Part 9

[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_]

ELEGIE V.

_His Picture._

Here take my Picture; though I bid farewell, Thine, in my heart, where my soule dwels, shall dwell. 'Tis like me now, but I dead, 'twill be more When wee are shadowes both, then'twas before. When weather-beaten I come backe; my hand, 5 Perhaps with rude oares torne, or Sun beams tann'd, My face and brest of hairecloth, and my head With cares rash sodaine stormes, being o'rspread, My body'a sack of bones, broken within, And powders blew staines scatter'd on my skinne; 10 If rivall fooles taxe thee to'have lov'd a man, So foule, and course, as, Oh, I may seeme than, This shall say what I was: and thou shalt say, Doe his hurts reach mee? doth my worth decay? Or doe they reach his judging minde, that hee 15 Should now love lesse, what hee did love to see? That which in him was faire and delicate, Was but the milke, which in loves childish state Did nurse it: who now is growne strong enough To feed on that, which to disused tasts seemes tough. 20

[Eleg. V. His Picture. _1635-54:_ Elegie V. _1633_, _1669:_ Elegye. (_numbered variously_) _A18_, _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W:_ The Picture. _P:_ Travelling he leaves his Picture with his mystris. _B_]

[1 Picture; ... farewell, _Ed:_ Picture, ... farewell; _1633:_ _rest semicolon or colon after each_]

[8 With cares rash sodaine stormes, being o'rspread, _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ With cares rash, cruel, sudden storms o'erspread _P:_ With cares rash-sudden cruel-storms o'erprest _B:_ With cares rash sudden storms o'erpressed _S_, _S96:_ With cares rash sudden storms o'erspread _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ With cares rash sodaine horiness o'erspread _A25_, _JC_, _W:_ With cares harsh sodaine horinesse o'rspread, _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[16 now love lesse, _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ like and love less _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _W_]

[19 nurse] nourish _A18_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TC_

strong] tough _P_]

[20 disused _Ed:_ disus'd _1633-39_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ weake _1650-69_

tough.] rough. _P_]

ELEGIE VI.

Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve Whom honours smoakes at once fatten and sterve; Poorely enrich't with great mens words or lookes; Nor so write my name in thy loving bookes As those Idolatrous flatterers, which still 5 Their Princes stiles, with many Realmes fulfill Whence they no tribute have, and where no sway. Such services I offer as shall pay Themselves, I hate dead names: Oh then let mee Favorite in Ordinary, or no favorite bee. 10 When my Soule was in her owne body sheath'd, Nor yet by oathes betroth'd, nor kisses breath'd Into my Purgatory, faithlesse thee, Thy heart seem'd waxe, and steele thy constancie: So, carelesse flowers strow'd on the waters face, 15 The curled whirlepooles suck, smack, and embrace, Yet drowne them; so, the tapers beamie eye Amorously twinkling, beckens the giddie flie, Yet burnes his wings; and such the devill is, Scarce visiting them, who are intirely his. 20 When I behold a streame, which, from the spring, Doth with doubtfull melodious murmuring, Or in a speechlesse slumber, calmely ride Her wedded channels bosome, and then chide And bend her browes, and swell if any bough 25 Do but stoop downe, or kisse her upmost brow; Yet, if her often gnawing kisses winne The traiterous banke to gape, and let her in, She rusheth violently, and doth divorce Her from her native, and her long-kept course, 30 And rores, and braves it, and in gallant scorne, In flattering eddies promising retorne, She flouts the channell, who thenceforth is drie; Then say I; that is shee, and this am I. Yet let not thy deepe bitternesse beget 35 Carelesse despaire in mee, for that will whet My minde to scorne; and Oh, love dull'd with paine Was ne'r so wise, nor well arm'd as disdaine. Then with new eyes I shall survay thee,'and spie Death in thy cheekes, and darknesse in thine eye. 40 Though hope bred faith and love; thus taught, I shall As nations do from Rome, from thy love fall. My hate shall outgrow thine, and utterly I will renounce thy dalliance: and when I Am the Recusant, in that resolute state, 45 What hurts it mee to be'excommunicate?

[Eleg. VI. _1635-69:_ Elegie VII. _1633_ (Elegie VI. _being_ Sorrow who to this house _&c._ _See_ Epicedes _&c._, _p._ 287): Elegie. (_numbered variously_) _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W_]

[2 fatten] flatter _1669_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _L74_, _N_, _TC_]

[3 or] and _A18_, _Cy_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TC_]

[6 stiles, _1633-69_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ style _A25_, _O'F_, _S_, _Chambers and Grosart_

with _all MSS., Chambers and Grosart:_ which (_probably by confusion of_ w^{ch} _and_ w^{th}) _1633-69_

Realmes] names _1669_]

[7 where] bear _1669_]

[14 constancie: _1635-69:_ constancie. _1633_]

[24 then _1633_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _S_, _S96_, _W:_ there _1635-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _Cy_, _JC_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _TC_, _Chambers_]

[26 upmost _1633 and most MSS:_ utmost _1635-69_, _O'F_, _Chambers_ brow; _Ed:_ brow: _1633-39:_ brow. _1650-69_]

[28 banke _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _S_, _TC_, _W:_ banks _1633-69_, _Lec_, _O'F_]

[33 the _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ her _1635-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_

who _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _JC_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ which _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[37 Oh,] Ah, _1669_]

[39 thee,'] _om. 1669_]

[40 eye. _Ed:_ eye; _1633-54:_ eye: _1669:_ eye, _Chambers_]

[41 Though ... love; _1633:_ Though ... breed ... love: _1635-39:_ Though ... breed ... love _1650-69_ (Through ... _1669_)]

[42 fall. _1633-35:_ fall _1639-69_]

[43 outgrow] o'ergrow _Cy_, _P_]

ELEGIE VII.

Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistrie, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtile: Foole, thou didst not understand The mystique language of the eye nor hand: Nor couldst thou judge the difference of the aire 5 Of sighes, and say, this lies, this sounds despaire: Nor by the'eyes water call a maladie Desperately hot, or changing feaverously. I had not taught thee then, the Alphabet Of flowers, how they devisefully being set 10 And bound up, might with speechlesse secrecie Deliver arrands mutely, and mutually. Remember since all thy words us'd to bee To every suitor; _I_, _if my friends agree_; Since, household charmes, thy husbands name to teach, 15 Were all the love trickes, that thy wit could reach; And since, an houres discourse could scarce have made One answer in thee, and that ill arraid In broken proverbs, and torne sentences. Thou art not by so many duties his, 20 That from the worlds Common having sever'd thee, Inlaid thee, neither to be seene, nor see, As mine: who have with amorous delicacies Refin'd thee'into a blis-full Paradise. Thy graces and good words my creatures bee; 25 I planted knowledge and lifes tree in thee, Which Oh, shall strangers taste? Must I alas Frame and enamell Plate, and drinke in Glasse? Chafe waxe for others seales? breake a colts force And leave him then, beeing made a ready horse? 30

[Elegie VII. _1635-69:_ Elegie VIII. _1633:_ Elegye. (_numbered variously_) _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W_]

[2 Oh, ... prove] Oh, how ... prove _1669_]

[6 despaire: _1635-69:_ despaire. _1633_]

[7 call _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_ (_corrected from_ know), _P_, _TC_, _W:_ know _1635-69:_ cast _S_, _Chambers and Grosart_]

[10 they devisefully being set] their devise in being set _Cy_, _P_]

[12 arrands _1633:_ errands _1635-69:_ meet errands _B_]

[14 _agree_; _Ed:_ _agree_. _1633-69_]

[21-2 That ... nor see,] _in brackets 1669_]

[24 Paradise] paradise _1633_]

[25 words _1633-54_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _JC_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _W:_ works _1669_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _TC_

bee; _Ed:_ bee, _1633-69_]

[26 thee, _1633:_ thee: _1635-69_]

[28 Glasse? _Ed:_ glasse. _1633-69_]

ELEGIE VIII.

_The Comparison._

As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still, As that which from chaf'd muskats pores doth trill, As the Almighty Balme of th'early East, Such are the sweat drops of my Mistris breast, And on her her skin such lustre sets, 5 They seeme no sweat drops, but pearle coronets. Ranke sweaty froth thy Mistresse's brow defiles, Like spermatique issue of ripe menstruous boiles, Or like the skumme, which, by needs lawlesse law Enforc'd, Sanserra's starved men did draw 10 From parboild shooes, and bootes, and all the rest Which were with any soveraigne fatnes blest, And like vile lying stones in saffrond tinne, Or warts, or wheales, they hang upon her skinne. Round as the world's her head, on every side, 15 Like to the fatall Ball which fell on Ide, Or that whereof God had such jealousie, As, for the ravishing thereof we die. Thy _head_ is like a rough-hewne statue of jeat, Where marks for eyes, nose, mouth, are yet scarce set; 20 Like the first Chaos, or flat seeming face Of Cynthia, when th'earths shadowes her embrace. Like Proserpines white beauty-keeping chest, Or Joues best fortunes urne, is her faire brest. Thine's like worme eaten trunkes, cloth'd in seals skin, 25 Or grave, that's dust without, and stinke within. And like that slender stalke, at whose end stands The wood-bine quivering, are her armes and hands. Like rough bark'd elmboughes, or the russet skin Of men late scurg'd for madnes, or for sinne, 30 Like Sun-parch'd quarters on the citie gate, Such is thy tann'd skins lamentable state. And like a bunch of ragged carrets stand The short swolne fingers of thy gouty hand. Then like the Chymicks masculine equall fire, 35 Which in the Lymbecks warme wombe doth inspire Into th'earths worthlesse durt a soule of gold, Such cherishing heat her best lov'd part doth hold. Thine's like the dread mouth of a fired gunne, Or like hot liquid metalls newly runne 40 Into clay moulds, or like to that Ætna Where round about the grasse is burnt away. Are not your kisses then as filthy, and more, As a worme sucking an invenom'd sore? Doth not thy fearefull hand in feeling quake, 45 As one which gath'ring flowers, still feares a snake? Is not your last act harsh, and violent, As when a Plough a stony ground doth rent? So kisse good Turtles, so devoutly nice Are Priests in handling reverent sacrifice, 50 And such in searching wounds the Surgeon is As wee, when wee embrace, or touch, or kisse. Leave her, and I will leave comparing thus, She, and comparisons are odious.

[Eleg. VIII. The Comparison. _1635-54:_ Elegie VIII. _1669:_ Elegie. _1633:_ Elegie. (_numbered variously_) _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _Cy_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W_]

[2 muskats] muskets _1669_]

[4 breast, _1635-69:_ breast. _1633_]

[5 _Ed: necke 1633-69 and MSS. See note_]

[6 coronets. _1633-69_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _L74_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC:_ carcanets. _A25_, _C_, _JC_, _S_, _W:_ carolettes. _P_]

[8 boiles, _Ed:_ boiles. _1633-69:_ _in MSS. generally spelt as pronounced_, biles _or_ byles]

[13 vile lying stones _1635-54 and MSS.:_ vile stones lying _1633_, _1669_]

[14 they hang _A18_, _B_, _JC_, _L74_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_ (_altered to_ it), _S_, _TC_, _W:_ it hangs _1633-69_]

[19 a] _om._ _1635-39_]

[26 grave] grav'd _1669_

dust _1633-69_, _W:_ durt _A18_, _A25_, _JC_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TC_]

[28 hands. _W:_ hands, _1633-69_]

[34 thy gouty hand. _1635-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TC_, _W_ (hand; _1635-69_): her gouty hand; _1633_, _JC_, _S:_ thy mistress hand; _1669_]

[37 durt _1635-69:_ part _1633_, _from next line_]

[46 feares] fear'd _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_, _W_]

[48 when _1635-69 and MSS.:_ where _1633_]

[50 Are Priests ... sacrifice,] A Priest is in his handling Sacrifice, _1669_]

[51 such _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ nice _1633-69_]

ELEGIE IX.

_The Autumnall_