spheare, who are Life of the Muses day, their morning Starre! If works (not th'Authors) their own grace should look Whose poems would not wish to be your book? But these, desir'd by you, the makers ends Crown with their own. Rare Poems ask rare friends. Yet, Satyres, since the most of mankind bee Their unavoided subject, fewest see: For none ere took that pleasure in sins sense, But, when they heard it tax'd, took more offence. They, then, that living where the matter is bred, Dare for these Poems, yet, both ask, and read, And like them too; must needfully, though few, Be of the best: and 'mongst those best are you; Lucy, you brightnefle of our Spheare, who are The Muses evening, as their morning-Starre.

B. JON.

TO JOHN DONNE.

Who shall doubt, Donne, where I a Poet bee, When I dare send my Epigrammes to thee? That so alone canst judge, so'alone do'st make: And, in thy censures, evenly, dost take As free simplicity, to dis-avow, As thou hast best authority, t'allow. Read all I send: and, if I finde but one Mark'd by thy hand, and with the better stone, My title's seal'd. Those that for claps doe write, Let punees, porters, players praise delight, And, till they burst, their backs, like asses load: A man should seek great glory, and not broad.

B. JON.

[To Lucy &c. To John Donne &c. _1650-69, in sheets added 1650_. See Text and Canon &c.]

SONGS AND SONETS.

The good-morrow.

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den? T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee. 5 If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desir'd, and got, t'was but a dreame of thee.

And now good morrow to our waking soules, Which watch not one another out of feare; For love, all love of other sights controules, 10 And makes one little roome, an every where. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne, Let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, 15 And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde two better hemispheares Without sharpe North, without declining West? What ever dyes, was not mixt equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I 20 Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.

[SONGS AND SONETS. 1635-69: no division into sections, 1633]

[The good-morrow. 1633-69, A18, L74, N, TCC, TCD: no title, A25, B, C, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, P, S: Elegie. S96]

[2 lov'd? 1639-69: lov'd, 1633-35]

[3 countrey pleasures, childishly? 1633-54, D, H40, H49, Lec: childish pleasures seelily? 1669, A18, A25, B, JC, L74, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC]

[4 snorted 1633-54, D, H40, H49, Lec, O'F, S96: slumbred 1669, A18, A25, JC, L74, N, P, TC seaven sleepers 1633: seven-sleepers 1635-69]

[5 this,] as 1669]

[10 For 1633-69, D, H40, H49, Lec: But _rest of MSS_.]

[13 to other, worlds on 1633-54: to other worlds our 1669: to others, worlds on D, H49, Lec, and other MSS.]

[14 one world 1633-69, D, H49, Lec: our world rest of MSS.]

[17 better 1633, D, H40, H49, Lec: fitter 1635-69, and rest of MSS.]

[19 was not] is not 1669]

[20-1 or, thou and I ... can die. 1633, D, H40, H49, Lec: or, thou and I ... can slacken, ... can die. Chambers:

both thou and I Love just alike in all, none of these loves can die.

1635-69, JC, O'F, P: or thou and I Love just alike in all, none of these loves can die.

A18, A25, B, L74, S96, TC

As thou and I &c.

H40:

And thou and I &c.

S]

Song.

Goe, and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake roote, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divels foot, Teach me to heare Mermaides singing, 5 Or to keep off envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

If thou beest borne to strange sights, 10 Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand daies and nights, Till age snow white haires on thee, Thou, when thou retorn'st, wilt tell mee All strange wonders that befell thee, 15 And sweare No where Lives a woman true, and faire.

If thou findst one, let mee know, Such a Pilgrimage were sweet; 20 Yet doe not, I would not goe, Though at next doore wee might meet, Though shee were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet shee 25 Will bee False, ere I come, to two, or three.

[Song. 1633-69: Song, A Songe, or no title, A18, A25, B, C, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD]

[3 past yeares] times past 1669: past times P]

[11 to see] go see 1669, S, S96: see most other MSS.]

[20 sweet; 1669: sweet, 1633-54]

[24 last, till] last so till O'F, S, S96]

[27 False, ... three] False, ere she come to two or three. 1669]

Womans constancy.

Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day, To morrow when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say? Wilt thou then Antedate some new made vow? Or say that now We are not just those persons, which we were? 5 Or, that oathes made in reverentiall feare Of Love, and his wrath, any may forsweare? Or, as true deaths, true maryages untie, So lovers contracts, images of those, Binde but till sleep, deaths image, them unloose? 10 Or, your owne end to Justifie, For having purpos'd change, and falsehood; you Can have no way but falsehood to be true? Vaine lunatique, against these scapes I could Dispute, and conquer, if I would, 15 Which I abstaine to doe, For by to morrow, I may thinke so too.

[Womans constancy. 1633-69, A18, L74, N, O'F, TCC, TCD: no title, B, D, H40, H49, Lec, P, S]

[8 Or, 1633, 1669: For, 1635-54 (ll. 8-10 in brackets)]

The undertaking.

I have done one braver thing Then all the Worthies did, And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keepe that hid.

It were but madnes now t'impart 5 The skill of specular stone, When he which can have learn'd the art To cut it, can finde none.

So, if I now should utter this, Others (because no more 10 Such stuffe to worke upon, there is,) Would love but as before.

But he who lovelinesse within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who colour loves, and skinne, 15 Loves but their oldest clothes.

If, as I have, you also doe Vertue'attir'd in woman see, And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the Hee and Shee; 20

And if this love, though placed so, From prophane men you hide, Which will no faith on this bestow, Or, if they doe, deride:

Then you have done a braver thing 25 Then all the Worthies did; And a braver thence will spring, Which is, to keepe that hid.

[The undertaking. 1635-69: no title, 1633, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, P, S: Platonique Love. A18, N, TCC, TCD]

[2 Worthies] worthies 1633]

[3 And yet] Yet B, D, H49, Lec]

[7-8 art ... it, 1669: art, ... it 1633-54]

[16 their] her B]

[18 Vertue'attir'd in 1633, A18, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, S, TC: Vertue in 1635-69, O'F, Chambers]

[26 did; Ed: did. 1633-39: did, 1650-69]

[27 spring,] spring 1633-39]

The Sunne Rising.

Busie old foole, unruly Sunne, Why dost thou thus, Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide 5 Late schoole boyes, and sowre prentices, Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride, Call countrey ants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knowes, nor clyme, Nor houres, dayes, moneths, which are the rags of time. 10

Thy beames, so reverend, and strong Why shouldst thou thinke? I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke, But that I would not lose her sight so long: If her eyes have not blinded thine, 15 Looke, and to morrow late, tell mee, Whether both the'India's of spice and Myne Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with mee. Aske for those Kings whom thou saw'st yesterday, And thou shalt heare, All here in one bed lay. 20

She'is all States, and all Princes, I, Nothing else is. Princes doe but play us; compar'd to this, All honor's mimique; All wealth alchimie. Thou sunne art halfe as happy'as wee, 25 In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age askes ease, and since thy duties bee To warme the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art every where; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare. 30

[The Sunne Rising. 1633-69: Sunne Rising. A18, L74, N, TCC, TCD: Ad Solem. A25, D, H49, JC, O'F, S, S96: To the Sunne. Cy, Lec, O'F (as a second title): no title, B]

[3 call] look 1669]

[6 and] or 1669

sowre] slowe B, Cy, P]

[8 offices;] offices, 1633]

[11-14 Thy beames, ... so long: 1633 and all MSS.:

Thy beames so reverend, and strong Dost thou not thinke I could eclipse and cloude them with a winke, But that I would not lose her sight so long? 1635-69 ]

[17 spice] space 1650-54]

[18 leftst 1633: left 1635-69]

[23 us;] us, 1633]

[24 wealth] wealth's A25, C, P

alchimie. Ed: alchimie; 1633-69]

[26 thus; Ed: thus. 1633-69]

The Indifferent.

I can love both faire and browne, Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betraies, Her who loves lonenesse best, and her who maskes and plaies, Her whom the country form'd, and whom the town, Her who beleeves, and her who tries, 5 Her who still weepes with spungie eyes, And her who is dry corke, and never cries; I can love her, and her, and you and you, I can love any, so she be not true.

Will no other vice content you? 10 Wil it not serve your turn to do, as did your mothers? Or have you all old vices spent, and now would finde out others? Or doth a feare, that men are true, torment you? Oh we are not, be not you so, Let mee, and doe you, twenty know. 15 Rob mee, but binde me not, and let me goe. Must I, who came to travaile thorow you, Grow your fixt subject, because you are true?

Venus heard me sigh this song, And by Loves sweetest Part, Variety, she swore, 20 She heard not this till now; and that it should be so no more. She went, examin'd, and return'd ere long, And said, alas, Some two or three Poore Heretiques in love there bee, Which thinke to stablish dangerous constancie. 25 But I have told them, since you will be true, You shall be true to them, who'are false to you.

[The Indifferent. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: A Songe, Songe, or no title, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, S, S96: Sonnet. P]

[3 lonenesse] lovers 1669

maskes] sports 1669, S

and 1669: & 1633-39: om. 1650-54]

[12 spent] worn 1669]

[15 mee, 1633: me; 1635-69]

[17 travaile] spelt travell, travel 1635-69]

[19 sigh] sing 1669]

[20 sweetest Part,] sweetest sweet, 1669, P, S]

[21 and that it 1633, B, D, H49, Lec, S: it 1635-69, H40, P: and it A18, JC, N, O'F, S96, TC]

Loves Vsury.

For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now, I will allow, Usurious God of Love, twenty to thee, When with my browne, my gray haires equall bee; Till then, Love, let my body raigne, and let 5 Mee travell, sojourne, snatch, plot, have, forget, Resume my last yeares relict: thinke that yet We'had never met.

Let mee thinke any rivalls letter mine, And at next nine 10 Keepe midnights promise; mistake by the way The maid, and tell the Lady of that delay; Onely let mee love none, no, not the sport; From country grasse, to comfitures of Court, Or cities quelque choses, let report 15 My minde transport.

This bargaine's good; if when I'am old, I bee Inflam'd by thee, If thine owne honour, or my shame, or paine, Thou covet most, at that age thou shalt gaine. 20 Doe thy will then, then subject and degree, And fruit of love, Love I submit to thee, Spare mee till then, I'll beare it, though she bee One that loves mee.

[Loves Vsury. 1633-69, L74: no title, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, Lec, O'F, P, S: Elegie. S96]

[5 raigne, 1633, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, L74, Lec, P, S: range, 1635-69, O'F, S96. See note]

[6 snatch, 1633, 1669: match, 1635-54]

[7 relict] relique 1669]

[12 that] her 1669]

[13 sport; 1669: sport 1633-54: sport, most MSS.]

[15 let report 1633, 1669, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, L74, Lec, P, S: let not report 1635-54, O'F, S96, Chambers. See note]

[19 or paine 1633, 1669, and most MSS.: and paine 1635-54, O'F]

[22 fruit] fruites B, D, H49, Lec, O'F, S96]

[24 loves 1633, 1669 and all the MSS.: love 1635-54]

The Canonization.

For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsie, or my gout, My five gray haires, or ruin'd fortune flout, With wealth your state, your minde with Arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, 5 Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the Kings reall, or his stamped face Contemplate, what you will, approve, So you will let me love.

Alas, alas, who's injur'd by my love? 10 What merchants ships have my sighs drown'd? Who saies my teares have overflow'd his ground? When did my colds a forward spring remove? When did the heats which my veines fill Adde one more to the plaguie Bill? 15 Soldiers finde warres, and Lawyers finde out still Litigious men, which quarrels move, Though she and I do love.

Call us what you will, wee are made such by love; Call her one, mee another flye, 20 We'are Tapers too, and at our owne cost die, And wee in us finde the'Eagle and the Dove. The Phœnix ridle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutrall thing both sexes fit, 25 Wee dye and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

Wee can dye by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombes and hearse Our legend bee, it will be fit for verse; 30 And if no peece of Chronicle wee prove, We'll build in sonnets pretty roomes; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as halfe-acre tombes, And by these hymnes, all shall approve 35 Us Canoniz'd for Love:

And thus invoke us; You whom reverend love Made one anothers hermitage; You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage; Who did the whole worlds soule contract, and drove 40 Into the glasses of your eyes (So made such mirrors, and such spies, That they did all to you epitomize,) Countries, Townes, Courts: Beg from above A patterne of your love! 45

[The Canonization. 1633-39, A18, Cy, D, H49, Lec, N, O'F, P, TCC, TCD: Canonization. 1650-69, S: Canonizatio. S96: no title, B, H40, JC]

[3 five 1633, 1669: true 1635-54

fortune] fortunes 1669]

[4 improve, 1650-69: improve 1633-39]

[7 reall] Roiall Lec]

[14 veines] reynes 1669]

[15 more, 1633-54, Lec: man 1669, A18, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC]

[17 which] whom 1669]

[18 Though] While 1669]

[22 Dove. Ed: dove, 1633-69]

[24 are it. 1633-69: are it; Chambers and Grolier]

[25 So 1650-69: So, 1633-39. See note

fit, D, H49, Lec: fit. 1633-69. See note]

[29 tombes and 1633-54: tomb or 1669]

[30 legend] legends 1633]

[35 these 1633: those 1635-69]

[36 Love:] Love. 1633]

[39 rage; Ed: rage, 1633-69]

[40 contract] extract A18, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TCC]

[41 eyes 1633-69: eyes; Chambers]

[42-3 brackets, Ed]

[44 Courts: Beg] Courts Beg 1669: courts beg Chambers. See note

from] frow 1633]

[45 your 1669, A18, B, H40, JC, N, O'F, P, S96, TC: our 1633-54, D, H49, Lec

love! Ed: love. 1633-69]

The triple Foole.

I am two fooles, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining Poëtry; But where's that wiseman, that would not be I, If she would not deny? 5 Then as th'earths inward narrow crooked lanes Do purge sea waters fretfull salt away, I thought, if I could draw my paines, Through Rimes vexation, I should them allay, Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, 10 For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

But when I have done so, Some man, his art and voice to show, Doth Set and sing my paine, And, by delighting many, frees againe 15 Griefe, which verse did restraine. To Love, and Griefe tribute of Verse belongs, But not of such as pleases when'tis read, Both are increased by such songs: For both their triumphs so are published, 20 And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee.

[The triple Foole. 1633-69, A18, L74, N, TCC, TCD: Song or no title, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, HN, JC, Lec, O'F, P, S, S96]

[4 the wiser man, 1669]

[5 If he should not deny? P]

[6 narrow om. P: crooked om. B

lanes] vaines Cy, P]

[9 allay, 1633-39: allay. 1650-69, Chambers]

[10 numbers] number 1669]

[11 For, he tames it] He tames it much B]

[13 and] or 1669]

Lovers infinitenesse.

If yet I have not all thy love, Deare, I shall never have it all, I cannot breath one other sigh, to move, Nor can intreat one other teare to fall, And all my treasure, which should purchase thee, 5 Sighs, teares, and oathes, and letters I have spent. Yet no more can be due to mee, Then at the bargaine made was ment, If then thy gift of love were partiall, That some to mee, some should to others fall, 10 Deare, I shall never have Thee All.

Or if then thou gavest mee all, All was but All, which thou hadst then; But if in thy heart, since, there be or shall, New love created bee, by other men, 15 Which have their stocks intire, and can in teares, In sighs, in oathes, and letters outbid mee, This new love may beget new feares, For, this love was not vowed by thee. And yet it was, thy gift being generall, 20 The ground, thy heart is mine, what ever shall Grow there, deare, I should have it all.

Yet I would not have all yet, Hee that hath all can have no more, And since my love doth every day admit 25 New growth, thou shouldst have new rewards in store; Thou canst not every day give me thy heart, If thou canst give it, then thou never gavest it: Loves riddles are, that though thy heart depart, It stayes at home, and thou with losing savest it: 30 But wee will have a way more liberall, Then changing hearts, to joyne them, so wee shall Be one, and one anothers All.

[Lovers infinitenesse. 1633-69: Mon Tout. A25, C: no title, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, P, S: Elegie. S96

Query Loves infinitenesse.]

[3 move, Ed: move; 1633-69]

[4 fall, Ed: fall. 1633: fall; 1635-69]

[6 teares,] teares 1633

spent. Ed: spent, 1633-69 and Grolier: spent; Chambers]

[8 Then 1633-35, 1669: That 1639-54]

[9 were] was 1669

partiall] generall A25, C]

[11 Thee 1633: It 1635-69 (it 1669)]

[12 gavest] givest 1669]

[13 then; 1635-54: then, 1633]

[17 and letters 1633: in letters 1635-69]

[19 thee. 1639-69: thee, 1633-35]

[20 it] is 1633]

[21 is 1633, 1669: was 1635-54]

[25-6 And since my heart doth every day beget New love, &c. A25.]

[29-30

Except mine come when thine doth part And in such giving it, thou savest it: A25, C

Perchance mine comes, when thine doth parte, And by such losing it, &c. JC ]

[31 have] love 1669: find A25, C]

[32 them] us 1669]

Song.

Sweetest love, I do not goe, For wearinesse of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter Love for mee; But since that I 5 Must dye at last, 'tis best, To use my selfe in jest Thus by fain'd deaths to dye;

Yesternight the Sunne went hence, And yet is here to day, 10 He hath no desire nor sense, Nor halfe so short a way: Then feare not mee, But beleeve that I shall make Speedier journeyes, since I take 15 More wings and spurres then hee.

O how feeble is mans power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot adde another houre, Nor a lost houre recall! 20 But come bad chance, And wee joyne to'it our strength, And wee teach it art and length, It selfe o'r us to'advance.

When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not winde, 25 But sigh'st my soule away, When thou weep'st, unkindly kinde, My lifes blood doth decay. It cannot bee That thou lov'st mee, as thou say'st, 30 If in thine my life thou waste, Thou art the best of mee.

Let not thy divining heart Forethinke me any ill, Destiny may take thy part, 35 And may thy feares fulfill; But thinke that wee Are but turn'd aside to sleepe; They who one another keepe Alive, ne'r parted bee. 40

[Song. 1633-69: Song. or no title, A18, A25, B, C, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD: in A18, N, TCC, TCD, this with Send home my long stray'd eyes and The Bait are given as Songs which were made to certain ayres which were made before.]

[1-4 In most MSS. these lines are written as two long lines, and so with ll. 9-12, 17-20, 25-28, 33-36]

[4 mee; 1650-69: mee, 1633-39]

[5-8 But since ... dye; 1633, A18, A25, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, P, S, S96, TC:

At the last must part 'tis best, Thus to use my selfe in jest By fained deaths to dye; 1635-54, O'F: Must dye at last, 'tis best, Thus to use my self in jest By fained death to dye; 1669 ]

[15 Speedier] Hastier 1669]

[20 recall! Ed: recall? 1633-69]

[25 not wind 1633: no wind 1635-69]

[32 Thou 1633 and MSS. generally: That 1635-54: Which 1669

best 1633-54: life 1669]

[36 may 1633-35, 1669: make 1639-54

fulfill; Ed: fulfill, 1633-69]

[38 turn'd] lai'd 1669]

The Legacie.

When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye As often as from thee I goe, Though it be but an houre agoe, And Lovers houres be full eternity, I can remember yet, that I 5 Something did say, and something did bestow; Though I be dead, which sent mee, I should be Mine owne executor and Legacie.

I heard mee say, Tell her anon, That my selfe, (that is you, not I,) 10 Did kill me, and when I felt mee dye, I bid mee send my heart, when I was gone, But I alas could there finde none, When I had ripp'd me,'and search'd where hearts did lye; It kill'd mee againe, that I who still was true, 15 In life, in my last Will should cozen you.

Yet I found something like a heart, But colours it, and corners had, It was not good, it was not bad, It was intire to none, and few had part. 20 As good as could be made by art It seem'd; and therefore for our losses sad, I meant to send this heart in stead of mine, But oh, no man could hold it, for twas thine.

[The Legacie. 1633-69: Legacie. L74: Song. or no title, A25, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, Lec, O'F, P, S, S96: Elegie. A18, N, TCC, TCD]

[1 When I dyed last,] When last I dyed, 1669]

[1-4 (and deare ... eternity) Grolier.]

[7 sent 1633, 1669: meant 1635-54

should be] might be 1669]

[10 that is 1635-69: that's 1633: brackets from A18, N, TC]

[13 none, 1633-69: none. Chambers and Grolier]

[14 When ... did 1633, A25 (doe), D, H40, H49, Lec, S, S96: When I had ripp'd, and search'd where hearts should 1635-69, A18, L74, N, TC lye; Ed: lye, 1633-69, Chambers and Grolier. See note]

[18 But] For 1650-69]

[20 part. 1633-39: part: 1650-69]

[22 seem'd; Ed: seem'd, 1633-69, Grolier, and Chambers

our losses sad, 1633-54, A18, A25, L74, N, O'F, P, S96, TC: our loss be sad, 1669: our loss be ye sad. B, Cy, D, H40, H49, Lec, S: our losses sad; Grolier: our loss be sad. Chambers]

[23 meant] thought A18, L74, N, O'F, TC

this 1633: that 1635-69]

A Feaver.

Oh doe not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone, That thee I shall not celebrate, When I remember, thou wast one.

But yet thou canst not die, I know; 5 To leave this world behinde, is death, But when thou from this world wilt goe, The whole world vapors with thy breath.

Or if, when thou, the worlds soule, goest, It stay, tis but thy carkasse then, 10 The fairest woman, but thy ghost, But corrupt wormes, the worthyest men.

O wrangling schooles, that search what fire Shall burne this world, had none the wit Unto this knowledge to aspire, 15 That this her feaver might be it?

And yet she cannot wast by this, Nor long beare this torturing wrong, For much corruption needfull is To fuell such a feaver long. 20

These burning fits but meteors bee, Whose matter in thee is soone spent. Thy beauty,'and all parts, which are thee, Are unchangeable firmament.

Yet t'was of my minde, seising thee, 25 Though it in thee cannot persever. For I had rather owner bee Of thee one houre, then all else ever.

[A Feaver. 1633-69, D, H40, H49, Lec, S96: Of a fever. L74: The Fever. B, Cy, O'F, P: Fever. A18, N, TCC, TCD: no title, JC]

[5 know; Ed: know, 1633-69]

[8 with] in 1669]

[16 might] must TCC]

[18 beare] endure 1669

torturing] tormenting JC, O'F (corr. from torturing)]

[19 For much 1633, A18, B, D, H40, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, S, S96, TC: For more 1635-69, O'F: Far more Cy, P]

[22 is soon] soon is 1669]

[24 Are] Are an 1669, P, S96]

[25 Yet 'twas of 1633-54: And here as 1669]

[27 For] Yet 1669]

Aire and Angels.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapelesse flame, Angells affect us oft, and worship'd bee; Still when, to where thou wert, I came, 5 Some lovely glorious nothing I did see. But since my soule, whose child love is, Takes limmes of flesh, and else could nothing doe, More subtile then the parent is, Love must not be, but take a body too, 10 And therefore what thou wert, and who, I bid Love aske, and now That it assume thy body, I allow, And fixe it selfe in thy lip, eye, and brow.

Whilst thus to ballast love, I thought, 15 And so more steddily to have gone, With wares which would sinke admiration, I saw, I had loves pinnace overfraught, Ev'ry thy haire for love to worke upon Is much too much, some fitter must be sought; 20 For, nor in nothing, nor in things Extreme, and scatt'ring bright, can love inhere; Then as an Angell, face, and wings Of aire, not pure as it, yet pure doth weare, So thy love may be my loves spheare; 25 Just such disparitie As is twixt Aire and Angells puritie, 'Twixt womens love, and mens will ever bee.

[Aire and Angels. 1633-69, A18, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD: no title, B, H40]

[4 bee; Ed: bee, 1633-69]

[5 came,] came 1633]

[6 I did] did I 1669

see. Ed: see, 1633-69]

[7 since Ed: since, 1633-69]

[11 who, Ed: who 1633-69]

[14 lip, eye,] lips, eyes, 1669, Chambers]

[19 Ev'ry thy 1633-39, A18, B (Even), D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, S (Ever), S96, TC: Thy every 1650-69]

[22 scatt'ring Ed: scattring, 1633-35: scattering 1639-69]

[27 Aire 1633-54 and all MSS.: Airs 1669, Chambers]

Breake of day.

'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie downe, because 'twas night? Love which in spight of darknesse brought us hether, 5 Should in despight of light keepe us together.

Light hath no tongue, but is all eye; If it could speake as well as spie, This were the worst, that it could say, That being well, I faine would stay, 10 And that I lov'd my heart and honor so, That I would not from him, that had them, goe.

Must businesse thee from hence remove? Oh, that's the worst disease of love, The poore, the foule, the false, love can 15 Admit, but not the busied man. He which hath businesse, and makes love, doth doe Such wrong, as when a maryed man doth wooe.

[Breake of day, 1633-69, A18, L74, N, TCC, TCD: no title or Sonnet, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, P, S, S96: A Songe. A25]

[1 day;] day, 1633]

[5 in spight of 1633-39, 1669, A25, JC, S96: in dispight 1650-54, A18, D, H40, H49, L74, Lec, N, S, TC]

[6 in despight 1633, 1650-69: in spight 1635-39

keepe] holde A18, L74, N, S96, TC]

[9 were] is A18, L74, N, O'F, S TC]

[11 I lov'd] I love JC, N, O'F, TC]

[12 him, that had them 1633-54, D, H49, Lec, S: him that had them (or it) A25, B, C, L74, N, O'F, TC: her, that had them, 1669: her that hath them B, JC (it), S96]

[15 foule,] foole, H40]

[18 as when ... doth 1633, 1669, A25, C, D, H40, H49, Lec, S, S96: as if ... should A18, B, JC, L74, N, O'F, TC: as when ... should 1635-54]

The Anniversarie.

All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The Sun it selfe, which makes times, as they passe, Is elder by a yeare, now, then it was When thou and I first one another saw: 5 All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no to morrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keepes his first, last, everlasting day. 10

Two graves must hide thine and my coarse, If one might, death were no divorce. Alas, as well as other Princes, wee, (Who Prince enough in one another bee,) Must leave at last in death, these eyes, and eares, 15 Oft fed with true oathes, and with sweet salt teares; But soules where nothing dwells but love (All other thoughts being inmates) then shall prove This, or a love increased there above, When bodies to their graves, soules from their graves remove. 20

And then wee shall be throughly blest, But wee no more, then all the rest; Here upon earth, we'are Kings, and none but wee Can be such Kings, nor of such subjects bee. Who is so safe as wee? where none can doe 25 Treason to us, except one of us two. True and false feares let us refraine, Let us love nobly, and live, and adde againe Yeares and yeares unto yeares, till we attaine To write threescore: this is the second of our raigne. 30

[The Anniversarie. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: no title, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, P, S: Ad Liviam. S96]

[3 times, as they passe, 1633, 1669 (which brackets which ... pass), MSS.: times, as these pass, 1635-54: time, as they pass, Chambers, who attributes to 1633, 1669]

[12 divorce. Ed: divorce, 1633-69]

[17 love Ed: love; 1633-69]

[20 to their graves] to their grave 1635-39]

[22 wee A18, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC: now 1633-69. See note

rest; Ed: rest. 1633-69]

[23 none om. 1669, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, S, S96]

[24 None are such Kings, 1669, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, S, S96]

nor] and D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, S, S96, bee. Ed: bee; 1633-69]

[27 refraine,] refraine. 1669]

[30 threescore: Grolier: threescore, 1633-69]

A Valediction: of my name, in the window.

I.

My name engrav'd herein, Doth contribute my firmnesse to this glasse, Which, ever since that charme, hath beene As hard, as that which grav'd it, was; Thine eye will give it price enough, to mock 5 The diamonds of either rock.

II.

'Tis much that Glasse should bee As all confessing, and through-shine as I, 'Tis more, that it shewes thee to thee, And cleare reflects thee to thine eye. 10 But all such rules, loves magique can undoe, Here you see mee, and I am you.

III.

As no one point, nor dash, Which are but accessaries to this name, The showers and tempests can outwash, 15 So shall all times finde mee the same; You this intirenesse better may fulfill, Who have the patterne with you still.

IIII.

Or, if too hard and deepe This learning be, for a scratch'd name to teach, 20 It, as a given deaths head keepe, Lovers mortalitie to preach, Or thinke this ragged bony name to bee My ruinous Anatomie.

V.

Then, as all my soules bee, 25 Emparadis'd in you, (in whom alone I understand, and grow and see,) The rafters of my body, bone Being still with you, the Muscle, Sinew, and Veine, Which tile this house, will come againe. 30

VI.

Till my returne, repaire And recompact my scattered body so. As all the vertuous powers which are Fix'd in the starres, are said to flow Into such characters, as graved bee 35 When these starres have supremacie:

VII.

So, since this name was cut When love and griefe their exaltation had, No doore 'gainst this names influence shut; As much more loving, as more sad, 40 'Twill make thee; and thou shouldst, till I returne, Since I die daily, daily mourne.

VIII.

When thy inconsiderate hand Flings ope this casement, with my trembling name, To looke on one, whose wit or land, 45 New battry to thy heart may frame, Then thinke this name alive, and that thou thus In it offendst my Genius.

IX.

And when thy melted maid, Corrupted by thy Lover's gold, and page, 50 His letter at thy pillow'hath laid, Disputed it, and tam'd thy rage, And thou begin'st to thaw towards him, for this, May my name step in, and hide his.

X.

And if this treason goe 55 To an overt act, and that thou write againe; In superscribing, this name flow Into thy fancy, from the pane. So, in forgetting thou remembrest right, And unaware to mee shalt write. 60

XI.

But glasse, and lines must bee, No meanes our firme substantiall love to keepe; Neere death inflicts this lethargie, And this I murmure in my sleepe; Impute this idle talke, to that I goe, 65 For dying men talke often so.

[A Valediction: Of &c. D, H49: A Valediction of &c. 1633-69, H40, Lec; Valediction of &c. A18, N, TCC, TCD: A Valediction of my name in the Glasse Window Cy: A Valediction to &c. B: Valediction 4: of Glasse O'F: Valediction in Glasse P: The Diamond and Glasse S: Vpon the ingravinge of his name with a Diamonde in his mistris windowe when he was to travel. S96 (This is added to the title in O'F.): similarly, JC]

[4 was; Ed: was, 1633-69]

[5 eye] eyes A18, B, Cy, JC, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC]

[8 I, 1633-54: I 1669]

[12 am you.] see you. 1669]

[14 accessaries 1633-69, O'F, S: accessary A18, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, P, S96, TC]

[15 tempests 1633, 1669: tempest 1635-54]

[19 Or, Ed: Or 1633-69]

[32 so. 1633-35: so, 1639-69, Chambers. See note]

[34 flow Ed: flow, 1633-69]

[36 these 1633: those 1635-69

have] had 1669

supremacie: 1633-69: supremacie. 1650-69. See note]

[37 So, Ed: So 1633-69]

[39 shut; Ed: shut, 1633-69]

[44 ope 1633-69, O'F, S96: out A18, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, P, S, TC]

[48 offendst] offends 1669]

[50 and] or 1669, JC, O'F, S96]

[52-3

Disputed thou it, and tame thy rage. If thou to him begin'st to thaw for this,

1669]

[55 goe] growe JC, O'F, S]

[56 againe; 1633: againe: 1635-69]

[57 this] my 1669]

[58 pane. 1633: Pen, 1635-69, O'F, S]

[60 unaware] unawares B, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC]

[64 this] thus 1635-69, O'F, P, S, S96]

Twicknam garden.

Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares, Hither I come to seeke the spring, And at mine eyes, and at mine eares, Receive such balmes, as else cure every thing; But O, selfe traytor, I do bring 5 The spider love, which transubstantiates all, And can convert Manna to gall, And that this place may thoroughly be thought True Paradise, I have the serpent brought.

'Twere wholsomer for mee, that winter did 10 Benight the glory of this place, And that a grave frost did forbid These trees to laugh, and mocke mee to my face; But that I may not this disgrace Indure, nor yet leave loving, Love let mee 15 Some senslesse peece of this place bee; Make me a mandrake, so I may groane here, Or a stone fountaine weeping out my yeare.

Hither with christall vyals, lovers come, And take my teares, which are loves wine, 20 And try your mistresse Teares at home, For all are false, that tast not just like mine; Alas, hearts do not in eyes shine, Nor can you more judge womans thoughts by teares, Then by her shadow, what she weares. 25 O perverse sexe, where none is true but shee, Who's therefore true, because her truth kills mee.

[Twicknam garden. 1633-69: do. or Twitnam Garden. A18, L74 (in margin), N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD: In a Garden. B: no title, A25, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, P]

[3 eares] years 1669]

[4 balms ... cure 1633, A25, D, H49: balm ... cures 1635-69, A18, B, Cy, L74, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC

thing; Ed: thing, 1633: thing: 1635-69]

[6 spider] spiders 1669]

[8 thoroughly 1633-39: throughly 1650-69]

[12 did] would A18, A25, N, TC]

[13 laugh,] laugh 1633]

[14 that I may not] since I cannot 1669]

[15 nor yet leave loving, 1633: om. D, H40, H49, Lec: nor leave this garden, 1635-69, A18, A25, Cy, JC, L74, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC]

[17 groane A18, D, H40, H49, N, TC: grow 1633-69, B, L74, Lec, O'F, P, S, S96]

[18 my yeare, 1633, 1669, D, H40, H49, Lec: the yeare. 1635-54, A18, A25, L74, N, O'F, P, TC]

[20 loves] lovers 1639]

[24 womans A18, D, H40, H49, L74, N, TC: womens 1633-69, Lec, P, S96]

A Valediction: of the booke.

I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe To anger destiny, as she doth us, How I shall stay, though she Esloygne me thus And how posterity shall know it too; How thine may out-endure 5 Sybills glory, and obscure Her who from Pindar could allure, And her, through whose helpe Lucan is not lame, And her, whose booke (they say) Homer did finde, and name.

Study our manuscripts, those Myriades 10 Of letters, which have past twixt thee and mee, Thence write our Annals, and in them will bee To all whom loves subliming fire invades, Rule and example found; There, the faith of any ground 15 No schismatique will dare to wound, That sees, how Love this grace to us affords, To make, to keep, to use, to be these his Records.

This Booke, as long-liv'd as the elements, Or as the worlds forme, this all-graved tome 20 In cypher writ, or new made Idiome, Wee for loves clergie only'are instruments: When this booke is made thus, Should againe the ravenous Vandals and Goths inundate us, 25 Learning were safe; in this our Universe Schooles might learne Sciences, Spheares Musick, Angels Verse.

Here Loves Divines, (since all Divinity Is love or wonder) may finde all they seeke, Whether abstract spirituall love they like, 30 Their Soules exhal'd with what they do not see, Or, loth so to amuze Faiths infirmitie, they chuse Something which they may see and use; For, though minde be the heaven, where love doth sit, 35 Beauty a convenient type may be to figure it.

Here more then in their bookes may Lawyers finde, Both by what titles Mistresses are ours, And how prerogative these states devours, Transferr'd from Love himselfe, to womankinde, 40 Who though from heart, and eyes, They exact great subsidies, Forsake him who on them relies, And for the cause, honour, or conscience give, Chimeraes, vaine as they, or their prerogative. 45

Here Statesmen, (or of them, they which can reade,) May of their occupation finde the grounds: Love and their art alike it deadly wounds, If to consider what 'tis, one proceed, In both they doe excell 50 Who the present governe well, Whose weaknesse none doth, or dares tell; In this thy booke, such will their nothing see, As in the Bible some can finde out Alchimy.

Thus vent thy thoughts; abroad I'll studie thee, 55 As he removes farre off, that great heights takes; How great love is, presence best tryall makes, But absence tryes how long this love will bee; To take a latitude Sun, or starres, are fitliest view'd 60 At their brightest, but to conclude Of longitudes, what other way have wee, But to marke when, and where the darke eclipses bee?

[A Valediction: of &c. Ed: A Valediction of the Booke A18, N, TCC, TCD: Valediction of the booke. D, H49, Lec: Valediction 3: Of the Booke O'F: The Booke Cy, P: Valediction to his booke. 1633-69, S: A Valediction of a booke left in a windowe. JC]

[18 Records, 1633-69: records, Grolier]

[20 tome 1633-35: to me 1639-54: Tomb. 1669, A18, Cy, Lec, N, S]

[21 Idiome, Ed: Idiome; 1633-69]

[22 instruments: Ed: instruments, 1633-69. See note]

[25 and Goths inundate us, A18, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, Lec, N, TC: and the Goths invade us, 1633-54, S: and Goths invade us, 1669, H40, JC (or), O'F, P]

[26 were safe; 1633: rest omit semicolon.

Universe 1633-39: Universe, 1650-69]

[30 abstract] abstracted 1669]

[32 Or, ... amuze Ed: Or ... amuze, 1633-69]

[33 infirmitie,] infirmities, 1669, D, H49, Lec]

[38 titles] titles, 1663]

[39 these states] those rites A18, N, TC]

[40 womankinde, Ed: womankinde. 1633-54: womankinde: 1669]

[43 relies, Ed: relies 1633: relies; 1635-69]

[44 give,] give; 1635-69]

[46 Statesmen] Tradesmen Cy, P]

[47 grounds: Ed: grounds, 1633-69]

[49 'tis, one] 'tis on 1669]

[53 their nothing 1635-54, A18, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC (nothings), Lec, N, O'F, S, TC (but the MSS. waver between their and there): there something 1633, 1669, P]

[55 vent 1633, 1669: went 1635-54

thoughts; abroad] thoughts abroad: 1669]

[56 great heights] shadows O'F]

[63 1669 omits darke]

Communitie.

Good wee must love, and must hate ill, For ill is ill, and good good still, But there are things indifferent, Which wee may neither hate, nor love, But one, and then another prove, As wee shall finde our fancy bent. 5

If then at first wise Nature had Made women either good or bad, Then some wee might hate, and some chuse, But since shee did them so create, 10 That we may neither love, nor hate, Onely this rests, All, all may use.

If they were good it would be seene, Good is as visible as greene, And to all eyes it selfe betrayes: 15 If they were bad, they could not last, Bad doth it selfe, and others wast, So, they deserve nor blame, nor praise.

But they are ours as fruits are ours, He that but tasts, he that devours, 20 And he that leaves all, doth as well: Chang'd loves are but chang'd sorts of meat, And when hee hath the kernell eate, Who doth not fling away the shell?

[Communitie. 1635-69: no title, 1633, A18, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD]

[3 there 1635-69, A18, B, N, O'F, S, TC, &c.: these 1633, D, Cy, H49, Lec]

[7 had Ed: had, 1633-39]

[12 All, all 1633-54: All men 1669]

[15 betrayes: 1650-69: betrayes, 1633-39]

[21 well: Ed: well, 1633-69]

Loves growth.

I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure As I had thought it was, Because it doth endure Vicissitude, and season, as the grasse; Me thinkes I lyed all winter, when I swore, 5 My love was infinite, if spring make'it more.

But if this medicine, love, which cures all sorrow With more, not onely bee no quintessence, But mixt of all stuffes, paining soule, or sense, And of the Sunne his working vigour borrow, 10 Love's not so pure, and abstract, as they use To say, which have no Mistresse but their Muse, But as all else, being elemented too, Love sometimes would contemplate, sometimes do.

And yet no greater, but more eminent, 15 Love by the spring is growne; As, in the firmament, Starres by the Sunne are not inlarg'd, but showne. Gentle love deeds, as blossomes on a bough, From loves awakened root do bud out now. 20 If, as in water stir'd more circles bee Produc'd by one, love such additions take, Those like so many spheares, but one heaven make, For, they are all concentrique unto thee. And though each spring doe adde to love new heate, 25 As princes doe in times of action get New taxes, and remit them not in peace, No winter shall abate the springs encrease.

[Loves growth. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: The Spring. or Spring. B, Cy, D, H49, Lec, O'F, P, S, S96: no title, JC]

[9 paining 1633, A18, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, S96, TC: vexing 1635-69, Cy, O'F, P, S]

[10 working 1633 and MSS. as above: active 1635-69 and MSS. as above]

[11 pure, and] pure an 1669, O'F]

[14 do.] do 1633]

[18-19 Starres ... showne. Gentle love Ed: Starres ... showne, Gentle love 1633-69:

Stars are not by the sunne enlarg'd; but showne Greater; Loves deeds

P. See note]

[24 thee. Ed: thee, 1633-69]

[28 the 1633, A18, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, S96, TC: this 1635-69, Cy, O'F, P, S]

Loves exchange.

Love, any devill else but you, Would for a given Soule give something too. At Court your fellowes every day, Give th'art of Riming, Huntsmanship, or Play, For them which were their owne before; 5 Onely I have nothing which gave more, But am, alas, by being lowly, lower.

I aske no dispensation now To falsifie a teare, or sigh, or vow, I do not sue from thee to draw 10 A non obstante on natures law, These are prerogatives, they inhere In thee and thine; none should forsweare Except that hee Loves minion were.

Give mee thy weaknesse, make mee blinde, 15 Both wayes, as thou and thine, in eies and minde; Love, let me never know that this Is love, or, that love childish is; Let me not know that others know That she knowes my paines, least that so 20 A tender shame make me mine owne new woe.

If thou give nothing, yet thou'art just, Because I would not thy first motions trust; Small townes which stand stiffe, till great shot Enforce them, by warres law condition not. 25 Such in loves warfare is my case, I may not article for grace, Having put Love at last to shew this face.

This face, by which he could command And change the Idolatrie of any land, 30 This face, which wheresoe'r it comes, Can call vow'd men from cloisters, dead from tombes, And melt both Poles at once, and store Deserts with cities, and make more Mynes in the earth, then Quarries were before. 35

For this, Love is enrag'd with mee, Yet kills not. If I must example bee To future Rebells; If th'unborne Must learne, by my being cut up, and torne: Kill, and dissect me, Love; for this 40 Torture against thine owne end is, Rack't carcasses make ill Anatomies.

[Loves exchange. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: no title, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, P]

[4 or] and most MSS.

Play D: play 1633-69]

[9 or sigh, or vow, 1633-54: a sigh, a vow, 1669]

[18 is; Ed: is. 1633-69]

[20 paines] paine A18, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, P, TC]

[21 1669 omits new]

[28 Love D: love 1633-69

this] his 1669]

[36 For this, Ed: For, this 1633-69

Love D: love 1633-69]

[37 not. If Ed: not; if 1633-39: not: if 1650-69]

Confined Love.

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, And thence a law did grow, 5 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? Are birds divorc'd, or are they chidden 10 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.

Who e'r rigg'd faire ship to lie in harbors, 15 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 A thousand it possesse, 20 But doth wast with greedinesse.

[Confined Love 1635-69: 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] this 1669

lesser] the lesser A18, Cy, JC, P]

[6 might 1633-69: should B, Cy, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, O'F, S, TC]

[9 lend] bend 1669]

[11 mate, 1633-39: meate, 1650: meat, 1669

a night (i.e. a-night) 1633-54: all night 1669]

[12 Beasts] Beast 1635]

[15 ship] ships 1669, Chambers]

[16 seeke new lands 1633-35 and MSS.: seeke lands 1639-69, Chambers, whose note is incorrect

withall 1633: with all 1635-69]

[17 built 1633-35: build 1639-69]

The Dreame.

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, Therefore thou wakd'st me wisely; yet 5 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, Not to dreame all my dreame, let's act the rest. 10

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, But when I saw thou sawest my heart, 15 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 Prophane, to thinke thee any thing but thee. 20

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; 'Tis not all spirit, pure, and brave, 25 If mixture it of Feare, 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 Will dreame that hope againe, but else would die. 30

[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 ... continuest 1669, 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] doe A25, 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 when 1669]

[19 must] doe A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H49, Lec, N, O'F, P, TC]

[20 Prophane,] Profaness A18, D, H49, L74, Lec, N, S96, TC]

[24 feare's as strong 1635-54, A18, D, H49, L74, Lec, TCC: feares are strong 1669, B, Cy, O'F, P, S, S96: feare is strong, N, TCD]

[26 have. 1669: have; 1633-54]

[29 cam'st] com'st 1669

Then I] Thus I A18, D, H49, L74, Lec, N, TC (RP31 agrees with this group throughout)]

A Valediction: of weeping.

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, For thus they bee 5 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.

On a round ball 10 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, Which thee doth weare, 15 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, Draw not up seas to drowne me in thy spheare, 20 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, To doe me more harme, then it purposeth; 25 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, JC]

[3 beare, 1633: beare; 1635-69]

[6 thee; Ed: thee, 1633-69]

[8 falst 1633-69: falls A18, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, S, TC]

[9 shore.] shore, 1633]

[13 All, 1633: All 1635: All. 1639: All: 1650-69]

[16 world] would 1669]

[20 up seas] thy seas 1669]

[22 soone; Ed: soone, 1633-69]

[25 purposeth; Ed: purposeth, 1633-69]

Loves Alchymie.

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, I should not finde that hidden mysterie; 5 Oh, 'tis imposture all: And as no chymique yet th'Elixar got, But glorifies his pregnant pot, If by the way to him befall Some odoriferous thing, or medicinall, 10 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? Ends love in this, that my man, 15 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, Which he in her Angelique findes, 20 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 but Mummy, 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, A25]

[14 Bubles] Bubless 1669]

[15 my 1633-69 and MSS.: any S96, 1855, and Grolier (perhaps from some copy of 1633)]

[23-4 punctuation from MSS:

at their best, Sweetnesse, and wit they'are, but, Mummy, possest.

1633-54: 1669 omits all punctuation in these lines]

The Flea.

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; Thou know'st that this cannot be said 5 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.

Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare, 10 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, And cloysterd in these living walls of Jet. 15 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 since Purpled thy naile, in blood of innocence? 20 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; 'Tis true, then learne how false, feares bee; 25 Just so much honor, when thou yeeld'st to mee, Will wast, as this flea's death tooke life from thee.

[The Flea is placed here in the 1633 edition: 1635-69 place it at beginning of Songs 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 sucks 1669]

[5 Thou know'st that 1633-54, D, H49, Lec: Confess it. This cannot be said 1669, A18, A25, B, Cy, H40, L74, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC]

[6 nor shame, nor losse 1633-54 (shame 1633), D, H49, Lec: or shame, or loss 1669, A18, A25, B, Cy, H40, L74, N, O'F, P, TC]

[9 would] could 1669]

[11: yea, 1633-54, D, H49, Lec: nay, 1669, A18, A25, B, C, H40, L74, N, O'F, S, TC]

[16 you] thee A18, Cy, N, O'F, S, S96, TC]

[21 Wherein] In what A18, A25, B, Cy, L74, N, O'F, S, S96, TC]

[22 drop] blood 1669]

The Curse.

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, And shee yeeld then to all that are his foes; 5 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 hee Make, by but thinking, who hath made him such: 10 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, For land which had been his, if he had not 15 Himselfe incestuously an heire begot:

May he dreame Treason, and beleeve, that hee Meant to performe it, and confesse, and die, And no record tell why: His sonnes, which none of his may bee, 20 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:

The venom of all stepdames, gamsters gall, 25 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 Be annex'd in schedules unto this by mee, 30 Fall on that man; For if it be a shee Nature before hand hath out-cursed mee.

[The Curse. 1633-69: A Curse. or The Curse. A18, A25, B, C, D, H40, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, S, TCC, TCD: Dirae. P, Q]

[2 curse] course 1669]

[3 His only, and only his purse 1633-54, A18, A25, B, C, D, H40, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, S, TC: Him, only for his purse 1669, Chambers: His one and his onely purse P]

[4 heart 1633-54 and MSS.: whore 1669 and Chambers]

[5 And she yeeld then to 1633-54 and MSS.: And then yield unto 1669, Chambers]

[8 getting, Ed: getting 1633-69

torne: Ed: torne; 1633-54: torne. 1669. Compare 16 and 24]

[9 cramp,] cramps, 1669, Chambers, and most MSS.]

[10 him 1633-54 and MSS.: them 1669, 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 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] Went A18, 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 ill 1669: ill, 1633-54]

The Message.

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, And false passions, 5 That they be Made by thee Fit for no good sight, keep them still.

Send home my harmlesse heart againe, Which no unworthy thought could staine; 10 But if it be taught by thine To make jestings Of protestings, And crosse both Word and oath, 15 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 thou Art in anguish 20 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 w^{ch} were made to &c. (vid. sup. p. 18) A18, N, TCC, TCD]

[2 thee; Ed: thee, 1633-69]

[3 But if they there 1669, S]

[10 staine;] staine, 1633-69]

[11 But 1635-69: Which 1633, A18, A25, D, H49, Lec, N, TC]

[14 crosse, A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC: breake 1633-69]

[16 Keep it still 'tis 1669]

[19 And may laugh, when that Thou D, H49, Lec]

[24 art now.] dost now. 1669]

A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day,

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 flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rayes; The worlds whole sap is sunke: 5 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.

Study me then, you who shall lovers bee 10 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 A quintessence even from nothingnesse, 15 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, Life, soule, forme, spirit, whence they beeing have; 20 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 To be two Chaosses, when we did show 25 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; Were I a man, that I were one, 30 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; If I an ordinary nothing were, 35 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 Sunne At this time to the Goat is runne To fetch new lust, and give it you, 40 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 Both the yeares, and the dayes deep midnight is. 45

[A nocturnal &c. 1633-69, A18, N, O'F, TCC, TCD]

[7 beds-feet,] beds-feet 1633-69]

[12 every 1633, A18, N, O'F (altered to a very), TC: a very 1635-69]

[16 emptinesse: 1719: emptinesse; Chambers and Grolier: emptinesse 1633-54: emptinesse, 1669. See note]

[20 have; Ed: have, 1633-69.]

[31 know;] know, 1633]

[32 beast,] beast; Grolier]

[34 love; All, all Ed: love, all, all 1633-69

invest; Ed: invest, 1633: invest 1635-69]

[37 renew. 1633: renew, 1635-69]

[41 all; Ed: all, 1633-69 and Chambers, who places a full stop after festivall]

[44 Eve, 1650-69: eve, 1633-39]

Witchcraft by a picture.

I fixe 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; Hadst thou the wicked skill 5 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; My picture vanish'd, vanish feares, 10 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. or Picture. 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] Although 1669 And 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 feares 1635-54, O'F: vanish, vanish fears, 1669]

[11 that] thy JC, O'F, S96]

[14 all] thy B, H40, S96]

The Baite.

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.

There will the river whispering runne 5 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, Each fish, which every channell hath, 10 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, And if my selfe have leave to see, 15 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, With strangling snare, or windowie net: 20

Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks out-wrest, Or curious traitors, sleavesilke flies Bewitch poore fishes wandring eyes.

For thee, thou needst no such deceit, 25 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's Compleate Angler: Fourth Day: Chap. XII.: Songs that were made &c. (vid. sup. p. 18) A18, N, TCC, TCD]

[2 some new] all the P]

[3 brookes, Ed: brookes: 1633-69]

[5 whispering 1633: whispring 1635-69]

[6 thy] thine 1669, A18, N, TC]

[7 inamor'd] enamelled Walton

stay] play 1669]

[11 to] unto JC, O'F, P: to see N: Most amoroussly to thee will swim Walton]

[15 my selfe] mine eyes Walton: my heart A18, N, TC]

[18 with] which 1633]

[20 snare,] snares, Walton

windowie] winding 1669. See note]

[23 Or 1633-69: Let Walton

sleavesilke 1635: sleave silke 1639-69 and Walton: sleavesicke 1633]

[24 To witch poor wandring fishes eyes. Walton]

[25 thou needst] there needs D, H49, Lec, S96]

[26 bait; Ed: bait, 1633-69]

[27 catch'd 1633-69: catch't Walton: caught P]

[28 Is wiser far, alas Walton]

The Apparition.

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, And thee, fain'd vestall, in worse armes shall see; 5 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, And in false sleepe will from thee shrinke, 10 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, Lest that preserve thee'; and since my love is spent, 15 I'had rather thou shouldst painfully repent, Then by my threatnings rest still innocent.

[The Apparition. 1633-69: do. or An Apparition. A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD]

[2 that thou thinkst] thou shalt think 1669]

[3 solicitation] solicitations JC, O'F]

[5 thee, ... vestall, Ed: thee ... vestall 1633-39: thee ... Vestall 1650-69]

[7 then] 1669 omits]

[10 in false sleepe will from 1633, Cy, D, H49, Lec, S: in false sleepe from 1635-54: in a false sleepe even from 1669: in a false sleepe from A25, P: in a false sleepe will from A18, N, TC]

[13 I;] I, 1633, some copies]

[17 rest still] keep thee A25, Cy, JC, O'F, P]

The broken heart.

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; Who will beleeve mee, if I sweare 5 That I have had the plague a yeare? Who would not laugh at mee, if I should say, I saw a flaske of powder burne a day?

Ah, what a trifle is a heart, If once into loves hands it come! 10 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: By him, as by chain'd shot, whole rankes doe dye, 15 He is the tyran Pike, our hearts the Frye.

If 'twere not so, what did become Of my heart, when I first saw thee? I brought a heart into the roome, But from the roome, I carried none with mee: 20 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.

Yet nothing can to nothing fall, 25 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 A hundred lesser faces, so 30 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, S96]

[8 flaske 1633, A25, B, C, Cy, D, H40, Lec, O'F (corrected from flash), P, S: flash 1635-69, A18, H49, N, TC]

[10 come! Ed: come? 1633-69]

[12 some; Ed: some, 1633-69]

[15 chain'd shot] chain-shott A18, A25, N, TC]

[16 tyran] Tyrant 1669

our hearts] and we 1669]

[17 did] could A18, A25, B, C, L74, O'F, N, TC: would B, Cy, M, S]

[20 mee: 1650-69: mee; 1633-39]

[23 alas,] alas 1633]

[24 first] fierce A18, B, N, TC]

[30 hundred] thousand A18, A25, B, Cy, L74, M, N, P, S, TC]

A Valediction: forbidding mourning.

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:

So let us melt, and make no noise, 5 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, Men reckon what it did and meant, 10 But trepidation of the spheares, Though greater farre, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers love (Whose soule is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove 15 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, Care lesse, eyes, lips, and hands to misse. 20

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.

If they be two, they are two so 25 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, Yet when the other far doth rome, 30 It leanes, and hearkens after it, And growes erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to mee, who must Like th'other foot, obliquely runne; Thy firmnes makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begunne. 35

[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's Life 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 other Walton]

[31 It] Thine Walton]

[32 that] mine Walton]

[34 runne; Ed: runne. 1633-69]

[35 circle] circles 1639-54]

[36 makes me] me to Walton]

The Extasie.

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. Our hands were firmely cimented 5 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 Was all the meanes to make us one, 10 And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation. As 'twixt two equall Armies, Fate Suspends uncertaine victorie, Our soules, (which to advance their state, 15 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, And wee said nothing, all the day. 20 If any, so by love refin'd, That he soules language understood, And by good love were growen all minde, Within convenient distance stood, He (though he knew not which soule spake, 25 Because both meant, both spake the same) Might thence a new concoction take, And part farre purer then he came. This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, 30 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, Love, these mixt soules, doth mixe againe, 35 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,) Redoubles still, and multiplies. 40 When love, with one another so Interinanimates two soules, That abler soule, which thence doth flow, Defects of lonelinesse controules. Wee then, who are this new soule, know, 45 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 Our bodies why doe wee forbeare? 50 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, Yeelded their forces, sense, to us, 55 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, Though it to body first repaire. 60 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: So must pure lovers soules descend 65 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 Weake men on love reveal'd may looke; 70 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, Let him still marke us, he shall see 75 Small change, when we'are to bodies gone.

[The Extasie. 1633-69: do. or Extasie. A18, A25, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD]

[3 reclining 1633-54: declining 1669]

[4 best. Ed: best; 1633-54

Sate we on one anothers breasts. 1669]

[6 With 1633, A18, A25, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, P, S, TC: By 1635-69, Chambers]

[8 string; Ed: string, 1633-69]

[9 to'entergraft 1633, A18, D, H40, H49, Lec, N, P, S, TC: to engraft 1635-69, A25, JC, O'F, Chambers]

[11 in 1633-69, P: on A18, A25, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, S, TC]

[15 their 1633 and most MSS.: our 1635-69, O'F, P]

[18 lay; Ed: lay, 1633-69]

[25 knew 1635-69, A18, A25, B, H40, H49, JC, N, P, TC: knowes 1633, D, Lec]

[29 doth] do 1669]

[31 sexe, 1669: sexe 1633-54]

[42 Interinanimates A18, A25, B, H40, H49, JC, N, O'F, P, TC: Interanimates 1633-69, D, Lec]

[44 loneliness] loveliness 1669]

[46 made, 1633-39: made: 1650-69]

[47 Atomies 1633-54: Atomes 1669]

[48 are soules, 1633, 1669: are soule, 1635-54]

[51 though they are not A18, A25, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TC: though not 1633-69]

[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 force 1633-69]

[59 Soe A18, A25, B, H40, JC, N, P, S, S96, TC: For 1633-69, D, H49, Lec]

[64 makes] make 1635-39]

[72 his] the 1669]

[76 gone. 1633, A18, A25, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, S, TC: growne. 1635-69, P, S96]

Loves Deitie.

I long to talke with some old lovers ghost, Who dyed before the god of Love was borne: I cannot thinke that hee, who then lov'd most, Sunke so low, as to love one which did scorne. But since this god produc'd a destinie, 5 And that vice-nature, custome, lets it be; I must love her, that loves not mee.

Sure, they which made him god, meant not so much, Nor he, in his young godhead practis'd it; But when an even flame two hearts did touch, 10 His office was indulgently to fit Actives to passives. Correspondencie Only his subject was; It cannot bee Love, till I love her, that loves mee.

But every moderne god will now extend 15 His vast prerogative, as far as Jove. To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlewe of the God of Love. Oh were wee wak'ned by this Tyrannie To ungod this child againe, it could not bee 20 I should love her, who loves not mee.

Rebell and Atheist too, why murmure I, As though I felt the worst that love could doe? Love might make me leave loving, or might trie A deeper plague, to make her love mee too, 25 Which, since she loves before, I'am loth to see; Falshood is worse then hate; and that must bee, If shee whom I love, should love mee.

[Loves Deitie. 1633-69, A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TCC, TCD: Elegye. P]

[8 much, 1639-69: much: 1633: much? 1635]

[9 it; Ed: it. 1633-69]

[13 subject] Subject 1669]

[14 Love, ... mee. 1633, 1669, A25, B, C, Cy, D, H40 (who), H49, JC, L74, N, P, S (lov'd), TCD: Love, if I love, who loves not me. 1635-54, O'F]

[19 Oh ... wak'ned] Were we not weak'ned 1669]

[21 That I should love, who loves not me. A18, A25, C, Cy, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, P, S, S96, TC: O'F reads as these but alters to as in printed edd.]

[24 might make A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, L74, N, P, S, S96, TC: may make 1633-69, Lec]

[26 Which,] Which 1633]

Loves diet.

To what a combersome unwieldinesse And burdenous corpulence my love had growne, But that I did, to make it lesse, And keepe it in proportion, Give it a diet, made it feed upon 5 That which love worst endures, discretion.

Above one sigh a day I'allow'd him not, Of which my fortune, and my faults had part; And if sometimes by stealth he got A she sigh from my mistresse heart, 10 And thought to feast on that, I let him see 'Twas neither very sound, nor meant to mee.

If he wroung from mee'a teare, I brin'd it so With scorne or shame, that him it nourish'd not; If he suck'd hers, I let him know 15 'Twas not a teare, which hee had got, His drinke was counterfeit, as was his meat; For, eyes which rowle towards all, weepe not, but sweat.

What ever he would dictate, I writ that, But burnt my letters; When she writ to me, 20 And that that favour made him fat, I said, if any title bee Convey'd by this, Ah, what doth it availe, To be the fortieth name in an entaile?

Thus I reclaim'd my buzard love, to flye 25 At what, and when, and how, and where I chuse; Now negligent of sport I lye, And now as other Fawkners use, I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe: And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talke, and sleepe. 30

[Loves diet. 1633-69, A18, A25, B, C, Cy, D, H40, H49, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, TCC (torn out of TCD): Amoris Dieta. S96]

[12 mee. Ed: mee; 1633-35: mee: 1639-69]

[18 For,] Her 1669]

[19 Whatever ... that, 1633-39, 1669: Whate'er might him distast I still writ that, 1650-54: Whatsoever hee would distast I writt that, A18, N, TC]

[20 But burnt my letters; When she writ to me, 1633: But burnt her letters when she writ to me, 1635: But burnt her letters when she writ to me; 1639-54, Chambers: But burnt my letters which she writ to me; 1669]

[21 that that 1633: if that 1635-69. See note]

[24 name] man 1669]

[25 reclaim'd 1635-69, A18, A25, B, D, H40, H49, L74, N, O'F, S, TCC: redeem'd 1633, Lec]

[26 chuse] chose 1669]

[27 sport 1635-69, A18, B, D, H40, H49, L74, Lec, S, S96, TCC: sports, 1633]

[30 and 1633 and most MSS.: or 1635-69, Cy, O'F, S]

The Will.

Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath, Great love, some Legacies; Here I bequeath Mine eyes to Argus, if mine eyes can see, If they be blinde, then Love, I give them thee; My tongue to Fame; to'Embassadours mine eares; 5 To women or the sea, my teares. Thou, Love, hast taught mee heretofore By making mee serve her who'had twenty more, That I should give to none, but such, as had too much before.

My constancie I to the planets give; 10 My truth to them, who at the Court doe live; Mine ingenuity and opennesse, To Jesuites; to Buffones my pensivenesse; My silence to'any, who abroad hath beene; My mony to a Capuchin. 15 Thou Love taught'st me, by appointing mee To love there, where no love receiv'd can be, Onely to give to such as have an incapacitie.

My faith I give to Roman Catholiques; All my good works unto the Schismaticks 20 Of Amsterdam; my best civility And Courtship, to an Universitie; My modesty I give to souldiers bare; My patience let gamesters share. Thou Love taughtst mee, by making mee 25 Love her that holds my love disparity, Onely to give to those that count my gifts indignity.

I give my reputation to those Which were my friends; Mine industrie to foes; To Schoolemen I bequeath my doubtfulnesse; 30 My sicknesse to Physitians, or excesse; To Nature, all that I in Ryme have writ; And to my company my wit. Thou Love, by making mee adore Her, who begot this love in mee before, 35 Taughtst me to make, as though I gave, when I did but restore.

To him for whom the passing bell next tolls, I give my physick bookes; my writen rowles Of Morall counsels, I to Bedlam give; My brazen medals, unto them which live 40 In want of bread; To them which passe among All forrainers, mine English tongue. Thou, Love, by making mee love one Who thinkes her friendship a fit portion For yonger lovers, dost my gifts thus disproportion. 45

Therefore I'll give no more; But I'll undoe The world by dying; because love dies too. Then all your beauties will bee no more worth Then gold in Mines, where none doth draw it forth; And all your graces no more use shall have 50 Then a Sun dyall in a grave. Thou Love taughtst mee, by making mee Love her, who doth neglect both mee and thee, To'invent, and practise this one way, to'annihilate all three.

[The Will. 1633-69: do. or A Will. A25, B, C, Cy, D, H40, H49, Lec, M, O'F, P: Loves Will. L74: Loves Legacies. A18, N, TCC (torn out of TCD), S: Testamentum. S96: His Last Will and Testament. JC]

[2 Here I 1633-54: I here 1669, Chambers]

[6 teares. Ed: teares; 1633-69]

[8 serve her] love her 1669]

[10 give; Ed: give, 1633-69]

[10-27 These stanzas printed without a break, 1669]

[14 hath] have 1669]

[18 an incapacitie.] no good Capacity. 1669]

[19-27 omitted, A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, L74 (added later), Lec, M (added later), N, P, TCC: given in O'F, S, and all editions]

[33 wit. Ed: wit; 1633-69]

[34 Love, 1650-69: love, 1633-39]

[36 did 1633 and MSS.: do 1635-69, O'F]

[45 gifts 1633-35, 1669: gift 1639-54]

[46 more; But 1633: more, but 1635-69]

[49-51 forth; ... grave. 1669: forth ... grave, 1633-39 by interchange: forth ... grave. 1650-54]

[54 all three. 1633-39, three being below the line in 1633 and above in 1635-39: al. three 1650-54, the full stop having fallen from three to all below it: annihilate thee. 1669]

The Funerall.

Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme Nor question much That subtile wreath of haire, which crowns my arme; The mystery, the signe you must not touch, For 'tis my outward Soule, 5 Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to controule, And keepe these limbes, her Provinces, from dissolution.

For if the sinewie thread my braine lets fall Through every part, 10 Can tye those parts, and make mee one of all; These haires which upward grew, and strength and art Have from a better braine, Can better do'it; Except she meant that I By this should know my pain, 15 As prisoners then are manacled, when they'are condemn'd to die.

What ere shee meant by'it, bury it with me, For since I am Loves martyr, it might breed idolatrie, If into others hands these Reliques came; 20 As'twas humility To afford to it all that a Soule can doe, So,'tis some bravery, That since you would save none of mee, I bury some of you.

[The Funerall. 1633-69, A18, B, Cy, D, H49, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD]

[3 which ... arme;] about mine arm; 1669]

[6 then to A18, B, Cy, D, H49, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC: unto 1633-69]

[12 These A18, B, Cy, D, H49, L74, N, S (The), S96, TC: Those 1633-69, Lec, O'F grew, 1633-39: grow, 1650-69]

[16 condemn'd] condem'nd 1633]

[17 with me, 1635-69 and MSS.: by me, 1633]

[24 save A18, B, Cy, D, H49, L74, N, P, TC: have 1633-69, Lec, O'F, S96: om. S]

The Blossome.

Little think'st thou, poore flower, Whom I have watch'd sixe or seaven dayes, And seene thy birth, and seene what every houre Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, 5 Little think'st thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall To morrow finde thee falne, or not at all.

Little think'st thou poore heart That labour'st yet to nestle thee, 10 And think'st by hovering here to get a part In a forbidden or forbidding tree, And hop'st her stiffenesse by long siege to bow: Little think'st thou, That thou to morrow, ere that Sunne doth wake, 15 Must with this Sunne, and mee a journey take.

But thou which lov'st to bee Subtile to plague thy selfe, wilt say, Alas, if you must goe, what's that to mee? Here lyes my businesse, and here I will stay: 20 You goe to friends, whose love and meanes present Various content To your eyes, eares, and tongue, and every part. If then your body goe, what need you a heart?

Well then, stay here; but know, 25 When thou hast stayd and done thy most; A naked thinking heart, that makes no show, Is to a woman, but a kinde of Ghost; How shall shee know my heart; or having none, Know thee for one? 30 Practise may make her know some other part, But take my word, shee doth not know a Heart.

Meet mee at London, then, Twenty dayes hence, and thou shalt see Mee fresher, and more fat, by being with men, 35 Then if I had staid still with her and thee. For Gods sake, if you can, be you so too: I would give you There, to another friend, whom wee shall finde As glad to have my body, as my minde. 40

[The Blossome. 1633-69, A18, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TCC, TCD: no title, A25]

[9-13 poore heart ... bow:] in brackets 1650-69]

[10 labour'st A18, N, TC: labourest 1635-69: labours 1633]

[15 that Sunne 1633: the Sunne 1635-69]

[18 wilt] will 1669]

[23 tongue A18, A25, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, S96, TC: om. S: tast 1633-69]

[24 need you a heart? A25, B, D, H49, Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TC: need you have a heart? JC: need your heart? 1633-69]

[38 I would A18, A25, B, D, H49, JC, N, O'F, S, S96, TC: I will 1633-69, Lec]

The Primrose, being at Montgomery Castle, upon the hill, on which it is situate.

Vpon this Primrose hill, Where, if Heav'n would distill A shoure of raine, each severall drop might goe To his owne primrose, and grow Manna so; And where their forme, and their infinitie 5 Make a terrestriall Galaxie, As the small starres doe in the skie: I walke to finde a true Love; and I see That'tis not a mere woman, that is shee, But must, or more, or lesse then woman bee. 10

Yet know I not, which flower I wish; a sixe, or foure; For should my true-Love lesse then woman bee, She were scarce any thing; and then, should she Be more then woman, shee would get above 15 All thought of sexe, and thinke to move My heart to study her, and not to love; Both these were monsters; Since there must reside Falshood in woman, I could more abide, She were by art, then Nature falsify'd. 20

Live Primrose then, and thrive With thy true number five; And women, whom this flower doth represent, With this mysterious number be content; Ten is the farthest number; if halfe ten 25 Belonge unto each woman, then Each woman may take halfe us men; Or if this will not serve their turne, Since all Numbers are odde, or even, and they fall First into this, five, women may take us all. 30

[The Primrose. 1633, A18, B, D, H49, Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TCC, TCD: The Primrose, being at &c. 1635-69]

[16 sexe, 1633: sexe; 1635-69]

[17 and not] and om. 1635-39, A18, N, S, TC]

[23 women] woman Chambers]

[25 number; Ed: number, 1633-69]

[26 Belonge all the MSS.: Belongs 1633-69. See note]

[27 men; Ed: men, 1633-39: men: 1650-69]

[28 their 1633-39: the 1650-69]

[29 and 1633: since 1635-69]

[30 this, Ed: this 1633, A18, B, D, H49, Lec, N, S, S96, TC: om. 1635-69, O'F, Chambers]

The Relique.

When my grave is broke up againe Some second ghest to entertaine, (For graves have learn'd that woman-head To be to more then one a Bed) And he that digs it, spies 5 A bracelet of bright haire about the bone, Will he not let'us alone, And thinke that there a loving couple lies, Who thought that this device might be some way To make their soules, at the last busie day, 10 Meet at this grave, and make a little stay?

If this fall in a time, or land, Where mis-devotion doth command, Then, he that digges us up, will bring Us, to the Bishop, and the King, 15 To make us Reliques; then Thou shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I A something else thereby; All women shall adore us, and some men; And since at such time, miracles are sought, 20 I would have that age by this paper taught What miracles wee harmelesse lovers wrought.

First, we lov'd well and faithfully, Yet knew not what wee lov'd, nor why, Difference of sex no more wee knew, 25 Then our Guardian Angells doe; Comming and going, wee Perchance might kisse, but not between those meales; Our hands ne'r toucht the seales, Which nature, injur'd by late law, sets free: 30 These miracles wee did; but now alas, All measure, and all language, I would passe, Should I tell what a miracle shee was.

[The Relique. 1633-69, A18, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TCC, TCD: no title, A25]

[13 mis-devotion 1633-54, A18, A25, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TC: mass-devotion 1669, Chambers]

[15 and 1633-54 and MSS.: or 1669, Chambers]

[17 Thou shalt be] You shal be A25, D, H49, JC, Lec, S. See note]

[20 time] times JC, O'F]

[21 have that age] that age were A18, N, TC]

[25-26 Difference ... doe, 1633, A18, N, TC:

Difference of Sex we never knew, No more then Guardian Angells do, 1635-69: Difference of Sex we never knew, More then our Guardian Angells do. A25, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, S, S96 (No more then our &c. B, S96)]

[26 doe; Ed: doe, 1633-69]

[27 wee Ed: wee, 1633-69]

[28 not] yet 1669

meales; Ed: meales. 1633: meales 1635-69, following some copies of 1633]

[30 sets] set 1669 free: 1650-69: free, 1633-39]

The Dampe.

When I am dead, and Doctors know not why, And my friends curiositie Will have me cut up to survay each part, When they shall finde your Picture in my heart, You thinke a sodaine dampe of love 5 Will through all their senses move, And worke on them as mee, and so preferre Your murder, to the name of Massacre.

Poore victories! But if you dare be brave, And pleasure in your conquest have, 10 First kill th'enormous Gyant, your Disdaine, And let th'enchantresse Honor, next be slaine, And like a Goth and Vandall rize, Deface Records, and Histories Of your owne arts and triumphs over men, 15 And without such advantage kill me then.

For I could muster up as well as you My Gyants, and my Witches too, Which are vast Constancy, and Secretnesse, But these I neyther looke for, nor professe; 20 Kill mee as Woman, let mee die As a meere man; doe you but try Your passive valor, and you shall finde than, In that you'have odds enough of any man.

[The Dampe. 1633-69, A18, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD]

[4 When] And 1669

my 1633-39: mine 1650-69]

[9 victories! 1650-69: victories; 1633-39]

[10 your] the 1669

conquest] conquests JC]

[13 and Vandall 1633-54, A18, B, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC: or Vandall 1669, Chambers]

[15 arts] acts 1669, JC]

[20 professe; Ed: professe, 1633-69]

[24 In that 1633, A18, N, TC: Naked 1635-69, B, D, H49, Lec, JC, O'F, P, S]

The Dissolution.

Shee'is dead; And all which die To their first Elements resolve; And wee were mutuall Elements to us, And made of one another. My body then doth hers involve, 5 And those things whereof I consist, hereby In me abundant grow, and burdenous, And nourish not, but smother. My fire of Passion, sighes of ayre, Water of teares, and earthly sad despaire, 10 Which my materialls bee, But neere worne out by loves securitie, Shee, to my losse, doth by her death repaire, And I might live long wretched so But that my fire doth with my fuell grow. 15 Now as those Active Kings Whose foraine conquest treasure brings, Receive more, and spend more, and soonest breake: This (which I am amaz'd that I can speake) This death, hath with my store 20 My use encreas'd. And so my soule more earnestly releas'd, Will outstrip hers; As bullets flowen before A latter bullet may o'rtake, the pouder being more.

[The Dissolution. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD]

[10 earthly 1633, A18, N, TC: earthy 1635-69]

[12 neere 1635-69 (But ... securitie bracketed 1669): ne'r 1633]

[24 latter] later 1669]

A Ieat Ring Sent.

Thou art not so black, as my heart, Nor halfe so brittle, as her heart, thou art; What would'st thou say? shall both our properties by thee bee spoke, Nothing more endlesse, nothing sooner broke?

Marriage rings are not of this stuffe; 5 Oh, why should ought lesse precious, or lesse tough Figure our loves? Except in thy name thou have bid it say, I'am cheap, and nought but fashion, fling me'away.

Yet stay with mee since thou art come, Circle this fingers top, which did'st her thombe. 10 Be justly proud, and gladly safe, that thou dost dwell with me, She that, Oh, broke her faith, would soon breake thee.

[A Ieat Ring sent. 1633-69, A18, N, O'F, TCC, TCD: To a Jeat Ring sent to me. W (among the Epigrams)]

[7 loves] love O'F say, Ed: say 1633-69]

Negative love.

I never stoop'd so low, as they Which on an eye, cheeke, lip, can prey, Seldome to them, which soare no higher Then vertue or the minde to'admire, For sense, and understanding may 5 Know, what gives fuell to their fire: My love, though silly, is more brave, For may I misse, when ere I crave, If I know yet, what I would have.

If that be simply perfectest 10 Which can by no way be exprest But Negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. If any who deciphers best, What we know not, our selves, can know, 15 Let him teach mee that nothing; This As yet my ease, and comfort is, Though I speed not, I cannot misse.

[Negative love. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: Negative Love: or the Nothing. O'F: The Nothing. A25, C]

[4 to'admire, 1633-39: to'admire; 1650-69]

[5 For] Both A25, C]

[11 way] means 1669, O'F]

[16 nothing; 1633: nothing. 1635-69]

The Prohibition.

Take heed of loving mee, At least remember, I forbade it thee; Not that I shall repaire my'unthrifty wast Of Breath and Blood, upon thy sighes, and teares, By being to thee then what to me thou wast; 5 But, so great Joy, our life at once outweares, Then, least thy love, by my death, frustrate bee, If thou love mee, take heed of loving mee.

Take heed of hating mee, Or too much triumph in the Victorie. 10 Not that I shall be mine owne officer, And hate with hate againe retaliate; But thou wilt lose the stile of conquerour, If I, thy conquest, perish by thy hate. Then, least my being nothing lessen thee, 15 If thou hate mee, take heed of hating mee.

Yet, love and hate mee too, So, these extreames shall neithers office doe; Love mee, that I may die the gentler way; Hate mee, because thy love is too great for mee; 20 Or let these two, themselves, not me decay; So shall I, live, thy Stage, not triumph bee; Lest thou thy love and hate and mee undoe, To let mee live, O love and hate mee too.

[The Prohibition. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: no title, B, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, O'F, S96: in B first two verses headed J. D., last verse T. R.: in A18, N, S96, TCC, TCD the last stanza is omitted]

[3 repaire my'unthrifty wast] repay in unthrifty a wast, 1669]

[5 By ... wast; Ed: By ... wast, 1635-69, B, Cy, H40, O'F, P, RP31, S96 (mee for thee B, P): By being to mee then that which thou wast; 1633: om. A18, D, H40, H49, N, TC]

[18 neithers Ed: neythers D, H40, H49, JC: neyther O'F, RP31: neyther their Cy: ne'r their 1633-69, B]

[20 thy 1635-69: my 1633 (thy in some copies)]

[22 I, live, Ed: I live 1633-69

Stage, 1635-69, B, Cy, H40, O'F: stay, 1633, JC: staye, D, H49

not] and H40]

[23-4

Lest thou thy love and hate and mee undoe To let mee live, Oh (of in some copies) love and hate mee too.

1633, B

Then lest thou thy love hate, and mee thou undoe O let me live, yet love and hate me too.

1635-54, Cy, D, H40, H49, JC, O'F (MSS. omitting first thou and some with Oh for yet)

Lest thou thy love, and hate, and me thou undo, O let me live, yet love and hate me too.

1669.]

The Expiration.

So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse, Which sucks two soules, and vapors Both away, Turne thou ghost that way, and let mee turne this, And let our selves benight our happiest day, We ask'd none leave to love; nor will we owe 5 Any, so cheape a death, as saying, Goe;

Goe; and if that word have not quite kil'd thee, Ease mee with death, by bidding mee goe too. Oh, if it have, let my word worke on mee, And a just office on a murderer doe. 10 Except it be too late, to kill me so, Being double dead, going, and bidding, goe.

[The Expiration. 1633-69: An Expiration. A18, N, TCC, TCD: Valediction. B: Valedictio. O'F: Valedictio Amoris. S: Valedico. P: no title, A25, C, JC]

[1 So, so,] So, go 1669]

[5 ask'd A18, A25, B, C JC, N, O'F, S96, TC: aske 1633-69, P, S]

[9 Oh, 1633, A18, A25, JC, N, TC: Or, 1635-69, B, O'F, S, S96]

The Computation.

For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday, I scarce beleev'd, thou could'st be gone away, For forty more, I fed on favours past, And forty'on hopes, that thou would'st, they might last. Teares drown'd one hundred, and sighes blew out two, 5 A thousand, I did neither thinke, nor doe, Or not divide, all being one thought of you; Or in a thousand more, forgot that too. Yet call not this long life; But thinke that I Am, by being dead, Immortall; Can ghosts die? 10

[The Computation. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: no title, B, O'F, S]

[1 For 1633-54: From 1669

the 1633, A18, N, TC: my 1635-69, B, O'F, S, Chambers]

[3 For] And 1669]

[6 One thousand I did think nothing nor doe, S, O'F (nothing think) doe, 1635-69: doe. 1633]

[7 divide, 1633, 1669: deem'd, 1635-54, O'F]

[8 a] one O'F, S: line dropped A18, N, TC

forgot] forget 1669, A18, N, O'F, S, TC]

The Paradox.

No Lover saith, I love, nor any other Can judge a perfect Lover; Hee thinkes that else none can, nor will agree That any loves but hee: I cannot say I lov'd, for who can say 5 Hee was kill'd yesterday? Love with excesse of heat, more yong then old, Death kills with too much cold; Wee dye but once, and who lov'd last did die, Hee that saith twice, doth lye: 10 For though hee seeme to move, and stirre a while, It doth the sense beguile. Such life is like the light which bideth yet When the lights life is set, Or like the heat, which fire in solid matter 15 Leaves behinde, two houres after. Once I lov'd and dy'd; and am now become Mine Epitaph and Tombe. Here dead men speake their last, and so do I; Love-slaine, loe, here I lye. 20

[The Paradox. 1635-69: no title, 1633, A18, H40, L74, N, O'F, S, S96 TCC, TCD]

[3 can, nor will agree A18, H40, N, O'F, S, TC: can or will agree, 1633-69]

[6 yesterday?] yesterday. 1633-39]

[14 lights life H40, L74, RP31, S: lifes light 1633-69, A18, N, O'F, S96, TC]

[15 which Ed: which, 1633-69]

[17 lov'd A18, H40, L74, N, O'F, S, TC: love 1633-69

dy'd] dyed 1633-69]

[20 lye. H40, RP31, S, S96: dye. 1633-69, A18, L74, N, O'F, TC]

Farewell to Love.

Whilst yet to prove, I thought there was some Deitie in love So did I reverence, and gave Worship; as Atheists at their dying houre Call, what they cannot name, an unknowne power, 5 As ignorantly did I crave: Thus when Things not yet knowne are coveted by men, Our desires give them fashion, and so As they waxe lesser, fall, as they sise, grow. 10

But, from late faire His hignesse sitting in a golden Chaire, Is not lesse cared for after three dayes By children, then the thing which lovers so Blindly admire, and with such worship wooe; 15 Being had, enjoying it decayes: And thence, What before pleas'd them all, takes but one sense, And that so lamely, as it leaves behinde A kinde of sorrowing dulnesse to the minde. 20

Ah cannot wee, As well as Cocks and Lyons jocund be, After such pleasures? Unlesse wise Nature decreed (since each such Act, they say, Diminisheth the length of life a day) 25 This, as shee would man should despise The sport; Because that other curse of being short, And onely for a minute made to be, (Eagers desire) to raise posterity. 30

Since so, my minde Shall not desire what no man else can finde, I'll no more dote and runne To pursue things which had indammag'd me. And when I come where moving beauties be, 35 As men doe when the summers Sunne Growes great, Though I admire their greatnesse, shun their heat; Each place can afford shadowes. If all faile, 'Tis but applying worme-seed to the Taile. 40

[Farewell to love. 1635-69 (following Soules joy: p. 429), O'F, S96]

[4 Worship; Ed: Worship, 1635-69]

[10 sise, 1635-69, O'F: rise S96]

[23 pleasures? Ed: pleasures, 1635-69]

[26 This, Ed: This; 1635-69]

[27 sport; Ed: sport, 1635-69]

[29 to be, Ed: to be 1635-69]

[30 (Eagers desire) Ed: Eager, desires 1635-69. See note]

[36 summers 1635-69: summer 1650-1669]

A Lecture upon the Shadow.

Stand still, and I will read to thee A Lecture, Love, in loves philosophy. These three houres that we have spent, Walking here, Two shadowes went Along with us, which we our selves produc'd; 5 But, now the Sunne is just above our head, We doe those shadowes tread; And to brave clearnesse all things are reduc'd. So whilst our infant loves did grow, Disguises did, and shadowes, flow, 10 From us, and our cares; but, now 'tis not so.

That love hath not attain'd the high'st degree, Which is still diligent lest others see.

Except our loves at this noone stay, We shall new shadowes make the other way. 15 As the first were made to blinde Others; these which come behinde Will worke upon our selves, and blind our eyes. If our loves faint, and westwardly decline; To me thou, falsly, thine, 20 And I to thee mine actions shall disguise. The morning shadowes weare away, But these grow longer all the day, But oh, loves day is short, if love decay.

Love is a growing, or full constant light; 25 And his first minute, after noone, is night.

[A Lecture &c. 1650-69: Lecture &c, A18, N, TCC, TCD: Song. 1635-39 (following Dear Love continue: p. 412): The Shadowe. O'F, P: Shadowe. S96: Loves Lecture. S: Loves Lecture upon the Shaddow. L74: Loves Philosophy. JC: no title, A25, B, C, D, H40, H49, Lec]

[4 Walking 1635-69, A18, A25, N, TC: In walking B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, S96

here, 1719: here; 1635-39: here: 1650-69]

[9 loves 1635-54, A18, L74, N, TC: love 1669, B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, S]

[12 high'st] least B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, S, S96]

[14 loves 1635-69, A18, A25, L74, N, TC: love B, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec, O'F, S, S96]

[19 If our loves faint 1635-69, A25, O'F (love), P, S96 (love), TC: If once love faint B, D, H40, H49, JC, S]

[26 first A18, A25, B, D, H40, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S96, TC: short 1635-69]

Sonnet. The Token.

Send me some token, that my hope may live, Or that my easelesse thoughts may sleep and rest; Send me some honey to make sweet my hive, That in my passion I may hope the best. I beg noe ribbond wrought with thine owne hands, 5 To knit our loves in the fantastick straine Of new-toucht youth; nor Ring to shew the stands Of our affection, that as that's round and plaine, So should our loves meet in simplicity; No, nor the Coralls which thy wrist infold, 10 Lac'd up together in congruity, To shew our thoughts should rest in the same hold; No, nor thy picture, though most gracious, And most desir'd, because best like the best; Nor witty Lines, which are most copious, 15 Within the Writings which thou hast addrest.

Send me nor this, nor that, t'increase my store, But swear thou thinkst I love thee, and no more.

[Sonnet. The Token. 1649-69 (following Vpon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities. at close of Epicedes): Ad Lesbiam. S96: no title, B, Cy: Sonnet. O'F: Elegie. P]

[1 token B, O'F, S96: Tokens 1650-69, P]

[4 passion S96: passions 1650-69, B, P]

[5 noe B, O'F, P, S96: nor 1650-69]

[9 simplicity; Ed: simplicity. 1650-69]

[11 in 1650-69: with B, O'F, S96]

[12 hold; Ed: hold. 1650-69]

[14 desir'd because ... best; B, O'F, S96: desired 'cause 'tis like thee best; 1650-54: desired 'cause 'tis like the best; 1669, Chambers]

[17 store, B, O'F, P, S96: score, 1650-69]

<Selfe Love.>

He that cannot chuse but love, And strives against it still, Never shall my fancy move; For he loves 'gaynst his will; Nor he which is all his own, 5 And can att pleasure chuse, When I am caught he can be gone, And when he list refuse. Nor he that loves none but faire, For such by all are sought; 10 Nor he that can for foul ones care, For his Judgement then is nought: Nor he that hath wit, for he Will make me his jest or slave; Nor a fool, for when others..., 15 He can neither.... Nor he that still his Mistresse payes, For she is thrall'd therefore: Nor he that payes not, for he sayes Within, shee's worth no more. 20 Is there then no kinde of men Whom I may freely prove? I will vent that humour then In mine own selfe love.

[<Selfe Love.> title given by Chambers: no title, 1650-69 (in appendix), JC, O'F]

[4 'gaynst JC, O'F: against 1650-69]

[6 And can ... chuse, JC: And cannot pleasure chuse, 1650-69: And can all pleasures chuse, O'F]

[11 foul ones] fouleness O'F]

[14 slave; 1719: slave 1650-69]

[15 fool, 1719: fool 1650-69]

[17 payes, JC, O'F: prays, 1650-69]

[19 payes not,] payes, not, 1650-69]

[20 Within, Ed: Within 1650-69]

The end of the Songs and Sonets.

* * * * *

EPIGRAMS.

Hero and Leander.

Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground, Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drownd.

[Hero and Leander. 1633-69, A18, HN, N, O'F, TCC, TCD, W]

Pyramus and Thisbe.

Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare Slaine, cruell friends, by parting have joyn'd here.

[Pyramus and Thisbe. 1633-69, A18, Cy, HN, N, O'F, TCC, TCD, W]

[1: feare] feare, Chambers, and Grolier (which drops all the other commas)]

Niobe.

By childrens births, and death, I am become So dry, that I am now mine owne sad tombe.

[Niobe. 1633-69, A18, HN, N, O'F, TCC, TCD, W]

[2: mine owne sad tombe. 1633-69: mine owne tombe. A18, N, TC: made mine owne tombe. HN, W]

A burnt ship.

Out of a fired ship, which, by no way But drowning, could be rescued from the flame, Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came Neere the foes ships, did by their shot decay; So all were lost, which in the ship were found, They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

[A burnt ship. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: Nave arsa. W: De Nave arsa. O'F. See note]

Fall of a wall.

Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall A too-bold Captaine perish'd by the fall, Whose brave misfortune, happiest men envi'd, That had a towne for tombe, his bones to hide.

[Fall of a wall. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: Caso d'un muro. O'F, W]

[4 towne 1633 and MSS.: towre 1635-69

bones 1633-69, A18, N, TC: corpse B, HN, O'F, W]

A lame begger.

I am unable, yonder begger cries, To stand, or move; if he say true, hee lies.

[A lame begger. 1633-69, A18, N, TC: A beggar. HN: no title, P: Zoppo. O'F, W]

Cales and Guyana.

If you from spoyle of th'old worlds farthest end To the new world your kindled valors bend, What brave examples then do prove it trew That one things end doth still beginne a new.

[Cales and Guyana. O'F: Calez &c. W: first printed in Gosse's Life and Letters of John Donne (1899)]

Sir Iohn Wingefield.

Beyond th'old Pillers many have travailed Towards the Suns cradle, and his throne, and bed: A fitter Piller our Earle did bestow In that late Island; for he well did know Farther then Wingefield no man dares to goe.

[Sir Iohn Wingefield. Ed: Il Cavalliere Gio: Wingef: W: On Cavallero Wingfield. O'F: first printed in Gosse's Life and Letters of John Donne (1899)]

[2 throne W: grave O'F]

[4 late W: Lady O'F]

A selfe accuser.

Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you: 'Tis strange that she should thus confesse it, though'it be true.

[A selfe accuser. 1633-69: A Mistrisse. HN: no title, B, O'F, W]

[2 that] om. HN, O'F, W

thus] om. HN, O'F, W

it] om. HN, O'F]

A licentious person.

Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call, For, as thy sinnes increase, thy haires doe fall.

[A licentious person. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: Whore. HN: no title, O'F, RP31, W]

[1 Thy] His and so throughout, RP31]

Antiquary.

If in his Studie he hath so much care To'hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.

[Antiquary. 1633-69, A18, N, P, TCC, TCD, W: Hammon. HN: no title, Bur, Cy, O'F: Epigram. S96]

[1 he hath so much 1633-69: he have such A18, N, TC: Hamon hath such B, Cy, HN (have), O'F, S96, W]

[2 strange om. B, HN, O'F all om. Bur]

Disinherited.

Thy father all from thee, by his last Will, Gave to the poore; Thou hast good title still.

[Disinherited. 1633-69: One disinherited. HN: no title, Cy, O'F, P, W]

[1 Will, Ed: Will 1633-69]

Phryne.

Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee, Onely in this, that you both painted be.

[Phryne. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: no title, O'F]

[1 like thee,] like to thee, 1650-69]

An obscure writer.

Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd To be understood; when will hee be beleev'd?

[An obscure writer. 1633-69, A18, N, TCC, TCD: no title, O'F]

[1 griev'd Ed: griev'd, 1633-69]

[2 To be Ed: To'be 1633-69

understood; Ed: understood, 1633-69

beleev'd?] beleev'd. 1633]

Klockius.

Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come In bawdie house, that hee dares not goe home.

[Klockius. HN: no title, 1633-69, Bur, O'F]

[1 Klockius] Rawlings Bur]

[2 In bawdie] In a bawdie HN]

Raderus.

Why this man gelded Martiall I muse, Except himselfe alone his tricks would use, As Katherine, for the Courts sake, put downe Stewes.

[Raderus. 1633-69, A18, N, TCD: Randerus. TCC: Martial: castrat_us_. W]

[1 Martiall I muse, 1633-54: Martiall, I amuse, 1669]

Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus.

Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury, Which could do all things, thy faith is; and I Like Esops selfe, which nothing; I confesse I should have had more faith, if thou hadst lesse; Thy credit lost thy credit: 'Tis sinne to doe, In this case, as thou wouldst be done unto, To beleeve all: Change thy name: thou art like Mercury in stealing, but lyest like a Greeke.

[Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus. 1633-69, A18, B, N, O'F, S, TCC, TCD, W]

[8 but lyest 1633-69: and lyest B, W]

Ralphius.

Compassion in the world againe is bred: Ralphius is sick, the broker keeps his bed.

[Ralphius. HN: no title, 1633-69, O'F]

The Lier.

Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers, And yet thou swear'st thou hast supp'd like a king: Like Nebuchadnezar perchance with grass and flowers, A sallet worse then Spanish dieting.

[The Lier. HN: no title, B, Bur, Cy, O'F, P, W]

[2 swear'st HN, W: say'st B, Cy, O'F]

[3 grass] hearbes Bur

supp'd like] supp'd and like HN]

ELEGIES.

ELEGIE I.

Iealosie.

Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die, And yet complain'st of his great jealousie; If swolne with poyson, hee lay in' his last bed, His body with a sere-barke covered, Drawing his breath, as thick and short, as can 5 The nimblest crocheting Musitian, Ready with loathsome vomiting to spue His Soule out of one hell, into a new, Made deafe with his poore kindreds howling cries, Begging with few feign'd teares, great legacies, 10 Thou would'st not weepe, but jolly,'and frolicke bee, As a slave, which to morrow should be free; Yet weep'st thou, when thou seest him hungerly Swallow his owne death, hearts-bane jealousie. O give him many thanks, he'is courteous, 15 That in suspecting kindly warneth us. Wee must not, as wee us'd, flout openly, In scoffing ridles, his deformitie; Nor at his boord together being fatt, With words, nor touch, scarce lookes adulterate. 20 Nor when he swolne, and pamper'd with great fare, Sits downe, and snorts, cag'd in his basket chaire, Must wee usurpe his owne bed any more, Nor kisse and play in his house, as before. Now I see many dangers; for that is 25 His realme, his castle, and his diocesse. But if, as envious men, which would revile Their Prince, or coyne his gold, themselves exile Into another countrie,'and doe it there, Wee play'in another house, what should we feare? 30 There we will scorne his houshold policies, His seely plots, and pensionary spies, As the inhabitants of Thames right side Do Londons Major; or Germans, the Popes pride.

[Elegie I. Iealosie. 1635-54: Elegie I. 1633 and 1669: no title or Elegie (numbered variously, according to scheme adopted) A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD, W]

[1 woman,] woman 1633]

[4 sere-barke 1633-54, B, Cy, H49, Lec, O'F, S, W: sere-cloth 1669, D, P: sore barke A18, A25, JC, N, TC]

[10 few] some few A18, N, TC]

[12 free; Ed: free, 1633-69: free. D]

[16 us. 1633-35: us, 1639-69]

[21 great 1633-54, A18, A25, D, H49, JC, Lec, N, S, TC, W: high 1669, B, O'F, P, S96: his Cy

fare, Ed: fare 1633-69]

[25 Now ... dangers;] Now do I see my danger; 1669

that all MSS.: it 1633-69]

[26 diocesse] Diocys D: Diocis W]

[27-29 (as envious ... do it there,) 1669]

[30 another] anothers 1669 We into some third place retired were B, O'F, P, S96]

[34 Major; 1650-54: Major, 1633-39: Mayor; 1669]

ELEGIE II.

The Anagram.

Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee Hath all things, whereby others beautious bee, For, though her eyes be small, her mouth is great, Though they be Ivory, yet her teeth be jeat, Though they be dimme, yet she is light enough, 5 And though her harsh haire fall, her skinne is rough; What though her cheeks be yellow, her haire's red, Give her thine, and she hath a maydenhead. These things are beauties elements, where these Meet in one, that one must, as perfect, please. 10 If red and white and each good quality Be in thy wench, ne'r aske where it doth lye. In buying things perfum'd, we aske; if there Be muske and amber in it, but not where. Though all her parts be not in th'usuall place, 15 She'hath yet an Anagram of a good face. If we might put the letters but one way, In the leane dearth of words, what could wee say? When by the Gamut some Musitions make A perfect song, others will undertake, 20 By the same Gamut chang'd, to equall it. Things simply good, can never be unfit. She's faire as any, if all be like her, And if none bee, then she is singular. All love is wonder; if wee justly doe 25 Account her wonderfull, why not lovely too? Love built on beauty, soone as beauty, dies, Chuse this face, chang'd by no deformities. Women are all like Angels; the faire be Like those which fell to worse; but such as shee, 30 Like to good Angels, nothing can impaire: 'Tis lesse griefe to be foule, then to have beene faire. For one nights revels, silke and gold we chuse, But, in long journeyes, cloth, and leather use. Beauty is barren oft; best husbands say, 35 There is best land, where there is foulest way. Oh what a soveraigne Plaister will shee bee, If thy past sinnes have taught thee jealousie! Here needs no spies, nor eunuches; her commit Safe to thy foes; yea, to a Marmosit. 40 When Belgiaes citties, the round countries drowne, That durty foulenesse guards, and armes the towne: So doth her face guard her; and so, for thee, Which, forc'd by businesse, absent oft must bee, Shee, whose face, like clouds, turnes the day to night, 45 Who, mightier then the sea, makes Moores seem white, Who, though seaven yeares, she in the Stews had laid, A Nunnery durst receive, and thinke a maid, And though in childbeds labour she did lie, Midwifes would sweare, 'twere but a tympanie, 50 Whom, if shee accuse her selfe, I credit lesse Then witches, which impossibles confesse, Whom Dildoes, Bedstaves, and her Velvet Glasse Would be as loath to touch as Joseph was: One like none, and lik'd of none, fittest were, 55 For, things in fashion every man will weare.

[Eleg. II. The Anagram. 1635-54: Elegie II. 1633, 1669: Elegie. (numbered variously) A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, M, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD, W]

[4 they] theirs 1669, S96

teeth be 1633-69, D, H49, JC, Lec: teeth are A18, A25, B, Cy, L74, M, N, O'F, S, TC, W]

[6 hair fall] hair's foul 1669

is rough 1633, 1669, A18, A25, B, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, M, N, P, S, TC, W: is tough 1635-54, O'F, Chambers]

[16 an Anagram] the Anagrams 1669]

[18 the 1633: that 1635-69

words 1633-69, A25, B, L74, M, N, O'F, P, S, TC: letters D, Cy, H49, W]

[22 unfit. D: unfit; 1633-69]

[28 deformities.] deformities; 1633]

[29 faire] fairer S, S96]

[35 say,] say, 1633]

[37 bee,] bee 1633]

[41-2 When Belgiaes ... towne: 1633-54: Like Belgia's cities when the Country is drown'd, That ... towns; 1669: Like Belgia's cities the round country drowns, That ... towns, Chambers: MSS. agree with 1633-54, but before countries read variously round (A18, A25, Cy, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, M, N, P, TC, W), lowe (B), foul (O'F, S, S96, which read country drowns ... towns)]

[49 childbeds 1633-54, Lec, W: childbirths 1669, A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H49, JC, L74, O'F, P, S, S96, TC]

[52 confesse, Ed: confesse. 1633-69]

[53-4 Whom ... Joseph was: 1669 and all MSS [or a Velvet 1669]: om. 1633-54]

ELEGIE III.

Change.

Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too, Have seal'd thy love which nothing should undoe, Yea though thou fall backe, that apostasie Confirme thy love; yet much, much I feare thee. Women are like the Arts, forc'd unto none, 5 Open to'all searchers, unpriz'd, if unknowne. If I have caught a bird, and let him flie, Another fouler using these meanes, as I, May catch the same bird; and, as these things bee, Women are made for men, not him, nor mee. 10 Foxes and goats; all beasts change when they please, Shall women, more hot, wily, wild then these, Be bound to one man, and did Nature then Idly make them apter to'endure then men? They'are our clogges, not their owne; if a man bee 15 Chain'd to a galley, yet the galley'is free; Who hath a plow-land, casts all his seed corne there, And yet allowes his ground more corne should beare; Though Danuby into the sea must flow, The sea receives the Rhene, Volga, and Po. 20 By nature, which gave it, this liberty Thou lov'st, but Oh! canst thou love it and mee? Likenesse glues love: and if that thou so doe, To make us like and love, must I change too? More then thy hate, I hate'it, rather let mee 25 Allow her change, then change as oft as shee, And soe not teach, but force my'opinion To love not any one, nor every one. To live in one land, is captivitie, To runne all countries, a wild roguery; 30 Waters stincke soone, if in one place they bide, And in the vast sea are more putrifi'd: But when they kisse one banke, and leaving this Never looke backe, but the next banke doe kisse, Then are they purest; Change'is the nursery 35 Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity.

[Eleg. III. Change. 1635-54: Elegie III. 1633, 1669: no title or Elegye (numbered variously) A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD, W]

[1 workes] word 1669]

[4 Confirme] Confirms 1669, A25, L74, P]

[5 Women] Women, 1633

forc'd unto none] forbid to none B]

[8 these 1633-54, D, H49, Lec: those 1669, A18, A25, B, Cy, JC, L74, N, P, TC, W]

[11 Foxes and goats; all beasts 1633-54: Foxes, goats and all beasts 1669]

[13 did] bid 1669]

[17 a plow-land] plow-lands P]

[18 corne] seed P]

[20 Rhene,] Rhine, 1669

Po. 1633: Po, 1635-69]

[21 liberty 1633: libertie. 1635-69]

[23 and ... doe,] then if so thou do, A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S96, TC, W]

[24 like i.e. alike as in A18, N, TC]

[31 bide] abide 1669]

[32 more putrifi'd 1633-39: more purifi'd 1650-54: worse purifi'd 1669: worse putrifi'd A18, A25, Cy, D, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC, W: worst putrifi'd B, H49, JC]

ELEGIE IV.

The Perfume.

Once, and but once found in thy company, All thy suppos'd escapes are laid on mee; And as a thiefe at barre, is question'd there By all the men, that have beene rob'd that yeare, So am I, (by this traiterous meanes surpriz'd) 5 By thy Hydroptique father catechiz'd. Though he had wont to search with glazed eyes, As though he came to kill a Cockatrice, Though hee hath oft sworne, that hee would remove Thy beauties beautie, and food of our love, 10 Hope of his goods, if I with thee were seene, Yet close and secret, as our soules, we'have beene. Though thy immortall mother which doth lye Still buried in her bed, yet will not dye, Takes this advantage to sleepe out day-light, 15 And watch thy entries, and returnes all night, And, when she takes thy hand, and would seeme kind, Doth search what rings, and armelets she can finde, And kissing notes the colour of thy face, And fearing least thou'art swolne, doth thee embrace; 20 To trie if thou long, doth name strange meates, And notes thy palenesse, blushing, sighs, and sweats; And politiquely will to thee confesse The sinnes of her owne youths ranke lustinesse; Yet love these Sorceries did remove, and move 25 Thee to gull thine owne mother for my love. Thy little brethren, which like Faiery Sprights Oft skipt into our chamber, those sweet nights, And kist, and ingled on thy fathers knee, Were brib'd next day, to tell what they did see: 30 The grim eight-foot-high iron-bound serving-man, That oft names God in oathes, and onely than, He that to barre the first gate, doth as wide As the great Rhodian Colossus stride, Which, if in hell no other paines there were, 35 Makes mee feare hell, because he must be there: Though by thy father he were hir'd to this, Could never witnesse any touch or kisse. But Oh, too common ill, I brought with mee That, which betray'd mee to my enemie: 40 A loud perfume, which at my entrance cryed Even at thy fathers nose, so were wee spied. When, like a tyran King, that in his bed Smelt gunpowder, the pale wretch shivered. Had it beene some bad smell, he would have thought 45 That his owne feet, or breath, that smell had wrought. But as wee in our Ile emprisoned, Where cattell onely,'and diverse dogs are bred, The pretious Vnicornes, strange monsters call, So thought he good, strange, that had none at all. 50 I taught my silkes, their whistling to forbeare, Even my opprest shoes, dumbe and speechlesse were, Onely, thou bitter sweet, whom I had laid Next mee, mee traiterously hast betraid, And unsuspected hast invisibly 55 At once fled unto him, and staid with mee. Base excrement of earth, which dost confound Sense, from distinguishing the sicke from sound; By thee the seely Amorous sucks his death By drawing in a leprous harlots breath; 60 By thee, the greatest staine to mans estate Falls on us, to be call'd effeminate; Though you be much lov'd in the Princes hall, There, things that seeme, exceed substantiall; Gods, when yee fum'd on altars, were pleas'd well 65 Because you'were burnt, not that they lik'd your smell; You'are loathsome all, being taken simply alone, Shall wee love ill things joyn'd, and hate each one? If you were good, your good doth soone decay; And you are rare, that takes the good away. 70 All my perfumes, I give most willingly To'embalme thy fathers corse; What? will hee die?

[Eleg. IV. The Perfume. 1635-54: Elegie IV. 1633, 1669: Elegie. (numbered variously) A18, A25, C, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC, TCD, W: Discovered by a Perfume. B: no title, Cy, HN]

[2 suppos'd escapes] supposed scapes 1669, P]

[4 By] For P]

[7-8 1635-69 and MSS. generally: om. 1633, D, H49, Lec]

[9 hath] have A18, A25, L74, N, P, TC, W]

[15 Takes] Take A18, A25, N, P, TC, W]

[21 To trie &c. 1633, D, H49, S (dost long): And to trie &c. 1635-69, A18, A25, L74, N, O'F, S96 (longest), TC

meates, 1635-69: meates. 1633]

[22 blushing 1633-54, A18, A25, JC, N, TC: blushes 1669: blushings B, D, H49, HN, L74, Lec, O'F, P, W]

[29 ingled] dandled 1669]

[30 see: 1635-69: see. 1633]

[31 grim eight-foot-high iron-bound Ed: grim-eight-foot-high-iron-bound 1633-69]

[37 to 1633-69: for MSS.]

[38 kisse.] kisse; 1633]

[40 my 1633: mine 1635-69]

[44 Smelt] Smells 1669 shivered. A18, D, H49, L74, N, TC, W: shivered; 1633-69: shivered, _Chambers and Grolier. See note_]

[46 that smell] the smell 1669]

[49 monsters Ed: monsters, 1633-69]

[50 good,] sweet 1669]

[53 bitter sweet, 1633-39: bitter-sweet, 1650-69]

[60 breath; 1650-69: breath, 1633-39]

[64 substantiall; Ed: substantiall. 1633-69]

[66 you'were] you'er 1669

smell; 1635-39: smell, 1633, 1669: smel 1650-54]

[71 All] And Chambers]