Part 5

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: