Part 4

[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.