XI.

_The good-night._

Now, as in Tullias tombe, one lampe burnt cleare, 215 Unchang'd for fifteene hundred yeare, May these love-lamps we here enshrine, In warmth, light, lasting, equall the divine. Fire ever doth aspire, And makes all like it selfe, turnes all to fire, 220 But ends in ashes, which these cannot doe, For none of these is fuell, but fire too. This is joyes bonfire, then, where loves strong Arts Make of so noble individuall parts One fire of foure inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts. 225

_Idios._

As I have brought this song, that I may doe A perfect sacrifice, I'll burne it too.

_Allophanes._

No S^{r}. This paper I have justly got, For, in burnt incense, the perfume is not His only that presents it, but of all; 230 What ever celebrates this Festivall Is common, since the joy thereof is so. Nor may your selfe be Priest: But let me goe, Backe to the Court, and I will lay'it upon Such Altars, as prize your devotion. 235

[ECCLOGUE. _&c._ _1633-69:_ _similarly_, _A18_, _A23_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[his absence thence. _1633, Lec:_ his Actions there. _1635-69_, _A18_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ his absence then. _D_, _S96_]

[2 countries] country _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[4 clime _1633-39:_ clime: _1650-69:_ clime. _D_]

[5 small _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_

smaller _1635-69_, _Chambers_]

[12 Have _1633:_ Having _1635-69_

murmure _A18_, _A23_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ murmures _1633-69_]

[22 were, _Ed:_ were; _1633-69_]

[29 kindle] kindles _1633_]

[34 plotts, _1635-69_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC:_ places, _1633_, _1669_, _Lec_]

[37 disgest, _1633-39:_ digest, _1650-69_]

[39 there. _D:_ there _1633-69_]

[40 where, _1633:_ where: _1635-69_, _owing to the dropping of stop in previous line_]

[42 State.] State, _1633_]

[54 one _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ own _1635-69_, _Lec_]

[55 I am ... Court. _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _S96_, _TC:_ And am I then from Court? _1635-69_

art. _1650-69:_ art, _1633-39_]

[57 East-Indian _A18_, _A23_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC:_ Indian _1633-69_]

[61 inward _A18_, _A23_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC:_ inner _1633-69_]

[75 present] represent _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[78 trust? _Ed:_ trust. _1633-39:_ trust, _1650-69_]

[84 pretend? _Ed:_ pretend. _1633-69_]

[85 more, _1633:_ more. _1635-69_]

[86 before. _1633-69:_ before, _Chambers_. _See note_]

[92 withdrew.] withdrew _1633_]

[96 say. _1635-69:_ say, _1633_]

[98 joy, ... some; _Ed:_ joy; ... some, _1633:_ joy; ... some. _1635-69_]

[EPITHALAMION. _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _S96:_ _om. 1633-69_. _See note_]

[107 expire,] expire _1633-39_]

[108 by _1633:_ from _1635-69_]

[121 man. _1669_, _D:_ man, _1633-39:_ man; _1650-54_]

[124 or] our _1669_]

[126 both th'enflaming eyes, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC:_ th'enflaming eye, _1633:_ the enflaming eye, _1635-69_]

[128 Singly, _A18_, _A23_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC:_ Single, _1633-69_, _Lec_]

[129 Yet let _A23_, _O'F:_ Let _1633-69_]

[141 should'st] should _1669_

it. _1635-69:_ it, _1633_]

[144 Thou, which _D:_ Thou, which, _1633:_ Thou which, _1635-69_]

[145 Art _A18_, _B_, _S96_, _TCC:_ Are _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ Wert _1635-69_, _O'F_

for] for, _1633_]

[Phaëton. _1635-69:_ Phaëton, _1633_]

[146 ease, ... eyes _1635-69:_ ease, ... eyes, _1633_]

[150 see. _1633-69:_ see; _Grolier_. _But see note_]

[157 stoope, ... us _1633-69:_ stoope, ... us, _1633_]

[167 more; _Ed:_ more, _1633:_ more. _1635-69_]

[170 or thought] Or thought _1633_]

[172 sing, _1633:_ sing: _1635-69_]

[178 you, yours, _A23_, _B_, _D_, _O'F_, _S96_

give, _1633:_ give. _1635-69_]

[179 Art. _Ed:_ Art, _1633-69_]

[194 wouldst] would _1669_]

[200 too; _Ed:_ too. _1635-69:_ to. _1633_]

[202 being gone; _Ed:_ being gone, _1633-39:_ being gone _1650-69_]

[207 such. _1635-69:_ such, _1633_]

[211 seene; _Ed:_ seene. _1633-69_]

[214 eye] hand _1650-69_]

[215 burnt] burn _1669_]

[218 divine. _1635-69:_ divine; _1633_]

[230 all; _1635-69:_ all, _1633_]

_Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne._

The Sun-beames in the East are spred, Leave, leave, faire Bride, your solitary bed, No more shall you returne to it alone, It nourseth sadnesse, and your bodies print, Like to a grave, the yielding downe doth dint; 5 You and your other you meet there anon; Put forth, put forth that warme balme-breathing thigh, Which when next time you in these sheets wil smother, There it must meet another, Which never was, but must be, oft, more nigh; 10 Come glad from thence, goe gladder then you came, _To day put on perfection, and a womans name_.

Daughters of London, you which bee Our Golden Mines, and furnish'd Treasurie, You which are Angels, yet still bring with you 15 Thousands of Angels on your mariage daies, Help with your presence and devise to praise These rites, which also unto you grow due; Conceitedly dresse her, and be assign'd, By you, fit place for every flower and jewell, 20 Make her for love fit fewell As gay as Flora, and as rich as Inde; So may shee faire, rich, glad, and in nothing lame, _To day put on perfection, and a womans name_. And you frolique Patricians, 25 Sonns of these Senators wealths deep oceans, Ye painted courtiers, barrels of others wits, Yee country men, who but your beasts love none, Yee of those fellowships whereof hee's one, Of study and play made strange Hermaphrodits, 30 Here shine; This Bridegroom to the Temple bring. Loe, in yon path which store of straw'd flowers graceth, The sober virgin paceth; Except my sight faile, 'tis no other thing; Weep not nor blush, here is no griefe nor shame, 35 _To day put on perfection, and a womans name_.

Thy two-leav'd gates faire Temple unfold, And these two in thy sacred bosome hold, Till, mystically joyn'd, but one they bee; Then may thy leane and hunger-starved wombe 40 Long time expect their bodies and their tombe, Long after their owne parents fatten thee. All elder claimes, and all cold barrennesse, All yeelding to new loves bee far for ever, Which might these two dissever, 45 All wayes all th'other may each one possesse; For, the best Bride, best worthy of praise and fame, _To day puts on perfection, and a womans name_.

Oh winter dayes bring much delight, Not for themselves, but for they soon bring night; 50 Other sweets wait thee then these diverse meats, Other disports then dancing jollities, Other love tricks then glancing with the eyes, But that the Sun still in our halfe Spheare sweates; Hee flies in winter, but he now stands still. 55 Yet shadowes turne; Noone point he hath attain'd, His steeds nill bee restrain'd, But gallop lively downe the Westerne hill; Thou shalt, when he hath runne the worlds half frame, _To night put on perfection, and a womans name_. 60

The amorous evening starre is rose, Why then should not our amorous starre inclose Her selfe in her wish'd bed? Release your strings Musicians, and dancers take some truce With these your pleasing labours, for great use 65 As much wearinesse as perfection brings; You, and not only you, but all toyl'd beasts Rest duly; at night all their toyles are dispensed; But in their beds commenced Are other labours, and more dainty feasts; 70 She goes a maid, who, least she turne the same, _To night puts on perfection, and a womans name_.

Thy virgins girdle now untie, And in thy nuptiall bed (loves altar) lye A pleasing sacrifice; now dispossesse 75 Thee of these chaines and robes which were put on T'adorne the day, not thee; for thou, alone, Like vertue'and truth, art best in nakednesse; This bed is onely to virginitie A grave, but, to a better state, a cradle; 80 Till now thou wast but able To be what now thou art; then that by thee No more be said, _I may bee_, but, _I am_, _To night put on perfection, and a womans name_. Even like a faithfull man content, 85 That this life for a better should be spent, So, shee a mothers rich stile doth preferre, And at the Bridegroomes wish'd approach doth lye, Like an appointed lambe, when tenderly The priest comes on his knees t'embowell her; 90 Now sleep or watch with more joy; and O light Of heaven, to morrow rise thou hot, and early; This Sun will love so dearely Her rest, that long, long we shall want her sight; Wonders are wrought, for shee which had no maime, 95 _To night puts on perfection, and a womans name_.

[Epithalamion _&c._ _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_ Epithalamion on a Citizen. _A34_, _B_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96:_ _do._ of the La: Eliz: _P:_ Epithalamion. _W_]

[4 bodies _1635-69 and MSS.:_ body _1633_]

[8 smother, _1650-69:_ smother _1633-39_]

[17 presence _Ed:_ presence, _1633-69_. _See note_]

[22 faire, rich, glad, and in _A18_, _N_, _TC_, _W:_ faire and rich, in _1633-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_]

[25 Patricians,] Patricians _1633_]

[26 Sonns of ... deep oceans, _Ed:_ Some of these Senators wealths deep oceans, _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ Sonnes of these Senatours, wealths deep oceans _W:_ Sonnes of those Senatours, wealths deepe oceans, _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _S96_ (_but_ Senators _O'F_, _S96_). _See note_]

[29 those fellowships] that Fellowship _S96_]

[31 bring. _W:_ bring _1633-39:_ bring, _1650-69_]

[32 straw'd] strow'd _1669_]

[42 thee. _1635-69:_ thee; _1633_]

[46 All wayes _W:_ Alwaies, _1633:_ Alwayes, _1635-69_]

[49 Oh winter dayes _A34_, _B_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _W:_ Winter dayes _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[53 eyes, _1635-69:_ eyes; _1633_]

[55 still. _W:_ still, _1633-69_]

[57 nill _W:_ will _1633-69 and rest of MSS.:_ _B inserts_ not. _See note_]

[59 runne the worlds halfe frame, _A34_, _B_, _S96_, _W:_ runne the Heavens halfe frame, _1635-69_, _O'F:_ come the worlds half frame, _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[60 _put_] _but_ _1633_]

[72 _puts_] _put_ _1669_]

[73 Thy virgins girdle _1633-69_, _W:_ The Virgin Girdle _B_, _O'F_, _S96:_ Thy Virgin girdle _P_]

[74 [loves alter] _1633-69_]

[76 were] wee _some copies of 1633_, _Grolier_]

[78 art] are _1669_]

[86 spent, _Ed:_ spent; _1633:_ spent: _1635-69_]

[95 maime, _1633_, _W:_ name, _1635-69_, _A18_, _A34_, _B_, _N_, _P_, _S96_, _TC_]

SATYRES.

_Satyre I._

Away thou fondling motley humorist, Leave mee, and in this standing woodden chest, Consorted with these few bookes, let me lye In prison, and here be coffin'd, when I dye; Here are Gods conduits, grave Divines; and here 5 Natures Secretary, the Philosopher; And jolly Statesmen, which teach how to tie The sinewes of a cities mistique bodie; Here gathering Chroniclers, and by them stand Giddie fantastique Poëts of each land. 10 Shall I leave all this constant company, And follow headlong, wild uncertaine thee? First sweare by thy best love in earnest (If thou which lov'st all, canst love any best) Thou wilt not leave mee in the middle street, 15 Though some more spruce companion thou dost meet, Not though a Captaine do come in thy way Bright parcell gilt, with forty dead mens pay, Not though a briske perfum'd piert Courtier Deigne with a nod, thy courtesie to answer. 20 Nor come a velvet Justice with a long Great traine of blew coats, twelve, or fourteen strong, Wilt thou grin or fawne on him, or prepare A speech to Court his beautious sonne and heire! For better or worse take mee, or leave mee: 25 To take, and leave mee is adultery. Oh monstrous, superstitious puritan, Of refin'd manners, yet ceremoniall man, That when thou meet'st one, with enquiring eyes Dost search, and like a needy broker prize 30 The silke, and gold he weares, and to that rate So high or low, dost raise thy formall hat: That wilt consort none, untill thou have knowne What lands hee hath in hope, or of his owne, As though all thy companions should make thee 35 Jointures, and marry thy deare company. Why should'st thou (that dost not onely approve, But in ranke itchie lust, desire, and love The nakednesse and barenesse to enjoy, Of thy plumpe muddy whore, or prostitute boy) 40 Hate vertue, though shee be naked, and bare? At birth, and death, our bodies naked are; And till our Soules be unapparrelled Of bodies, they from blisse are banished. Mans first blest state was naked, when by sinne 45 Hee lost that, yet hee was cloath'd but in beasts skin, And in this course attire, which I now weare, With God, and with the Muses I conferre. But since thou like a contrite penitent, Charitably warn'd of thy sinnes, dost repent 50 These vanities, and giddinesses, loe I shut my chamber doore, and come, lets goe. But sooner may a cheape whore, who hath beene Worne by as many severall men in sinne, As are black feathers, or musk-colour hose, 55 Name her childs right true father, 'mongst all those: Sooner may one guesse, who shall beare away The Infanta of London, Heire to an India; And sooner may a gulling weather Spie By drawing forth heavens Scheme tell certainly 60 What fashioned hats, or ruffes, or suits next yeare Our subtile-witted antique youths will weare; Then thou, when thou depart'st from mee, canst show Whither, why, when, or with whom thou wouldst go. But how shall I be pardon'd my offence 65 That thus have sinn'd against my conscience? Now we are in the street; He first of all Improvidently proud, creepes to the wall, And so imprisoned, and hem'd in by mee Sells for a little state his libertie; 70 Yet though he cannot skip forth now to greet Every fine silken painted foole we meet, He them to him with amorous smiles allures, And grins, smacks, shrugs, and such an itch endures, As prentises, or schoole-boyes which doe know 75 Of some gay sport abroad, yet dare not goe. And as fidlers stop lowest, at highest sound, So to the most brave, stoops hee nigh'st the ground. But to a grave man, he doth move no more Then the wise politique horse would heretofore, 80 Or thou O Elephant or Ape wilt doe, When any names the King of Spaine to you. Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, & cryes, Do you see Yonder well favoured youth? Which? Oh, 'tis hee That dances so divinely; Oh, said I, 85 Stand still, must you dance here for company? Hee droopt, wee went, till one (which did excell Th'Indians, in drinking his Tobacco well) Met us; they talk'd; I whispered, let'us goe, 'T may be you smell him not, truely I doe; 90 He heares not mee, but, on the other side A many-coloured Peacock having spide, Leaves him and mee; I for my lost sheep stay; He followes, overtakes, goes on the way, Saying, him whom I last left, all repute 95 For his device, in hansoming a sute, To judge of lace, pinke, panes, print, cut, and plight, Of all the Court, to have the best conceit; Our dull Comedians want him, let him goe; But Oh, God strengthen thee, why stoop'st thou so? 100 Why? he hath travayld; Long? No; but to me (Which understand none,) he doth seeme to be Perfect French, and Italian; I replyed, So is the Poxe; He answered not, but spy'd More men of fort, of parts, and qualities; 105 At last his Love he in a windowe spies, And like light dew exhal'd, he flings from mee Violently ravish'd to his lechery. Many were there, he could command no more; Hee quarrell'd fought, bled; and turn'd out of dore 110 Directly came to mee hanging the head, And constantly a while must keepe his bed.

[Satyre I. _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ Satyre the Second. _or_ Satyre 2. _A25_, _B_, _O'F:_ Satyre. _or_ A Satyre of Mr. John Donnes. _Cy_, _L74_, _S96:_ _no title_ (_but placed first_), _H51_, _N_, _TCD_]

[1 fondling _1633_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TCD:_ changeling _1635-69_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S96_, _W_]

[5 conduits, ... Divines; _1650-69_, _Q:_ conduits; ... Divines, _1633-39_]

[6 Is Natures Secretary, _1669_, _S96_

Philosopher; _Ed:_ Philosopher. _1633-39:_ Philosopher: _1659-69_]

[7 jolly _1633_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ wily _1635-69_, _O'F:_ with _P_]

[12 headlong, wild uncertaine thee? _1633:_ _om. comma 1635-69 and Grolier_]

[13 love in earnest _1633_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ love, here, in earnest _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[16 dost. meet,] doe meet. _H51_, _Q_, _W_]

[19 Not _1633-69_, _A25_, _Lec_, _P_, _Q:_ Nor _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W_

piert] neat _Q_]

[23 Wilt _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ Shalt _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _W_]

[24 heire! _Ed:_ heire? _1633-69_]

[25 or worse _1633-69_, _Cy_, _D_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _Q_, _TCD:_ and worse _A25_, _B_, _H49_, _H51_, _S96_, _W:_ or for worse _P:_ and for worse _JC_]

[27 Oh monstrous,] A (_i.e._ Ah) _or_ O Monster, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _W_]

[29 eyes _1635-69:_ eyes; _1633_]

[32 raise _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ vaile _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W_

hat:] hate: _1633_]

[33 consort none,] consort with none, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_

untill] till _1669_]

[37-40 _brackets_ _1650-69_, _Q:_ that ... boy _1633:_ that ... boy; _1635-39_]

[39 barenesse _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _W:_ barrennesse _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TCD_]

[40 Of] of _1633:_ or _1633_, _1669:_ _om. 1635-54_]

[41 bare? _1635-69:_ bare, _1633_]

[45 first blest _1633-69_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_, _W:_ first best _A25_, _B_, _H51_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_]

[46 yet _1633_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _Q_, _S_, _TCD:_ _om. 1635-69_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_]

[47 weare, _1650-69:_ weare _1633-39_]

[50 warn'd] warm'd _1633_]

[52 goe. _1635-69:_ goe, _1633_]

[54 Worne by] Worne out by _1650-69_]

[55 musk-colour _1633-35_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_, _W:_ musk-coloured _1639-69_, _A25_, _P_, _Q_]

[58 The Infanta ... India; _Ed:_ The Infanta ... India, _A25_, _O'F_, _Q:_ The infant ... India, _1633-54 and MSS. generally:_ The Infantry of London, hence to India: _1669_]

[60 Scheme _1635-69_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _Q:_ schemes _L74_, _S:_ sceames _N:_ Sceanes _1633_, _Cy_, _Lec_, _TCD:_ scene _P_]

[62 subtile-witted _D_, _H49:_ subtile wittied _1633-54_, _L74_, _N_, _TCD:_ supple-witted _A25_, _JC_ (_altered to_ subtle), _H51_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ giddy-headed _1669_

youths] youth _1669_]

[63 depart'st from mee] depart'st from hence _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _O'F_, _S_, _W:_ departest hence _A25_, _Q_, _S96_

canst _JC, Q:_ can _1633-69 and many MSS._]

[66 conscience?] conscience. _1633_]

[70 state] room _H51_

his _1635-69 and all MSS.:_ high _1633_, _Chambers_

libertie;] libertie, _1633_]

[73 them] then _1633_]

[78 stoops _1635-69_, _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _O'F_, _Q:_ stoopeth _B_, _P:_ stoopt _1633_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_

nigh'st the ground.] nighest ground. _D_, _H49_, _P_, _Q_, _W_]

[81-2 _om. 1633_]

[84 youth? _1635-69:_ youth; _1633_

Oh,] Yea, _A25_, _B_, _H51_, _JC_, _Q_, _W_]

[86 here] so _H51_]

[89 us; _Ed:_ us: _1635-69:_ us, _1633_

whispered, let'us goe, _Ed:_ whispered, let us goe, _1633-54:_ whisperd, let us goe, _1669:_ whispered (letts goe) _Q_. _See note_]

[90 'T may be] May be _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _W_]

[94 goes on the way,] goes, on the way _D_, _H49_, _Q_(in), _W_(in)]

[95 all repute _1635-69 and MSS. generally:_ s'all repute _1633_, _Lec_]

[97 print, cut, and plight (pleite, _1635-39:_ pleit, _1650-69_), _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ cut, print, or pleate (pleight _&c._), _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S96_, _W_]

[100 stoop'st _1633_, _1669_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD:_ stop'st. _1635-54_, _O'F_]

[101 Why? he hath travayld; Long? No; but to me _S96:_ Why: he hath travayld. Long? No: but to mee _W:_ Why, hee hath travayl'd. Long? no. But to mee _H49:_ Why he hath travayld; Longe? Noe: but to mee _JC:_ Why, he hath travailed (traveled _1635-39_) long? no, but to me _1633-39:_ Why hath he travelled long? no, but to me _1650-54_, _P:_ Why. He hath travelled long; no, but to me _1669_. _See note_]

[102 understand] understood _1669:_ _brackets from Q_. _See note_]

[105 and qualities;] of qualities; _Lec_, _P_, _Q_, _S96_]

[106 a] _om. 1669_]

[108 lechery. _1635-69 and MSS:_ liberty; _1633_]

[109 were there, _1633-39:_ there were, _1650-69_]

_Satyre II._

Sir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hate Perfectly all this towne, yet there's one state In all ill things so excellently best, That hate, toward them, breeds pitty towards the rest. Though Poëtry indeed be such a sinne 5 As I thinke that brings dearths, and Spaniards in, Though like the Pestilence and old fashion'd love, Ridlingly it catch men; and doth remove Never, till it be sterv'd out; yet their state Is poore, disarm'd, like Papists, not worth hate. 10 One, (like a wretch, which at Barre judg'd as dead, Yet prompts him which stands next, and cannot reade, And saves his life) gives ideot actors meanes (Starving himselfe) to live by his labor'd sceanes; As in some Organ, Puppits dance above 15 And bellows pant below, which them do move. One would move Love by rithmes; but witchcrafts charms Bring not now their old feares, nor their old harmes: Rammes, and slings now are seely battery, Pistolets are the best Artillerie. 20 And they who write to Lords, rewards to get, Are they not like singers at doores for meat? And they who write, because all write, have still That excuse for writing, and for writing ill; But hee is worst, who (beggarly) doth chaw 25 Others wits fruits, and in his ravenous maw Rankly digested, doth those things out-spue, As his owne things; and they are his owne, 'tis true, For if one eate my meate, though it be knowne The meate was mine, th'excrement is his owne: 30 But these do mee no harme, nor they which use To out-doe Dildoes, and out-usure Jewes; To out-drinke the sea, to out-sweare the Letanie; Who with sinnes all kindes as familiar bee As Confessors; and for whose sinfull sake, 35 Schoolemen new tenements in hell must make: Whose strange sinnes, Canonists could hardly tell In which Commandements large receit they dwell. But these punish themselves; the insolence Of Coscus onely breeds my just offence, 40 Whom time (which rots all, and makes botches poxe, And plodding on, must make a calfe an oxe) Hath made a Lawyer, which was (alas) of late But a scarce Poët; jollier of this state, Then are new benefic'd ministers, he throwes 45 Like nets, or lime-twigs, wheresoever he goes, His title of Barrister, on every wench, And wooes in language of the Pleas, and Bench: A motion, Lady; Speake Coscus; I have beene In love, ever since _tricesimo_ of the Queene, 50 Continuall claimes I have made, injunctions got To stay my rivals suit, that hee should not Proceed; spare mee; In Hillary terme I went, You said, If I return'd next size in Lent, I should be in remitter of your grace; 55 In th'interim my letters should take place Of affidavits: words, words, which would teare The tender labyrinth of a soft maids eare, More, more, then ten Sclavonians scolding, more Then when winds in our ruin'd Abbeyes rore. 60 When sicke with Poëtrie, and possest with muse Thou wast, and mad, I hop'd; but men which chuse Law practise for meere gaine, bold soule, repute Worse then imbrothel'd strumpets prostitute. Now like an owlelike watchman, hee must walke 65 His hand still at a bill, now he must talke Idly, like prisoners, which whole months will sweare That onely suretiship hath brought them there, And to every suitor lye in every thing, Like a Kings favourite, yea like a King; 70 Like a wedge in a blocke, wring to the barre, Bearing-like Asses; and more shamelesse farre Then carted whores, lye, to the grave Judge; for Bastardy abounds not in Kings titles, nor Symonie and Sodomy in Churchmens lives, 75 As these things do in him; by these he thrives. Shortly (as the sea) hee will compasse all our land; From Scots, to Wight; from Mount, to Dover strand. And spying heires melting with luxurie, Satan will not joy at their sinnes, as hee. 80 For as a thrifty wench scrapes kitching-stuffe, And barrelling the droppings, and the snuffe, Of wasting candles, which in thirty yeare (Relique-like kept) perchance buyes wedding geare; Peecemeale he gets lands, and spends as much time 85 Wringing each Acre, as men pulling prime. In parchments then, large as his fields, hee drawes Assurances, bigge, as gloss'd civill lawes, So huge, that men (in our times forwardnesse) Are Fathers of the Church for writing lesse. 90 These hee writes not; nor for these written payes, Therefore spares no length; as in those first dayes When Luther was profest, He did desire Short _Pater nosters_, saying as a Fryer Each day his beads, but having left those lawes, 95 Addes to Christs prayer, the Power and glory clause. But when he sells or changes land, he'impaires His writings, and (unwatch'd) leaves out, _ses heires_, As slily as any Commenter goes by Hard words, or sense; or in Divinity 100 As controverters, in vouch'd Texts, leave out Shrewd words, which might against them cleare the doubt. Where are those spred woods which cloth'd hertofore Those bought lands? not built, nor burnt within dore. Where's th'old landlords troops, and almes? In great hals 106 Carthusian fasts, and fulsome Bachanalls Equally I hate; meanes blesse; in rich mens homes I bid kill some beasts, but no Hecatombs, None starve, none surfet so; But (Oh) we allow, Good workes as good, but out of fashion now, 110 Like old rich wardrops; but my words none drawes Within the vast reach of th'huge statute lawes.

[Satyre II.: _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_ (after C. B. copy _in margin_), _JC_, _Lec_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ Satyre 3rd. _A25:_ Law Satyre. _P:_ Satire. _or no title_, _B_, _Cy_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TCD_]

[2-3

_there is one_ All this towne perfectly yet in every state _In all ill things so excellently best_ There are some found so villainously best, _H51_

All this towne perfectly yet everie state Hath in't one found so villainously best _S96_ ]

[4 toward] towards _1669_ and _MSS._

them,] that _A25_

towards] toward _1653-54_

rest.] rest; _1633_]

[6 As I thinke that _1633:_ As I thinke That _1635-54:_ As, I think, that _1669:_ As I'ame afraid brings _H51_ dearths, _A25_, _H51_, _HN_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_, _W:_ dearth, _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_]

[7 and] or _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _W_]

[8 Ridlingly it _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_ It riddlinglie _rest of MSS._]

[10 hate. _Ed:_ hate: _1633-69_]

[12 cannot _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ could not _rest of MSS._]

[14 sceanes; _Ed:_ sceanes. _1633-69 and Chambers_]

[15 Organ _1633-54_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ Organs _1669 and rest of MSS._]

[16 move. _1633-69:_ move, _Chambers_. _See note_]

[17 rithmes; _1633-69_, _Lec_, _Q_, _TCD:_ rimes; _A25_, _B_, _Cy_ (rime), _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _W_]

[18 harmes: _Ed:_ harmes. _1633-69_]

[19 Rammes, and slings] Rimes and songs _P_]

[22 singers at doores _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ Boyes singing at dore (_or_ dores) _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_ (_corrected from_ singers), _P_, _Q_ (at a dore), _S_, _W:_ singers at mens dores _A25_]

[24 excuse] scuse _MSS._]

[32 To out-doe Dildoes, _1635-69, B, H51, L74, Lec, N, P, Q, TCD:_ To out-doe ----; _1633:_ To out-swive dildoes _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _W_]

[33 Letanie; _Ed:_ Letanie, _1669 and all MSS.:_ ---- _1633:_ _simply omit_, _1635-39:_ gallant, he _1650-54_. _See note_]

[34 sinnes all kindes _1635-69_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _TCD_, _W:_ sinnes of all kindes _1633_, _Cy_ (kind), _Lec, P_]

[35-6 sake, Schoolemen _1669:_ sake Schoolemen, _1633-54_]

[40 just _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ great _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _W:_ harts _JC_]

[43 Lawyer, _Ed:_ Lawyer; _1633-69_

which was (alas) of late _Ed:_ which was alas of late _1633:_ which, (alas) of late _1635-69_]

[44 a scarce _A25_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _JC_ (_altered in margin_), _L74_, _Q_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ scarce a _1633-69_, _D_, _Lec_, _P_

Poet; _1635-69:_ Poët, _1633_

this _1633-69:_ that _A25_, _Cy_, _H51_, _Q:_ his _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S_]

[49 Lady; _Ed:_ Lady, _1633:_ Lady. _1635-39:_ Lady: _1650-69_

Coscus; _1633:_ Coscus. _1635-69_]

[53 Proceed; _1669:_ Proceed, _1633-54_]

[54 return'd] Returne _1633_ next size _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCD:_ this size _rest of MSS._]

[58 soft maids eare, _Ed:_ soft maids eare. _1633-54 and MSS.:_ Maids soft ear _1669_]

[59 scolding] scolding's _1669_]

[60 rore.] rore; _1633_]

[63 gaine, bold soule, repute _Ed:_ gaine; bold soule repute _1633-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _L74_, _P_, _W:_ gayne (bold soule) repute: _Q:_ gain, bold souls repute _1719 and Chambers:_ gayne, hold soule repute _A25_, _N_, _S_, _TCD, and Lowell's conjecture in Grolier_. _See note_]

[68 That] The _Chambers_]

[69-70 _These lines represented by dashes_, _1633_]

[70 yea _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ or _1635-69_]

[72 Bearing-like Asses; _Ed:_ Bearing like Asses, _1633-69 and MSS._]

[73 whores, _1633-69:_ whores; _Chambers and Grolier_. _See note_]

[74-5 _These lines represented by dashes_, _1633_]

[77 our land;] our land, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ the land; _1633-69_, _Q_]

[79 luxurie, _1633-69_, _A25_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_ (_corr. fr._ Gluttony), _P_, _Q_, _TCD:_ Gluttony _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _S_, _S96_, _W_]

[80 will] would _A25_, _Q_]

[84 Relique-like _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ Reliquely _1633-69_, _Cy_, _JC_, _Lec_, _P_

geare;] chear; _1669_ (_which brackets from_ 81 as _to end of_ 84), _Cy_]

[86 men] Maids _1669_]

[87 parchments _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _Q_, _W:_ parchment _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_

his] the _1669_]

[98 _ses 1633-69_, _B_, _L74_, _Lec_, _Q_, _and other MSS.:_ his _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _P_

heires,] heires _1633_]

[99 As] And _1669_

by] by, _1633_]

[102 doubt.] doubt: _1633_]

[105 Where's _&c._ _Ed:_ Where's th'old landlords troops, and almes, great hals? _1633_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_ (_but_ hals _MSS._): Where the old landlords troops, and almes? In hals _1635-69_, _L74_, _O'F:_ Where the old landlords troopes and almes? In great halls _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _HN_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W_ (_but the punctuation is very irregular, and some have_ 's _after_ Where). _See note_]

[107 Equally I hate;] Equallie hate, _Q_

hate; _Ed:_ hate, _1633:_ hate. _1635-69_

meanes bless; _1633_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD_, _W:_ Meane's blest. _1635-69_, _Cy_, _S_, _S96_ (_altered to_ is blest). _See note_]

[111 in wardrops; _1633:_ wardrobes. _1635-69_]

[112 statute lawes. _1633-54 and all MSS.:_ statutes jawes. _1669_, _Chambers_]

_Satyre III._

Kinde pitty chokes my spleene; brave scorn forbids Those teares to issue which swell my eye-lids; I must not laugh, nor weepe sinnes, and be wise, Can railing then cure these worne maladies? Is not our Mistresse faire Religion, 5 As worthy of all our Soules devotion, As vertue was to the first blinded age? Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage Lusts, as earths honour was to them? Alas, As wee do them in meanes, shall they surpasse 10 Us in the end, and shall thy fathers spirit Meete blinde Philosophers in heaven, whose merit Of strict life may be imputed faith, and heare Thee, whom hee taught so easie wayes and neare To follow, damn'd? O if thou dar'st, feare this; 15 This feare great courage, and high valour is. Dar'st thou ayd mutinous Dutch, and dar'st thou lay Thee in ships woodden Sepulchers, a prey To leaders rage, to stormes, to shot, to dearth? Dar'st thou dive seas, and dungeons of the earth? 20 Hast thou couragious fire to thaw the ice Of frozen North discoueries? and thrise Colder then Salamanders, like divine Children in th'oven, fires of Spaine, and the line, Whose countries limbecks to our bodies bee, 25 Canst thou for gaine beare? and must every hee Which cryes not, Goddesse, to thy Mistresse, draw, Or eate thy poysonous words? courage of straw! O desperate coward, wilt thou seeme bold, and To thy foes and his (who made thee to stand 30 Sentinell in his worlds garrison) thus yeeld, And for forbidden warres, leave th'appointed field? Know thy foes: The foule Devill (whom thou Strivest to please,) for hate, not love, would allow Thee faine, his whole Realme to be quit; and as 35 The worlds all parts wither away and passe, So the worlds selfe, thy other lov'd foe, is In her decrepit wayne, and thou loving this, Dost love a withered and worne strumpet; last, Flesh (it selfes death) and joyes which flesh can taste, 40 Thou loveft; and thy faire goodly soule, which doth Give this flesh power to taste joy, thou dost loath. Seeke true religion. O where? Mirreus Thinking her unhous'd here, and fled from us, Seekes her at Rome; there, because hee doth know 45 That shee was there a thousand yeares agoe, He loves her ragges so, as wee here obey The statecloth where the Prince sate yesterday. Crantz to such brave Loves will not be inthrall'd, But loves her onely, who at Geneva is call'd 50 Religion, plaine, simple, sullen, yong, Contemptuous, yet unhansome; As among Lecherous humors, there is one that judges No wenches wholsome, but course country drudges. Graius stayes still at home here, and because 55 Some Preachers, vile ambitious bauds, and lawes Still new like fashions, bid him thinke that shee Which dwels with us, is onely perfect, hee Imbraceth her, whom his Godfathers will Tender to him, being tender, as Wards still 60 Take such wives as their Guardians offer, or Pay valewes. Carelesse Phrygius doth abhorre All, because all cannot be good, as one Knowing some women whores, dares marry none. Graccus loves all as one, and thinkes that so 65 As women do in divers countries goe In divers habits, yet are still one kinde, So doth, so is Religion; and this blind- nesse too much light breeds; but unmoved thou Of force must one, and forc'd but one allow; 70 And the right; aske thy father which is shee, Let him aske his; though truth and falshood bee Neare twins, yet truth a little elder is; Be busie to seeke her, beleeve mee this, Hee's not of none, nor worst, that seekes the best. 75 To adore, or scorne an image, or protest, May all be bad; doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is. On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will 80 Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddennes resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night. To will, implyes delay, therefore now doe: 85 Hard deeds, the bodies paines; hard knowledge too The mindes indeavours reach, and mysteries Are like the Sunne, dazling, yet plaine to all eyes. Keepe the truth which thou hast found; men do not stand In so ill case here, that God hath with his hand 90 Sign'd Kings blanck-charters to kill whom they hate, Nor are they Vicars, but hangmen to Fate. Foole and wretch, wilt thou let thy Soule be tyed To mans lawes, by which she shall not be tryed At the last day? Oh, will it then boot thee 95 To say a Philip, or a Gregory, A Harry, or a Martin taught thee this? Is not this excuse for mere contraries, Equally strong? cannot both sides say so? That thou mayest rightly obey power, her bounds know; 100 Those past, her nature, and name is chang'd; to be Then humble to her is idolatrie. As streames are, Power is; those blest flowers that dwell At the rough streames calme head, thrive and do well, But having left their roots, and themselves given 105 To the streames tyrannous rage, alas, are driven Through mills, and rockes, and woods, and at last, almost Consum'd in going, in the sea are lost: So perish Soules, which more chuse mens unjust Power from God claym'd, then God himselfe to trust. 110

[Satyre III. _1633-69_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_ (_with title_ Of Religion.), _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ Satire the 4th. _A25_, _Cy:_ Satyre the Second. _P:_ A Satire. _L74:_ _no title_, _N_, _TCD_]

[1 chokes] checks _1635-54:_ cheeks _1669_

eye-lids; _Ed:_ eye-lids, _1633-39:_ eyelids. _1650-69_]

[3 and] but _1669_]

[7 to _1635-69_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _L74_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ in _1633_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_]

[9 honour was] honours were _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _S_]

[14 so easie wayes and neare _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ wayes easie and neere _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ wayes so easy and neere _O'F_]

[15 this;] this. _1633_]

[16 is.] is; _1633_]

[17 Dutch, and dar'st _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ Dutch? dar'st _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _W_]

[22-3 discoueries? ... Salamanders, _Ed:_ discoueries, ... Salamanders? _1633-69_]

[28 words?] words, _1633_]

[31 Sentinell _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ Souldier _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _Q_, _S_, _W_

his _1633-54:_ this _1669_, _A25_, _H51_, _P_, _Q_]

[32 forbidden _1633 and most MSS._ forbid _1635-69_, _H51_]

[33-4

Know thy foes; the foule Devell whom thou Strivest to please _&c._

_H51_, _Q and generally_ (_but with varying punctuation and sometimes_ foe), _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _W:_

Know thy foe, the soule devill h'is, whom thou Strivest to please: for hate, not love, would allow

_1633_, _L74_ (is), _Lec_, _N_ (his), _S_ (is), _TCD_ (his):

Know thy foes: The foule devill, he, whom thou Striv'st to please, for hate, not love, would allow _1635-69_ (he, ... please, _bracketed, 1669_) ]

[35 quit _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TCD:_ ridd _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _W_]

[40 (it selfes death) _1635-69_, _A25_, _B_, _H51_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD_, _W:_ (it selfe death) _1633_, _Cy_, _D_, _S_]

[42 loath.] loath; _1633_]

[44 here,] her, _1633_]

[45 Rome; _Ed:_ Rome, _1633-69_]

[47 He _1633_, _1669:_ And _1635-54_

her _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _W:_ the _1633-69_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TCD_]

[49 Crantz _W:_ Crants _1633-54_, _A25_, _H51_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ Grants _or_ Grauntes _1669_, _L74_, _O'F_, _P:_ Grant _Cy_, _D_, _H49:_ Crates _Q_]

[52 unhansome; _Ed:_ unhansome. _1633-69_]

[54 drudges.] drudges: _1633_]

[57 bid _or_ bidd _MSS.:_ bids _1633-69_]

[62 Prigas _H51:_ Phrygas _W:_ Phrigias _A25_]

[67 kinde, _Ed:_ kinde; _1633-69_]

[70 must ... but _in reverse order_ _Q_]

[73 is; _1633:_ is. _1635-69_]

[74 her, _1633:_ her; _1635-69_]

[77 wisely; _Ed:_ wisely, _1633-69_]

[78 stray; _1633-69_, _Cy_, _D_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TCD_, _W:_ staye; _A25_, _B_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _P_, _Q_]

[79 is. On] is: on _1633_

huge] high _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H51_, _O'F_, _Q_, _W_]

[80 Cragged, _1669_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ Cragg'd, _1633-54_, _Lec:_ Ragged _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S_, _W:_ Ruggued _H51_, _Q_]

[81 about must goe; _1633-54_, _O'F:_ about it goe; _1669:_ about goe, _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _W_]

[84 Soule _1633-69_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ minde _rest of MSS._

that night. _Ed:_ that night, _1633_, _1669:_ the night. _1635-54_]

[85 doe: _Ed:_ doe _1633_, _Chambers and Grolier:_ doe. _1635-69_, _D_, _W_. _See note_]

[86 too _H51_, _S_, _W:_ _spelt_ to _1633-69_, _many MSS.:_ to (_prep._) _Chambers_]

[88 eyes.] eyes; _1633_]

[90 In so ill (evil _H51_) case here, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _L74_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ here _om. 1633-69_, _N_, _TCD_]

[94 mans _1633-69_, _A25_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD:_ mens _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _S_, _W_

not _om. 1635-54_]

[95 Oh, will it then boot thee _Ed:_ Will ... boot thee _1633_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ Or ... boot thee _1635-69:_ Oh will it then serve thee _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _O'F_ (Or), _Q_, _S_, _W_]

[97 thee] me _1669_]

[99 strong? _Ed:_ strong _1633:_ strong; _1635-69_]

[101 is] are _1669_

chang'd;] chang'd _1633_

to be _Ed:_ to be, _1633-69_]

[102 idolatrie.] idolatrie; _1633_]

[103 is;] is, _1633_]

[104 do well _1633-69_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ prove well _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_, _L74_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _W_]

[106 alas,] alas _1633_]

[107 mills, and rockes, _1633_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ Mils, rocks, _1635-69_, _and rest of MSS._]

_Satyr IIII._

Well; I may now receive, and die; My sinne Indeed is great, but I have beene in A Purgatorie, such as fear'd hell is A recreation to, and scarse map of this. My minde, neither with prides itch, nor yet hath been 5 Poyson'd with love to see, or to bee seene, I had no suit there, nor new suite to shew, Yet went to Court; But as Glaze which did goe To'a Masse in jest, catch'd, was faine to disburse The hundred markes, which is the Statutes curse; 10 Before he scapt, So'it pleas'd my destinie (Guilty of my sin of going,) to thinke me As prone to all ill, and of good as forget- full, as proud, as lustfull, and as much in debt, As vaine, as witlesse, and as false as they 15 Which dwell at Court, for once going that way. Therefore I suffered this; Towards me did runne A thing more strange, then on Niles slime, the Sunne E'r bred; or all which into Noahs Arke came; A thing, which would have pos'd Adam to name; 20 Stranger then seaven Antiquaries studies, Then Africks Monsters, Guianaes rarities. Stranger then strangers; One, who for a Dane, In the Danes Massacre had sure beene slaine, If he had liv'd then; And without helpe dies, 25 When next the Prentises'gainst Strangers rise. One, whom the watch at noone lets scarce goe by, One, to whom, the examining Justice sure would cry, Sir, by your priesthood tell me what you are. His cloths were strange, though coarse; and black, though bare; 30 Sleevelesse his jerkin was, and it had beene Velvet, but'twas now (so much ground was seene) Become Tufftaffatie; and our children shall See it plaine Rashe awhile, then nought at all. This thing hath travail'd, and saith, speakes all tongues 35 And only knoweth what to all States belongs. Made of th'Accents, and best phrase of all these, He speakes no language; If strange meats displease, Art can deceive, or hunger force my tast, But Pedants motley tongue, souldiers bumbast, 40 Mountebankes drugtongue, nor the termes of law Are strong enough preparatives, to draw Me to beare this: yet I must be content With his tongue, in his tongue, call'd complement: In which he can win widdowes, and pay scores, 45 Make men speake treason, cosen subtlest whores, Out-flatter favorites, or outlie either Jovius, or Surius, or both together. He names mee, and comes to mee; I whisper, God! How have I sinn'd, that thy wraths furious rod, 50 This fellow chuseth me? He saith, Sir, I love your judgement; Whom doe you prefer, For the best linguist? And I seelily Said, that I thought Calepines Dictionarie; Nay, but of men, most sweet Sir; Beza then, 55 Some other Jesuites, and two reverend men Of our two Academies, I named; There He stopt mee, and said; Nay, your Apostles were Good pretty linguists, and so Panurge was; Yet a poore gentleman, all these may passe 60 By travaile. Then, as if he would have sold His tongue, he prais'd it, and such wonders told That I was faine to say, If you'had liv'd, Sir, Time enough to have beene Interpreter To Babells bricklayers, sure the Tower had stood. 65 He adds, If of court life you knew the good, You would leave lonenesse. I said, not alone My lonenesse is, but Spartanes fashion, To teach by painting drunkards, doth not last Now; Aretines pictures have made few chast; 70 No more can Princes courts, though there be few Better pictures of vice, teach me vertue; He, like to a high stretcht lute string squeakt, O Sir, 'Tis sweet to talke of Kings. At Westminster, Said I, The man that keepes the Abbey tombes, 75 And for his price doth with who ever comes, Of all our Harries, and our Edwards talke, From King to King and all their kin can walke: Your eares shall heare nought, but Kings; your eyes meet Kings only; The way to it, is Kingstreet. 80 He smack'd, and cry'd, He's base, Mechanique, coarse, So are all your Englishmen in their discourse. Are not your Frenchmen neate? Mine? as you see, I have but one Frenchman, looke, hee followes mee. Certes they are neatly cloth'd; I, of this minde am, 85 Your only wearing is your Grogaram. Not so Sir, I have more. Under this pitch He would not flie; I chaff'd him; But as Itch Scratch'd into smart, and as blunt iron ground Into an edge, hurts worse: So, I (foole) found, 90 Crossing hurt mee; To fit my sullennesse, He to another key, his stile doth addresse, And askes, what newes? I tell him of new playes. He takes my hand, and as a Still, which staies A Sembriefe, 'twixt each drop, he nigardly, 95 As loth to enrich mee, so tells many a lye. More then ten Hollensheads, or Halls, or Stowes, Of triviall houshold trash he knowes; He knowes When the Queene frown'd, or smil'd, and he knowes what A subtle States-man may gather of that; 100 He knowes who loves; whom; and who by poyson Hasts to an Offices reversion; He knowes who'hath sold his land, and now doth beg A licence, old iron, bootes, shooes, and egge- shels to transport; Shortly boyes shall not play 105 At span-counter, or blow-point, but they pay Toll to some Courtier; And wiser then all us, He knowes what Ladie is not painted; Thus He with home-meats tries me; I belch, spue, spit, Looke pale, and sickly, like a Patient; Yet 110 He thrusts on more; And as if he'd undertooke To say Gallo-Belgicus without booke Speakes of all States, and deeds, that have been since The Spaniards came, to the losse of Amyens. Like a bigge wife, at sight of loathed meat, 115 Readie to travaile: So I sigh, and sweat To heare this Makeron talke: In vaine; for yet, Either my humour, or his owne to fit, He like a priviledg'd spie, whom nothing can Discredit, Libells now'gainst each great man. 120 He names a price for every office paid; He saith, our warres thrive ill, because delai'd; That offices are entail'd, and that there are Perpetuities of them, lasting as farre As the last day; And that great officers, 125 Doe with the Pirates share, and Dunkirkers. Who wasts in meat, in clothes, in horse, he notes; Who loves whores, who boyes, and who goats. I more amas'd then Circes prisoners, when They felt themselves turne beasts, felt my selfe then 130 Becomming Traytor, and mee thought I saw One of our Giant Statutes ope his jaw To sucke me in; for hearing him, I found That as burnt venome Leachers do grow sound By giving others their soares, I might growe 135 Guilty, and he free: Therefore I did shew All signes of loathing; But since I am in, I must pay mine, and my forefathers sinne To the last farthing; Therefore to my power Toughly and stubbornly I beare this crosse; But the'houre 140 Of mercy now was come; He tries to bring Me to pay a fine to scape his torturing, And saies, Sir, can you spare me; I said, willingly; Nay, Sir, can you spare me a crowne? Thankfully I Gave it, as Ransome; But as fidlers, still, 145 Though they be paid to be gone, yet needs will Thrust one more jigge upon you: so did hee With his long complementall thankes vexe me. But he is gone, thankes to his needy want, And the prerogative of my Crowne: Scant 150 His thankes were ended, when I, (which did see All the court fill'd with more strange things then hee) Ran from thence with such or more hast, then one Who feares more actions, doth make from prison. At home in wholesome solitarinesse 155 My precious soule began, the wretchednesse Of suiters at court to mourne, and a trance Like his, who dreamt he saw hell, did advance It selfe on mee, Such men as he saw there, I saw at court, and worse, and more; Low feare 160 Becomes the guiltie, not the accuser; Then, Shall I, nones slave, of high borne, or rais'd men Feare frownes? And, my Mistresse Truth, betray thee To th'huffing braggart, puft Nobility? No, no, Thou which since yesterday hast beene 165 Almost about the whole world, hast thou seene, O Sunne, in all thy journey, Vanitie, Such as swells the bladder of our court? I Thinke he which made your waxen garden, and Transported it from Italy to stand 170 With us, at London, flouts our Presence, for Just such gay painted things, which no sappe, nor Tast have in them, ours are; And naturall Some of the stocks are, their fruits, bastard all. 'Tis ten a clock and past; All whom the Mues, 175 Baloune, Tennis, Dyet, or the stewes, Had all the morning held, now the second Time made ready, that day, in flocks, are found In the Presence, and I, (God pardon mee.) As fresh, and sweet their Apparrells be, as bee 180 The fields they sold to buy them; For a King Those hose are, cry the flatterers; And bring Them next weeke to the Theatre to sell; Wants reach all states; Me seemes they doe as well At stage, as court; All are players; who e'r lookes 185 (For themselves dare not goe) o'r Cheapside books, Shall finde their wardrops Inventory. Now, The Ladies come; As Pirats, which doe know That there came weak ships fraught with Cutchannel, The men board them; and praise, as they thinke, well, 190 Their beauties; they the mens wits; Both are bought. Why good wits ne'r weare scarlet gownes, I thought This cause, These men, mens wits for speeches buy, And women buy all reds which scarlets die. He call'd her beauty limetwigs, her haire net; 195 She feares her drugs ill laid, her haire loose set. Would not Heraclitus laugh to see Macrine, From hat to shooe, himselfe at doore refine, As if the Presence were a Moschite, and lift His skirts and hose, and call his clothes to shrift, 200 Making them confesse not only mortall Great staines and holes in them; but veniall Feathers and dust, wherewith they fornicate: And then by _Durers_ rules survay the state Of his each limbe, and with strings the odds trye 205 Of his neck to his legge, and wast to thighe. So in immaculate clothes, and Symetrie Perfect as circles, with such nicetie As a young Preacher at his first time goes To preach, he enters, and a Lady which owes 210 Him not so much as good will, he arrests, And unto her protests protests protests, So much as at Rome would serve to have throwne Ten Cardinalls into the Inquisition; And whisperd by Jesu, so often, that A 215 Pursevant would have ravish'd him away For saying of our Ladies psalter; But'tis fit That they each other plague, they merit it. But here comes Glorius that will plague them both, Who, in the other extreme, only doth 220 Call a rough carelessenesse, good fashion; Whose cloak his spurres teare; whom he spits on He cares not, His ill words doe no harme To him; he rusheth in, as if arme, arme, He meant to crie; And though his face be as ill 225 As theirs which in old hangings whip Christ, still He strives to looke worse, he keepes all in awe; Jeasts like a licenc'd foole, commands like law. Tyr'd, now I leave this place, and but pleas'd so As men which from gaoles to execution goe, 230 Goe through the great chamber (why is it hung With the seaven deadly sinnes?). Being among Those Askaparts, men big enough to throw Charing Crosse for a barre, men that doe know No token of worth, but Queenes man, and fine 235 Living, barrells of beefe, flaggons of wine; I shooke like a spyed Spie. Preachers which are Seas of Wit and Arts, you can, then dare, Drowne the sinnes of this place, for, for mee Which am but a scarce brooke, it enough shall bee 240 To wash the staines away; Although I yet With _Macchabees_ modestie, the knowne merit Of my worke lessen: yet some wise man shall, I hope, esteeme my writs Canonicall.

[Satyre IIII. _1633-69_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_ (anno 1594 _in margin_), _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ Mr. Dunns first Satire. _A25:_ Another Satire by the same. J: D: _Cy_ (_where it is the third_): Satyre. _S96:_ _no title_, _L74_, _N_, _TCD_ (_in L74 it is second, in N, TCD third in order_)]

[2 but I _1633_, _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ but yet I _1635-69_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _S96_]

[4 A recreacion to, and scarse _Q:_ A recreation, and scant _1633-69_, _and other MSS._]

[5 neither _1633-69:_ nor _some MSS. and Chambers, who wrongly attributes to 1635-39_]

[8 Glaze _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _Lec:_ Glare _1635-69, and rest of MSS._]

[9 To'a mass _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ To Masse _1633-69_, _Cy_, _Q_, _Lec_]

[10-11 curse; ... scapt, _1633-39:_ curse, ... scapt, _1650-69_]

[12 of going, _1633_, _1669_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TCD_, _W:_ in going, _1635-54_, _A25_, _O'F_]

[14 as lustfull,] as _om. 1635-69 and many MSS._]

[16 at Court, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ in Court, _1633-69_, _Lec_]

[18 Niles] Nilus _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_]

[19 bred; _W:_ bred, _1633-69_

came; _W:_ came: _1633-69_]

[20 name; _W:_ name, _1633:_ name: _1635-69_]

[22 rarities. _W:_ rarities, _1633-69_]

[23 then strangers; _1633-69_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _HN_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD_, _W:_ then strangest. _D_, _H49_, _JC_ (_corr. from_ strangers), _S_]

[32 ground] the ground _HN_]

[35 This _1633:_ The _1635-69_ saith, _1633-54_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_ (sayeth), _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_ (saith he), _TCD_, _W:_ faith, _1669_, _Chambers and Grolier, without note_]

[36 belongs.] belongs, _1633_]

[37 th'Accents,] the antient, _HN:_ the ancients, (_prob. for_ ancientest, _but corrected to_ accents,) _L74_]

[38 no language; _A25_, _Q:_ one language; _1633-69_, _and MSS. generally_]

[43 beare] hear _1669_

this: _Q:_ this, _1633-69_]

[44 With his tongue, _1669_, _Q:_ With his tongue: _1633-54_]

[47 or] and _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _W_]

[48 Surius,] Sleydon _O'F_ (_corrected to_ Surius), _Q:_ Snodons, _A25_. _See note_]

[51 chuseth] chaseth _P_, _Q_]

[55 Sir; _Ed:_ Sir. _1633-69_]

[56 Some other _HN:_ Some _1633-69 and most MSS.:_ two other _S_]

[57 There _1633_ (T _faintly printed_): here _1635-69_]

[59 Good pretty _1633-69:_ Pretty good _Cy_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_

Panurge _1635-54:_ Panirge _1633:_ Panurgus _1669_ (_omitting_ and), _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_]

[60 gentleman, all _Ed:_ gentleman; All _1633-69_]

[60-1 passe By travaile. _1633-54:_ pass. But travaile _1669_]

[62 prais'd _Ed:_ praised _1633-69_

wonders _1635-69 and most MSS.:_ words _1633_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_]

[67 lonenesse. _1635-69_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _W:_ lonelinesse; _1633_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_]

[68 lonenesse _1635-69_, _A25_, _&c.:_ lonelinesse _1633_, _L74_, _&c._

fashion, _1633:_ fashion. _1635-69_]

[69 last _1633_, _1669_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _TCD_, _W:_ taste _1635-54_, _O'F_, _Q_ (tast), _S_, _S96_]

[80 Kingstreet. _1633:_ Kingsstreet. _1635-39:_ Kings street. _1650-69_]

[83 Mine? _1635-54 and MSS.:_ Fine, _1633:_ Mine, _1669_]

[84 Frenchman, _Ed:_ frenchman, _1633 and most MSS.:_ Sir, _1635-69_, _Q:_ here, _Cy_]

[85-6 cloth'd; I, ... Grogaram. _Ed:_ cloth'd. I, ... Grogaram; _1633:_ cloth'd. I, ... Grogaram. _1635-69_]

[86 your Grogaram _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ this Grogaram _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ the Grogaram _P_]

[89 ground _Ed:_ grown'd _1633:_ grownd _1635-69_]

[90 (foole)] _no bracket_ _1633_]

[92 addresse, _N_, _TCD:_ addresse. _1633:_ dresse. _1635-39_, _D_, _W:_ dresse; _1650-69_]

[96 lye. _D_, _H49_, _W:_ lie, _1633-69_]

[98 trash he knowes; He knowes _D_, _H49_, _W:_ trash; He knowes; He knowes _1633:_ trash. He knowes; He knowes _1635-39:_ trash, He knowes; He knowes _1650-69_]

[101 loves; whom; _1633:_ loves; whom, _1635-54:_ loves, whom; _1669:_ loves whom; _Chambers and Grolier_]

[104 and _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _S96_, _TCD:_ or _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _W_]

[106 At blow-point or span-counter _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _W_ they pay _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W:_ shall pay _1633-69_, _JC_]

[108 what _1633-69_, _Cy_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ which _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W_]

[109 tries _1633_, _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _L74_, _N_, _Q_, _TCD_, _W:_ cloyes _1635-69_, _O'F_, _S:_ tyres _Cy_, _JC_, _P_]

[111 thrusts on more; _1633-69_, _O'F:_ thrusts more; _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _P_, _Q_, _W:_ thrusts me more; _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TCD:_ thrusts me _P_

as if he'd undertooke _most MSS.:_ as if he'undertooke _1633_, _N_, _TCD:_ as he'had undertooke _1635-69_]

[113 have] hath _1633_, _Lec_]

[117 this] his _B_, _L74_, _O'F_, _TCD_, _W_

talke: In vaine; for _D_, _W_, _and other MSS.:_ talke in vaine: For _1633_, _Q:_ talke, in vaine: For _1635-69_]

[123 entail'd, and that there _1633:_ entailed, and there _1635-54:_ intailed and that there _1669_]

[128 whores, _Ed:_ Whores, _1633-69_]

[132 Statutes] Statues _1639_]

[133 in; for hearing him, _1669_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ in, for hearing him, _1650-54:_ in, for hearing him. _1633-39_, _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _O'F_, _S_, _W_]

[134-6 (That ... free:) _represented by dashes in 1633_]

[134 venome _1635-54:_ venomous _1669:_ venomd _many MSS._]

[141 mercy now _1633-69:_ my redemption _Cy_, _P:_ redemption now _Q_, _S_]

[145 Gave] Give _Cy_, _D_, _H49_]

[146 Though] Thou _1635_]

[152 more ... then] such ... as _1669_]

[154 make _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S96_, _W:_ haste _1633-69_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TCD_ (_from previous line_): _om. A25_

prison.] prison; _1633_]

[156 precious _1633_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ piteous _1635-69 and rest of MSS._]

[159 on _1633_, _Cy_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TCD:_ o'r _1635-69_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Q_, _S96_, _W_]

[162 nones] none _1669_]

[164 th'huffing braggart, _1669_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _W_ (_but no commas in MSS._): huffing, braggart, _1633-54_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_ th'huffing, braggart, _1719_

Nobility?] Nobility. _1633_]

[169 your _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ yon _A25_, _B_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _W:_ the _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _P_, _S_, _S96_]

[170 Transported _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD:_ Transplanted _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _W_

to stand] to Strand _L74_ (stand _being struck through_), _S_]

[171 our Presence, _1633_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ our Court here, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ our Courtiers, _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[173 are;] are, _1633_]

[178 are found _1633_, _1669:_ were found _1635-54_]

[179 I, (God pardon mee.) _1633:_ I. (God pardon mee.) _1635:_ I. (God pardon me) _1639-69:_ aye--God pardon me-- _Chambers_]

[180 their Apparrells] th'apparells _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _W_]

[182 cry the flatterers; _1633:_ cry his flatterers; _1635-54_, _P:_ cryes his flatterers; _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ cryes the flatterer; _1669_, _L74_ (flatterers _is changed to_ flatterer), _Lec_ (flatterers)]

[185 players;] players, _1633_]

[187 wardrops _1633:_ wardrobes _1635-69_

Inventory.] Inventory; _1633_]

[188 doe know _1633-69_, _Lec_, _N_, _Q_, _TCD:_ did know _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _W_]

[190 (as they think) _1669_]

[194 scarlets] scarlett _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _W_]

[195 call'd] calls _A25_, _HN_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_]

[195-6 net; ... set.] net.... set; _1633_]

[198 hat] hat, _1633-54_]

[199 As if the Presence ... Moschite, _1633-69_, _Lec_ (_colon 1635-69_): As the Presence ... Moschite, (_or_ Meschite,) _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _W:_ As the Queenes Presence ... Meschite, _D_, _H49:_ As if the Queenes Presence ... meschite, _S_]

[203 fornicate:] fornicate. _1633_]

[204 survay _1633-69_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD:_ survayes _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _S_, _W_]

[205 trye _Ed:_ tryes _1633-69 and MSS._]

[206 to thighe. _Ed:_ to thighes. _1633-69 and MSS.:_ to his thighes. _Q_]

[211 he arrests, _1633-69_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ straight arrests, _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _W_]

[215 whisperd _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _N_, _TCD_, _W:_ whispers _1635-69_]

[216 Topcliffe would have ravish'd him quite away _JC, O'F, Q_ (_JC and O'F alter to_ Pursevant)]

[217 of _om. Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W_]

[222 whom _1633_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W_: or whom _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[223 He cares not, His _1633 and MSS._: He cares not hee. His _1635-69_]

[224 rusheth] rushes _1639-69_]

[226 still _1635-69_, _Q_, _and other MSS._: yet still _1633_, _L74_, _N_, _TCD_]

[229 I leave] Ile leave _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _W_]

[230 men which from _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_, _W_: men from _1633-69_]

[232 sinnes?). Being _Ed_: sinnes) being _1633-39_: sinnes?) being _1650-69_: _all the editions and some MSS. close the sentence at_ 236 wine.]

[236 Living barrells of beefe, flaggons of wine. _1633-54_: Living, barrels of beef, and flaggons of wine. _1669_]

[237 Spie.] Spie; _1633_]

[238 Seas of Wit and Arts, _B_, _Cy_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD_: Seas of Wits and Arts, _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _S_: Seas of witt and art, _A25_, _HN_: Great seas of witt and art, _O'F_, _S96_: Seas of all Wits and Arts, _conj. Lowell_]

[239 Drowne] To drowne _O'F_, _S96_]

[240 Which] Who _MSS._ am but a scarce brooke, _1633_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_: am but a scant brooke, _1635-69_: am a scant brooke, _B_, _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _W_: am a shallow brooke, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _S_, _S96_]

[241 the _1633-69:_ their _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _HN_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ these _L74_, _N_, _TCD_

Although] though _1633 and MSS._]

[242 the knowne merit _1633-69_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _Q_, _TCD:_ known _om. B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _L74_, _P_, _S_, _W_]

[243 wise man] wise men _1650-69_, _B_, _HN_, _L74_, _P_, _TCD_, _W_]

_Satyre V._

Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they Whom any pitty warmes; He which did lay Rules to make Courtiers, (hee being understood May make good Courtiers, but who Courtiers good?) Frees from the sting of jests all who in extreme 5 Are wreched or wicked: of these two a theame Charity and liberty give me. What is hee Who Officers rage, and Suiters misery Can write, and jest? If all things be in all, As I thinke, since all, which were, are, and shall 10 Bee, be made of the same elements: Each thing, each thing implyes or represents. Then man is a world; in which, Officers Are the vast ravishing seas; and Suiters, Springs; now full, now shallow, now drye; which, to 15 That which drownes them, run: These selfe reasons do Prove the world a man, in which, officers Are the devouring stomacke, and Suiters The excrements, which they voyd. All men are dust; How much worse are Suiters, who to mens lust 20 Are made preyes? O worse then dust, or wormes meat, For they do eate you now, whose selves wormes shall eate. They are the mills which grinde you, yet you are The winde which drives them; and a wastfull warre Is fought against you, and you fight it; they 25 Adulterate lawe, and you prepare their way Like wittals; th'issue your owne ruine is. Greatest and fairest Empresse, know you this? Alas, no more then Thames calme head doth know Whose meades her armes drowne, or whose corne o'rflow: 30 You Sir, whose righteousnes she loves, whom I By having leave to serve, am most richly For service paid, authoriz'd, now beginne To know and weed out this enormous sinne. O Age of rusty iron! Some better wit 35 Call it some worse name, if ought equall it; The iron Age _that_ was, when justice was sold; now Injustice is sold dearer farre. Allow All demands, fees, and duties, gamsters, anon The mony which you sweat, and sweare for, is gon 40 Into other hands: So controverted lands Scape, like Angelica, the strivers hands. If Law be in the Judges heart, and hee Have no heart to resist letter, or fee, Where wilt thou appeale? powre of the Courts below 45 Flow from the first maine head, and these can throw Thee, if they sucke thee in, to misery, To fetters, halters; But if the injury Steele thee to dare complaine, Alas, thou go'st Against the stream, when upwards: when thou art most 50 Heavy and most faint; and in these labours they, 'Gainst whom thou should'st complaine, will in the way Become great seas, o'r which, when thou shalt bee Forc'd to make golden bridges, thou shalt see That all thy gold was drown'd in them before; 55 All things follow their like, only who have may have more. Judges are Gods; he who made and said them so, Meant not that men should be forc'd to them to goe, By meanes of Angels; When supplications We send to God, to Dominations, 60 Powers, Cherubins, and all heavens Courts, if wee Should pay fees as here, Daily bread would be Scarce to Kings; so 'tis. Would it not anger A Stoicke, a coward, yea a Martyr, To see a Pursivant come in, and call 65 All his cloathes, Copes; Bookes, Primers; and all His Plate, Challices; and mistake them away, And aske a fee for comming? Oh, ne'r may Faire lawes white reverend name be strumpeted, To warrant thefts: she is established 70 Recorder to Destiny, on earth, and shee Speakes Fates words, and but tells us who must bee Rich, who poore, who in chaires, who in jayles: Shee is all faire, but yet hath foule long nailes, With which she scracheth Suiters; In bodies 75 Of men, so in law, nailes are th'extremities, So Officers stretch to more then Law can doe, As our nailes reach what no else part comes to. Why barest thou to yon Officer? Foole, Hath hee Got those goods, for which erst men bar'd to thee? 80 Foole, twice, thrice, thou hast bought wrong, and now hungerly Beg'st right; But that dole comes not till these dye. Thou had'st much, and lawes Urim and Thummim trie Thou wouldst for more; and for all hast paper Enough to cloath all the great Carricks Pepper. 85 Sell that, and by that thou much more shalt leese, Then Haman, when he sold his Antiquities. O wretch that thy fortunes should moralize Esops fables, and make tales, prophesies. Thou'art the swimming dog whom shadows cosened, 90 And div'st, neare drowning, for what's vanished.

[Satyre V. _1633-69_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ Satyre the third. _P:_ _no title_, _L74_, _N_, _TCD_ (_in L74 it is third, in N, TCD fourth in order_)]

[1 shalt] shal _1669_]

[9 and] in _1669_]

[12 implyes _1635-69:_ _spelt_ employes _1633 and some MSS._

represents. _1635-69:_ represents, _1633_]

[13 Officers] Officers, _1633-69_]

[14 ravishing _1633-69:_ ravenous _Q:_ ravening _P_, _S_]

[19 voyd. All _1669:_ voyd; all _1633-54_

dust; _W:_ dust, _1633-69_]

[21 preyes? _1669:_ preyes. _1633-54_]

[26 their _1633_, _D_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TCD_, _W:_ the _1635-69_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_]

[27 wittals; _W:_ wittals, _1633-69_

is.] is; _1633_]

[33 authoriz'd, _1635-54:_ authorized, _1633:_ authoriz'd. _1669_]

[35-6 Some ... equall it;] _in brackets_ _1635-54_]

[37-9

The iron Age _that_ was, when justice was sold, now Injustice is sold deerer farre; allow All demands, fees, and duties; gamsters, anon

_1633_, _D_, _JC_ (All claym'd fees), _Lec_, _N_, _Q_ (All claym'd fees), _TCD_, _W_ (All claym'd fees):

The iron Age _that_ was, when justice was sold (now Injustice is sold dearer) did allow All claim'd fees and duties. Gamesters, anon

_1635-54_, _B_, _O'F_, _P_ (_the last two omit_ that was), _Chambers (no italics):_

The iron Age was, when justice was sold, now Injustice is sold dearer far, allow All claim'd fees and duties, Gamesters, anon

_1669_ ]

[46 Flow] Flows _O'F_, _Chambers_. _See note_]

[49 complaine,] complaine; _1633_

go'st] goest _1633-39_]

[50 when upwards: _1633-54_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _TCD_, _W_: upwards, _1669_, _Chambers_]

[52 the, _1633_: thy _1635-69_]

[56 only who have] only, who have, _1633_

more.] more _1633_]

[57 he ... so, _1633-54_: and he who made them so, _1669_: he ... and cal'd (_changed to_ stil'd) them so, _O'F_]

[58 that] _om. 1669_]

[59 supplications] supplication _1635-54_]

[61 Courts, _1635-69_, _B_, _JC_, _L74_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _W_: Court, _1633_, _D_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TCD_]

[63 'tis. Would _1669_: 'tis, would _1633_: 'tis; Would _1635-54_]

[68 aske _1669_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W_: lack _1633-54_, _Lec_

comming?] comming; _1633_]

[72 Speakes Fates words, and but tells us _&c._ _Q_, _W_, _Chambers_: Speakes Fates words, and tells who must bee _1633-69_]

[76 men,] men; _1633_

th'extremities, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _TCD_, _W:_ extremities, _1633:_ extremities. _1635-69_]

[78 comes to.] can come to. _Q_]

[80 which erst men bar'd _1635-69,_ _B_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_, _W:_ which men bared _1633_, _D_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ which men erst bar'd _A25_, _L74_, _P_]

[85: great] _om. Q_

Carricks _1633-35:_ Charricks _1639-69_]

[87 Haman, _1633:_ Hammon, _1635-69_, _P:_ _MSS. generally vary between_ Haman _and_ Hammond

when _1633_, _1669_, _D_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ if _1635-54_, _A25_, _B_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Q_, _S_]

[90 Thou'art _Ed:_ Thou art _1633-69_

cosened,] cozeneth, _1669_]

[91 And _1633:_ Which _1635-69:_ Whoe _Q_

div'st, _1633-54_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TCD:_ div'st _1669:_ div'dst _D_, _L74_, _Lec_ (_altered from_ div'st), _W:_ div'd _A25_, _B_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S_ (_Grosart_), _Q_

what's vanished. _N:_ what vanished. _1633-54 and rest of MSS.:_ what vanisheth. _1669_]

_Vpon Mr. Thomas Coryats Crudities._

Oh to what height will love of greatnesse drive Thy leavened spirit, _Sesqui-superlative_? Venice vast lake thou hadst seen, and would seek than Some vaster thing, and found'st a Curtizan. That inland Sea having discovered well, 5 A Cellar gulfe, where one might saile to hell From Heydelberg, thou longdst to see: And thou This Booke, greater then all, producest now. Infinite worke, which doth so far extend, That none can study it to any end. 10 'Tis no one thing, it is not fruit nor roote; Nor poorely limited with head or foot. If man be therefore man, because he can Reason, and laugh, thy booke doth halfe make man. One halfe being made, thy modestie was such, 15 That thou on th'other half wouldst never touch. When wilt thou be at full, great Lunatique? Not till thou exceed the world? Canst thou be like A prosperous nose-borne wenne, which sometimes growes To be farre greater then the Mother-nose? 20 Goe then; and as to thee, when thou didst go, _Munster_ did Townes, and _Gesner_ Authors show, Mount now to _Gallo-belgicus_; appear As deepe a States-man, as a Gazettier. Homely and familiarly, when thou com'st back, 25 Talke of _Will. Conquerour_, and _Prester Iack_. Go bashfull man, lest here thou blush to looke Vpon the progresse of thy glorious booke, To which both Indies sacrifices send; The West sent gold, which thou didst freely spend, 30 (Meaning to see't no more) upon the presse. The East sends hither her deliciousnesse; And thy leaves must imbrace what comes from thence, The Myrrhe, the Pepper, and the Frankincense. This magnifies thy leaves; but if they stoope 35 To neighbour wares, when Merchants do unhoope Voluminous barrels; if thy leaves do then Convey these wares in parcels unto men; If for vast Tons of Currans, and of Figs, Of Medicinall and Aromatique twigs, 40 Thy leaves a better method do provide, Divide to pounds, and ounces sub-divide; If they stoope lower yet, and vent our wares, Home-_manufactures_, to thick popular Faires, If _omni-praegnant_ there, upon warme stalls, 45 They hatch all wares for which the buyer calls; Then thus thy leaves we justly may commend, That they all kinde of matter comprehend. Thus thou, by means which th'Ancients never took, A Pandect makest, and Vniversall Booke. 50 The bravest Heroes, for publike good, Scattered in divers Lands their limbs and blood. Worst malefactors, to whom men are prize, Do publike good, cut in Anatomies; So will thy booke in peeces; for a Lord 55 Which casts at Portescues, and all the board, Provide whole books; each leafe enough will be For friends to passe time, and keep company. Can all carouse up thee? no, thou must fit Measures; and fill out for the half-pint wit: 60 Some shall wrap pils, and save a friends life so, Some shall stop muskets, and so kill a foe. Thou shalt not ease the Criticks of next age So much, at once their hunger to asswage: Nor shall wit-pirats hope to finde thee lye 65 All in one bottome, in one Librarie. Some Leaves may paste strings there in other books, And so one may, which on another looks, Pilfer, alas, a little wit from you; [Sidenote *: I meane from one page which shall paste strings in a booke[1]] But hardly[*] much; and yet I think this true; 70 As _Sibyls_ was, your booke is mysticall, For every peece is as much worth as all. Therefore mine impotency I confesse, The healths which my braine bears must be far lesse: Thy Gyant-wit'orethrowes me, I am gone; 75 And rather then read all, I would reade none.

_I. D._

[Footnote 1: I meane _&c._ _side-note in 1611_]

[Vpon Mr. _&c._ _1649_, _where it was placed with_ The Token (_p._ 72_), _at the end of the_ Funerall Elegies: _appeared originally in_ Coryats Crudities (_1611: see note_) _with heading_ Incipit Joannes Donne.]

[2 leavened _1611:_ learned _1649-69 and mod. edd._]

[7 longdst _1611:_ long'st _1649-69_]

[19 sometimes.] sometime _1611_]

[24 Gazettier. _1611:_ Garretteir _1649-69_]

[28 booke,] booke. _1611_]

[37 barrels; _1649-69:_ barrels, _1611_]

[56 board, _1611:_ board _1649-69_]

_In eundem Macaronicon._

_Quot, dos haec_, +Linguists+ perfetti, _Disticha_ fairont, _Tot_ cuerdos +States-men+, _hic_ livre fara _tuus_. Es _sat_ a my l'honneur estre hic inteso; Car +I leave+ L'honra, de personne nestre creduto, _tibi_.

_Explicit Joannes Donne._

[In eundem _&c. 1611, concluding the above_]

* * * * *

[Illustration: JOHN DONNE, 1613

_Viri seraphici Joannis Donne Qua- dragenarij Effigies vera, Qui post eam ætatem Sacris initiatus Ec- clesiæ S^{ti} Pauli Decanus obijt._

_Año { Do[~m] 1631º { Ætatis suæ 59º_

("A true portrait of that seraphic man John Donne at the age of 40; he was later ordained into holy orders and died Dean of St Paul's in the year of our Lord 1631 at the age of 59")

From the engraving prefixed to his son's edition of the _Letters to Several Persons of Honour_ 1651, 1654]

* * * * *

LETTERS

TO SEVERALL PERSONAGES.

THE STORME.

To Mr. _Christopher Brooke_.

Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe) Thou which art still thy selfe, by these shalt know Part of our passage; And, a hand, or eye By _Hilliard_ drawne, is worth an history, By a worse painter made; and (without pride) 5 When by thy judgment they are dignifi'd, My lines are such: 'Tis the preheminence Of friendship onely to'impute excellence. England to whom we'owe, what we be, and have, Sad that her sonnes did seeke a forraine grave 10 (For, Fates, or Fortunes drifts none can soothsay, Honour and misery have one face and way.) From out her pregnant intrailes sigh'd a winde Which at th'ayres middle marble roome did finde Such strong resistance, that it selfe it threw 15 Downeward againe; and so when it did view How in the port, our fleet deare time did leese, Withering like prisoners, which lye but for fees, Mildly it kist our sailes, and, fresh and sweet, As to a stomack sterv'd, whose insides meete, 20 Meate comes, it came; and swole our sailes, when wee So joyd, as _Sara_'her swelling joy'd to see. But 'twas but so kinde, as our countrimen, Which bring friends one dayes way, and leave them then. Then like two mighty Kings, which dwelling farre 25 Asunder, meet against a third to warre, The South and West winds joyn'd, and, as they blew, Waves like a rowling trench before them threw. Sooner then you read this line, did the gale, Like shot, not fear'd till felt, our sailes assaile; 30 And what at first was call'd a gust, the same Hath now a stormes, anon a tempests name. _Ionas_, I pitty thee, and curse those men, Who when the storm rag'd most, did wake thee then; Sleepe is paines easiest salue, and doth fullfill 35 All offices of death, except to kill. But when I wakt, I saw, that I saw not; I, and the Sunne, which should teach mee'had forgot East, West, Day, Night, and I could onely say, If'the world had lasted, now it had beene day. 40 Thousands our noyses were, yet wee'mongst all Could none by his right name, but thunder call: Lightning was all our light, and it rain'd more Then if the Sunne had drunke the sea before. Some coffin'd in their cabbins lye,'equally 45 Griev'd that they are not dead, and yet must dye; And as sin-burd'ned soules from graves will creepe, At the last day, some forth their cabbins peepe: And tremblingly'aske what newes, and doe heare so, Like jealous husbands, what they would not know. 50 Some sitting on the hatches, would seeme there, With hideous gazing to feare away feare. Then note they the ships sicknesses, the Mast Shak'd with this ague, and the Hold and Wast With a salt dropsie clog'd, and all our tacklings 55 Snapping, like too-high-stretched treble strings. And from our totterd sailes, ragges drop downe so, As from one hang'd in chaines, a yeare agoe. Even our Ordinance plac'd for our defence, Strive to breake loose, and scape away from thence. 60 Pumping hath tir'd our men, and what's the gaine? Seas into seas throwne, we suck in againe; Hearing hath deaf'd our saylers; and if they Knew how to heare, there's none knowes what to say. Compar'd to these stormes, death is but a qualme, 65 Hell somewhat lightsome, and the'Bermuda calme. Darknesse, lights elder brother, his birth-right Claims o'r this world, and to heaven hath chas'd light. All things are one, and that one none can be, Since all formes, uniforme deformity 70 Doth cover, so that wee, except God say Another _Fiat_, shall have no more day. So violent, yet long these furies bee, That though thine absence sterve me,'I wish not thee.

[The Storme. To Mr. Christopher Brooke. _1633_ (_1635-69 add_ from the Iland voyage with the Earle of Essex): The Storme, A Storme _or_ Storme; _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _TCD_, _W_: _some add_ To Mr. C: B: _or a longer note to the same effect as 1635-69:_ to S^r Basil Brooke _JC_, _S_]

[2 these _1633 and most MSS._: this _1635-69_, _O'F_, _S_]

[4 an _1633:_ a _1635-69_]

[7 such: _Ed:_ such. _1633-69_]

[11 soothsay, _1650-54:_ _spelt_ Southsay _1633-39:_ gainsay _1669_]

[12 and way. _1633_, _1669:_ one way. _1635-54_]

[18 lye] laie _Q_]

[19 fresh _W:_ fresh, _1633-69_]

[20 As _W:_ As, _1633-69_]

[23 'twas _1650-69:_ 'twas, _1633-39_]

[30 fear'd] fear'd, _1633_]

[37 not; _Ed:_ not. _1633-69_]

[38 I, and the Sunne, _1633-69 and most MSS.:_ yea, and the Sunne, _Q_]

[39 Day, Night, _D_, _W:_ day, night, _1633-69_

could onely say _1633-69:_ could but say _Cy_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Q_, _N_, _S_, _TCD_, _W:_ could then but say _O'F:_ could say _H49_, _Lec:_ should say _D_]

[40 lasted, now _1633_, _1669:_ lasted, yet _1635-54:_ Lasted yet, _O'F_]

[42 his] this _1669_]

[44 before.] before; _1633_]

[46 dye; _Ed:_ dye. _1633-69_]

[47 graves _1669_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TCD_, _W:_ grave _1633-54_, _Cy_]

[49 tremblingly _1633_, _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_, _W:_ trembling _1635-69_, _Cy_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_]

[50 Like _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_, _W:_ As _1635-69_]

[53 Then] There _1669_]

[54 this] an _1635-69_]

[56 too-high-stretched _1633_, _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TCD_, _W_ (_MS. spelling generally_ to _and_ stretcht): too-too-high-stretch'd _1635-54:_ to too-high-stretch'd _1669_, _B_, _O'F_]

[59 Even our Ordinance _1633 and MSS.:_ Yea even our Ordinance _1635-69_]

[60 Strive _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _S_, _TCD_, _W:_ Strives _1635-69_, _Chambers:_ Striv'd _A25_, _B_, _Cy_]

[66 Hell] Hell's _S_

lightsome] light _B_, _Cy_

and the'Bermuda _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_, _W:_ and the Bermudas _B_, _Cy_, _HN_, _P_, _S_, _Q:_ the Bermudas _1635-54_, _O'F:_ the _Bermuda's_ _1669_]

[67 elder _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _TCD_, _W:_ eldest _1633-69_, _B_, _Lec_]

[68 Claims _1635-69 and MSS.:_ Claim'd _1633_ this _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ the _1635-69_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_]

THE CALME.

Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage, A stupid calme, but nothing it, doth swage. The fable is inverted, and farre more A blocke afflicts, now, then a storke before. Stormes chafe, and soone weare out themselves, or us; 5 In calmes, Heaven laughs to see us languish thus. As steady'as I can wish, that my thoughts were, Smooth as thy mistresse glasse, or what shines there, The sea is now. And, as the Iles which wee Seeke, when wee can move, our ships rooted bee. 10 As water did in stormes, now pitch runs out: As lead, when a fir'd Church becomes one spout. And all our beauty, and our trimme, decayes, Like courts removing, or like ended playes. The fighting place now seamens ragges supply; 15 And all the tackling is a frippery. No use of lanthornes; and in one place lay Feathers and dust, to day and yesterday. Earths hollownesses, which the worlds lungs are, Have no more winde then the upper valt of aire. 20 We can nor lost friends, nor sought foes recover, But meteorlike, save that wee move not, hover. Onely the Calenture together drawes Deare friends, which meet dead in great fishes jawes: And on the hatches as on Altars lyes 25 Each one, his owne Priest, and owne Sacrifice. Who live, that miracle do multiply Where walkers in hot Ovens, doe not dye. If in despite of these, wee swimme, that hath No more refreshing, then our brimstone Bath, 30 But from the sea, into the ship we turne, Like parboyl'd wretches, on the coales to burne. Like _Bajazet_ encag'd, the shepheards scoffe, Or like slacke sinew'd _Sampson_, his haire off, Languish our ships. Now, as a Miriade 35 Of Ants, durst th'Emperours lov'd snake invade, The crawling Gallies, Sea-goales, finny chips, Might brave our Pinnaces, now bed-ridde ships. Whether a rotten state, and hope of gaine, Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine 40 Of being belov'd, and loving, or the thirst Of honour, or faire death, out pusht mee first, I lose my end: for here as well as I A desperate may live, and a coward die. Stagge, dogge, and all which from, or towards flies, 45 Is paid with life, or pray, or doing dyes. Fate grudges us all, and doth subtly lay A scourge,'gainst which wee all forget to pray, He that at sea prayes for more winde, as well Under the poles may begge cold, heat in hell. 50 What are wee then? How little more alas Is man now, then before he was? he was Nothing; for us, wee are for nothing fit; Chance, or our selves still disproportion it. Wee have no power, no will, no sense; I lye, 55 I should not then thus feele this miserie.

[The Calme. _1633-69:_ _similarly_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _TCD_]

[4 storke] stroke _1639_]

[7 can wish, that my _1633_, _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TCD:_ could wish that my _Q:_ could wish my _1635-69_, _Chambers, who makes no note of 1633 reading_]

[9 the Iles _1633-69:_ these isles _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _Chambers (no note):_ those Iles _B_, _Cy_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD_]

[11 out: _1635-69:_ out _1633_]

[14 ended] ending _1669_]

[15 ragges] rage _1669_]

[17 No] Now _1669_]

[21 lost] lefte _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _TCD_]

[24 jawes: _1633_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _Q_, _S_, _TCD:_ mawes, _1635-69_, _O'F_, _P_, _Chambers_]

[29 these,] this, _L74_, _Q_, _TCD_]

[30 our _1633_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TCD:_ a _1635-69_, _A25_, _P_]

[33 shepheards _1650-69:_ sheepheards _1633-39_]

[37 Sea-goales, (_or_ gayles _&c._) _1633_, _1669_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TCD:_ Sea-gulls, _1635-54_, _O'F_, _Chambers:_ Sea-snayles, _B_, _JC_]

[38 our Pinnaces, now _1635-54_, _B_, _O'F:_ our venices, now _1633_, _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _TCD:_ with _Vinice's_, our _1669_]

[40 Or] Or, _1633-69_]

[44 and a coward _1633_, _MSS.:_ and coward _1635-69:_ a coward _P_, _S_]

[45 and all] and each _B_, _Q_, _S_]

[48 forget _1633-54_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _P_, _S:_ forgot _1669_, _A25_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _Q_, _TCD_]

[50 poles] pole _JC_, _Q_]

[52-3 he was? he was Nothing; for us, wee are for nothing fit; _1633_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TCD_ (_but MSS. have no stop after_ Nothing): he was, he was? Nothing; for us, wee are for nothing fit; _1635-54:_ he was, he was? Nothing for us, we are for nothing fit; _1669_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _Q:_ _but the MSS. have not all got a mark of interrogation or other stop after second_ he was. _See note_]

To S^r _Henry Wotton_.

Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules; For, thus friends absent speake. This ease controules The tediousnesse of my life: But for these I could ideate nothing, which could please, But I should wither in one day, and passe 5 To'a bottle'of Hay, that am a locke of Grasse. Life is a voyage, and in our lifes wayes Countries, Courts, Towns are Rockes, or Remoraes; They breake or stop all ships, yet our state's such, That though then pitch they staine worse, wee must touch. 10 If in the furnace of the even line, Or under th'adverse icy poles thou pine, Thou know'st two temperate Regions girded in, Dwell there: But Oh, what refuge canst thou winne Parch'd in the Court, and in the country frozen? 15 Shall cities, built of both extremes, be chosen? Can dung and garlike be'a perfume? or can A Scorpion and Torpedo cure a man? Cities are worst of all three; of all three (O knottie riddle) each is worst equally. 20 Cities are Sepulchers; they who dwell there Are carcases, as if no such there were. And Courts are Theaters, where some men play Princes, some slaves, all to one end, and of one clay. The Country is a desert, where no good, 25 Gain'd (as habits, not borne,) is understood. There men become beasts, and prone to more evils; In cities blockes, and in a lewd court, devills. As in the first Chaos confusedly Each elements qualities were in the'other three; 30 So pride, lust, covetize, being feverall To these three places, yet all are in all, And mingled thus, their issue incestuous. Falshood is denizon'd. Virtue is barbarous. Let no man say there, Virtues flintie wall 35 Shall locke vice in mee, I'll do none, but know all. Men are spunges, which to poure out, receive, Who know false play, rather then lose, deceive. For in best understandings, sinne beganne, Angels sinn'd first, then Devills, and then man. 40 Onely perchance beast sinne not; wretched wee Are beasts in all, but white integritie. I thinke if men, which in these places live Durst looke for themselves, and themselves retrive, They would like strangers greet themselves, seeing than 45 Utopian youth, growne old Italian. Be thou thine owne home, and in thy selfe dwell; Inne any where, continuance maketh hell. And seeing the snaile, which every where doth rome, Carrying his owne house still, still is at home, 50 Follow (for he is easie pac'd) this snaile, Bee thine owne Palace, or the world's thy gaile. And in the worlds sea, do not like corke sleepe Upon the waters face; nor in the deepe Sinke like a lead without a line: but as 55 Fishes glide, leaving no print where they passe, Nor making sound; so closely thy course goe, let men dispute, whether thou breathe, or no. Onely'in this one thing, be no Galenist: To make Courts hot ambitions wholesome, do not take 60 A dramme of Countries dulnesse; do not adde Correctives, but as chymiques, purge the bad. But, Sir, I advise not you, I rather doe Say o'er those lessons, which I learn'd of you: Whom, free from German schismes, and lightness 65 Of France, and faire Italies faithlesnesse, Having from these suck'd all they had of worth, And brought home that faith, which you carried forth, I throughly love. But if my selfe, I'have wonne To know my rules, I have, and you have 70 DONNE:

[To S^r Henry Wotton. _1633-69_ (Sir _1669_): _same or no title_, _A18_, _A25_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ To M^r H. W. _B_, _W_ (_B adds_ J. D.). _See note_]

[4 I could invent nothing at all to please, _1669_]

[6 bottle] botle _1633_ To a lock of hay, that am a Bottle of grass. _1669_]

[7 lifes _1633:_ lives _1635-69_]

[10 though ... worse, _in brackets 1650-69_]

[11 even _1669_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ raging _1633-54:_ other _P:_ over _S_]

[12 poles _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _P_, _O'F_, _S_, _W:_ pole _1633-69_, _A18_, _HN_, _N_, _TC_]

[16 cities, ... extremes, _Ed:_ cities ... extremes _1633-69_]

[17 dung and garlike _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _TC_, _W_ (dung, _1633_): dung, or garlike _1635-69_, _A25_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_ a perfume] a _om. 1635-54_, _Chambers_]

[18 Scorpion _Ed:_ Scorpion, _1633-69_

and Torpedo _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _TC_, _W:_ or Torpedo _1633-69_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_. _See note_]

[19 of all three _1633:_ of all three? _1635-69_]

[22 no such _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _S_, _TC_, _W:_ none such _1635-69_, _O'F_, _P_

there were. _1635-69_, _A36_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _W:_ they were. _1633_, _Lec:_ then were _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[24 and of one clay. _1633 and MSS. generally:_ of one clay. _1635-39:_ of one day. _1650-54:_ and at one daye. _A25:_ Princes, some slaves, and all end in one day. _1669_]

[25-6

The Country is a desert, where no good, Gain'd, as habits, not borne, is understood.

_1633_, _1669_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _S96_, _TC_, _W_

The Country is a desert, where the good, Gain'd inhabits not, borne, is not understood.

_1635-54_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_

The Country is a desert, where noe good Gain'd doth inhabit, nor born's understood.

_A25_]

[27 more _1633_, _A25_, _W:_ meere _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _S96:_ men (_a slip for_ mere) _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ all _1635-69_. _See note_]

[33 issue incestuous, _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _TC_, _W:_ issue is incestuous. _1635-69_, _P_, _S:_ issues monsterous. _A25_]

[35 there] then _Lec_]

[44 for themselves, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ in themselves, _1633-69:_ into themselves, themselves retrive, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_]

[45 than] then _1663_]

[45-6 than ... Italian.] that ... Italianate. _Cy_, _P_]

[47 Be thou _1633_, _Lec:_ Be then _1635-69 and MSS._]

[50 home, _Ed:_ home. _1633:_ home: _1635-69_]

[52 gaile. _1635-69:_ goale; _1633_]

[57 so _D, W:_ so _1633-69_]

[58-9 breathe,] breath, _1633_

or no. Onely'in this one thing, be no Galenist: _Ed:_ or no: Onley ... Galenist. _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _TC_, _W:_ or no: Onely in this be no Galenist. _1635-69_, _Cy_, O_'F_, _S_]

[64 you:] you. _1633_]

[65 German _1633 and all MSS.:_ Germanies _1635-69_, _Grosart and Chambers (without note)_]

To S^r _Henry Goodyere_.

Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare, Turnes no new leafe, but still the same things reads, Seene things, he sees againe, heard things doth heare, And makes his life, but like a paire of beads.

A Palace, when'tis that, which it should be, 5 Leaves growing, and stands such, or else decayes: But hee which dwels there, is not so; for hee Strives to urge upward, and his fortune raise;

So had your body'her morning, hath her noone, And shall not better; her next change is night: 10 But her faire larger guest, to'whom Sun and Moone Are sparkes, and short liv'd, claimes another right.

The noble Soule by age growes lustier, Her appetite, and her digestion mend, Wee must not sterve, nor hope to pamper her 15 With womens milke, and pappe unto the end.

Provide you manlyer dyet; you have seene All libraries, which are Schools, Camps, and Courts; But aske your Garners if you have not beene In harvests, too indulgent to your sports. 20

Would you redeeme it? then your selfe transplant A while from hence. Perchance outlandish ground Beares no more wit, then ours, but yet more scant Are those diversions there, which here abound.

To be a stranger hath that benefit, 25 Wee can beginnings, but not habits choke. Goe; whither? Hence; you get, if you forget; New faults, till they prescribe in us, are smoake.

Our soule, whose country'is heaven, and God her father, Into this world, corruptions sinke, is sent, 30 Yet, so much in her travaile she doth gather, That she returnes home, wiser then she went;

It payes you well, if it teach you to spare, And make you,'ashm'd, to make your hawks praise, yours, Which when herselfe she lessens in the aire, 35 You then first say, that high enough she toures.

However, keepe the lively tast you hold Of God, love him as now, but feare him more, And in your afternoones thinke what you told And promis'd him, at morning prayer before. 40

Let falshood like a discord anger you, Else be not froward. But why doe I touch Things, of which none is in your practise new, And Tables, or fruit-trenchers teach as much;

But thus I make you keepe your promise Sir, 45 Riding I had you, though you still staid there, And in these thoughts, although you never stirre, You came with mee to Micham, and are here.

[To Sir Henry Goodyere. _1633-69:_ _so with_ Goodyere _variously spelt_ _A25_, _B_, _C_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ To S^r Henry Goodyere (H: G: _A18_, _N_, _TC_) moveing him to travell. _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]

[1 Past, _1633-54_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ Last _1669_, _Chambers_]

[2 reads,] read, _1650-54_]

[6 decayes:] decayes, _1633_]

[16 womens] womans _1669_]

[17 dyet; _Ed:_ dyet, _1633_ (_with a larger interval than is usually given to a comma_), _1669:_ dyet. _1635-54_]

[20 harvests, _1633-54_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _TC:_ harvest, _1669_, _A25_, _C_, _Cy_, _N_, _O'F_, _Chambers_]

[27 Goe; _A18_, _B_, _TC:_ Goe, _1633-69_

Hence; _A18_, _TC:_ hence; _1633:_ hence _1635-54:_ Hence. _1669_]

[28 in us, _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _C_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _TC:_ to us, _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_]

[34 you,'asham'd, _Ed:_ you'asham'd, _1633-69:_ you asham'd _Chambers and Grolier_. _See note_]

[37 However, _1633-39:_ However _1650-69:_ Howsoever _A18_, _B_, _D_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]

[38 as] _om. 1639-69_]

[42 froward.] froward; _1633_]

[44 Tables _1633-54_, _Lec:_ Fables _1669_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]

[45 make] made _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[48 with mee to] to mee at _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

To M^r _Rowland Woodward_.

Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe Her selfe a Nunne, tyed to retirednesse, So'affects my muse now, a chast fallownesse;

Since shee to few, yet to too many'hath showne How love-song weeds, and Satyrique thornes are growne 5 Where seeds of better Arts, were early sown.

Though to use, and love Poëtrie, to mee, Betroth'd to no'one Art, be no'adulterie; Omissions of good, ill, as ill deeds bee.

For though to us it seeme,'and be light and thinne, 10 Yet in those faithfull scales, where God throwes in Mens workes, vanity weighs as much as sinne.

If our Soules have stain'd their first white, yet wee May cloth them with faith, and deare honestie, Which God imputes, as native puritie. 15

There is no Vertue, but Religion: Wise, valiant, sober, just, are names, which none Want, which want not Vice-covering discretion.

Seeke wee then our selves in our selves; for as Men force the Sunne with much more force to passe, 20 By gathering his beames with a christall glasse;

So wee, If wee into our selves will turne, Blowing our sparkes of vertue, may outburne The straw, which doth about our hearts sojourne.

You know, Physitians, when they would infuse 25 Into any'oyle, the Soules of Simples, use Places, where they may lie still warme, to chuse.

So workes retirednesse in us; To rome Giddily, and be every where, but at home, Such freedome doth a banishment become. 30

Wee are but farmers of our selves, yet may, If we can stocke our selves, and thrive, uplay Much, much deare treasure for the great rent day.

Manure thy selfe then, to thy selfe be'approv'd, And with vaine outward things be no more mov'd, 35 But to know, that I love thee'and would be lov'd.

[To M^r Rowland Woodward. _1633-69:_ _similarly or without heading_, _A18_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ A Letter of Doctor Dunne to one that desired some of his papers. _B:_ To M^r R. W. _W_]

[1 professe] professe, _1633_]

[2 retirednesse, _1633-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _S:_ a retirednesse, _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _TC_, _W_]

[3 fallownesse; _Ed:_ fallownesse. _1633-54:_ fallowness, _1669:_ holinesse _Cy_, _P_, _S96_]

[4 too] so _W_ showne _1633_, _1669:_ flowne, _1635-54_]

[5 How love-song weeds, _1633:_ How long loves weeds, _1635-54_, _O'F:_ How Love-song weeds, _1669_]

[6 sown. _1633_, _1669:_ sown? _1635-54:_ sown; _Chambers, who retains the full-stop after_ fallownesse]

[10 to us it] to use it, _Cy_, _P_, _S96_

seeme,'and be light _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _L74_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ seem but light _1635-69_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _and Chambers, who attributes to 1633 the reading_ seem and be but light]

[13 white] whites _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_]

[14 honestie] integritie _Cy_, _P_, _S_, _S96_]

[15 puritie.] puritie, _1633_]

[16 Religion: _1669:_ Religion, _1633:_ Religion. _1635-54_]

[23 our] the _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _TC_

sparkes _1633-54_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ spark _1669_, _A18_, _H40_, _S_, _Chambers_]

[25 infuse] infuse _1633_]

[26 Soules _1633-69_, _Cy_, _P:_ soule _B_, _D_, _H40_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W_]

[28 To _1635-69:_ to _1633_]

[29 Giddily, _1669:_ Giddily _1633-54_]

[31 farmers _1635-69_, _and all MSS., where it is generally spelt_ fermers: termers _1633_]

[33 deare _1633_, _and most MSS.:_ good _1635-69_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_]

[34 approv'd _1633-54_, _A18_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ improv'd _1669_, _B_, _Chambers_]

[36 lov'd. _1633-69:_ belov'd. _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_]

To S^r _Henry Wootton_.

Here's no more newes, then vertue,'I may as well Tell you _Cales_, or S^t _Michaels_ tale for newes, as tell That vice doth here habitually dwell.

Yet, as to'get stomachs, we walke up and downe, And toyle to sweeten rest, so, may God frowne, 5 If, but to loth both, I haunt Court, or Towne.

For here no one is from the'extremitie Of vice, by any other reason free, But that the next to'him, still, is worse then hee.

In this worlds warfare, they whom rugged Fate, 10 (Gods Commissary,) doth so throughly hate, As in'the Courts Squadron to marshall their state:

If they stand arm'd with seely honesty, With wishing prayers, and neat integritie, Like Indians'gainst Spanish hosts they bee. 15

Suspitious boldnesse to this place belongs, And to'have as many eares as all have tongues; Tender to know, tough to acknowledge wrongs.

Beleeve mee Sir, in my youths giddiest dayes, When to be like the Court, was a playes praise, 20 Playes were not so like Courts, as Courts'are like playes.

Then let us at these mimicke antiques jeast, Whose deepest projects, and egregious gests Are but dull Moralls of a game at Chests.

But now'tis incongruity to smile, 25 Therefore I end; and bid farewell a while, _At Court_; though _From Court_, were the better stile.

[To S^r Henry Wootton. _1633-69:_ _do. or_ A Letter to _&c._ _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _S_, _S96_ (_of these Cy and S add_ From Court _and_ From y^e Court): From Court. _P:_ To M^r H. W. 20 Jul. 1598 at Court. _HN:_ To M^r H. W. 20 July 15098 (_sic_) At Court. _W:_ Jo: D: to M^r H: W: _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ Another Letter. _JC_]

[1 newes] new _1669_]

[2 Tell you _Cales_, (_Calis_, _1633_) or _S^t Michaels_ tale for newes, as tell _1633_, _A18_, _B_ (tales), _Cy_ (and S^t Michaels tales), _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_ (tales), _P_, _S_, _S96_ (tales), _TC_, _W_ (_MSS. waver in spelling--but_ Cales _Cy_, _HN_, _P:_) Tell you _Calis_, or _Saint Michaels_ tales, as tell _1635-54_, _Chambers_ (Calais): Tell _Calis_, or Saint _Michaels_ Mount, as tell _1669:_ Tell you Calais, or Saint Michaels Mount as tell _1719:_ _All modern editions read_ Calais]

[6 or] and _1669_]

[9 to'him, still, _1633:_ to him, still, _1635-69:_ to him is still _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]

[12 state: _1635-69:_ state _1633_]

[14 wishing prayers, _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TC_, _W:_ wishing, prayers, _1669_, _HN:_ wishes, prayers, _1635-54_, _B_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _Chambers_]

[20 playes] players _1639-69_]

[21 are like _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _S96_ (are now like), _TC_, _W:_ are _om. (metri causa) 1635-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _JC_, _O'F_]

[23-4

are egregeous guests, And but dull Morals at a game of Chests.

_1669_]

[25 now'tis] 'tis an _1669_]

[27 _At Court;_ though, _From Court, &c._ _W:_ _At Court_, though from Court, _&c._ _1633-69_]

_H: W: in Hiber: belligeranti._

Went you to conquer? and have so much lost Yourself, that what in you was best and most, Respective friendship, should so quickly dye? In publique gaine my share'is not such that I Would lose your love for Ireland: better cheap 5 I pardon death (who though he do not reap Yet gleanes hee many of our frends away) Then that your waking mind should bee a prey To lethargies. Lett shott, and boggs, and skeines With bodies deale, as fate bids and restreynes; 10 Ere sicknesses attack, yong death is best, Who payes before his death doth scape arrest. Lett not your soule (at first with graces fill'd, And since, and thorough crooked lymbecks, still'd In many schools and courts, which quicken it,) 15 It self unto the Irish negligence submit. I aske not labored letters which should weare Long papers out: nor letters which should feare Dishonest carriage: or a seers art: Nor such as from the brayne come, but the hart. 20

[H: W: _&c._ _Burley MS._ (JD _in margin_) _i.e._ Henrico Wottoni in Hibernia belligeranti]

[2 that] y^t _Bur, and similarly_ y^e (the), y^r (your), w^{ch} (which), w^{th} (with) _throughout_]

[2-3 most, Respective friendship,] _no commas_, _Bur_]

[4 share'is] share is _Bur_]

[9 lethargies.] letargies. _Bur_]

[10 restreynes;] restreynes _Bur_]

[11 attack,] attack _Bur_

best,] best _Bur_]

[13 (at first] _Bur closes bracket after_ first _and again after_ 15 quicken it,]

[14 since,] since _Bur_]

[19 art:] art _Bur_]

_To the Countesse of Bedford._

MADAME,

Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right, By these wee reach divinity, that's you; Their loves, who have the blessings of your light, Grew from their reason, mine from faire faith grew.

But as, although a squint lefthandednesse 5 Be'ungracious, yet we cannot want that hand, So would I, not to encrease, but to expresse My faith, as I beleeve, so understand.

Therefore I study you first in your Saints, Those friends, whom your election glorifies, 10 Then in your deeds, accesses, and restraints, And what you reade, and what your selfe devize.

But soone, the reasons why you'are lov'd by all, Grow infinite, and so passe reasons reach, Then backe againe to'implicite faith I fall, 15 And rest on what the Catholique voice doth teach;

That you are good: and not one Heretique Denies it: if he did, yet you are so. For, rockes, which high top'd and deep rooted sticke, Waves wash, not undermine, nor overthrow. 20

In every thing there naturally growes A _Balsamum_ to keepe it fresh, and new, If'twere not injur'd by extrinsique blowes; Your birth and beauty are this Balme in you.

But you of learning and religion, 25 And vertue,'and such ingredients, have made A methridate, whose operation Keepes off, or cures what can be done or said.

Yet, this is not your physicke, but your food, A dyet fit for you; for you are here 30 The first good Angell, since the worlds frame stood, That ever did in womans shape appeare.

Since you are then Gods masterpeece, and so His Factor for our loves; do as you doe, Make your returne home gracious; and bestow 35 This life on that; so make one life of two. For so God helpe mee,'I would not misse you there For all the good which you can do me here.

[To the Countesse of Bedford. _1633-69:_ _do. or_ To the Countesse of B. _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_, _RP31_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_]

[3 blessings _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ blessing _1635-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_

light, _1633-69:_ sight, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _RP31_, _S_, _TCD_]

[4 faire _1633-69_, _L74_, _N_, _TCD:_ farr _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _M_, _O'F_, _RP31_, _S_, _S96_]

[16 what] that _Chambers_

voice _1635-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TCD:_ faith _1633_, _RP31_, _S_]

[19 high top'd and deep rooted _1633_, _N_, _TCD:_ high to sense deepe-rooted _1635-54_, _O'F_, _Chambers_ (_who has overlooked 1633 reading:_) high to sense and deepe-rooted _S96:_ high to sun and deepe-rooted _L74_, _RP31_, _S:_ high do seem, deep-rooted _1669_, _Cy_ (_but MS. with_ and): high to some, and deepe-rooted _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ high to seeme, and deepe-rooted _B_. _See note_]

[25 But _Ed:_ But, _1633-69_]

[36 This, _1635-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _RP31_, _S_, _TCD_, _Grosart and Chambers:_ Thy _1633_, _Grolier_. _See note_]

_To the Countesse of Bedford._

MADAME,

You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things (Vertue, Art, Beauty, Fortune,) now I see Rarenesse, or use, not nature value brings; And such, as they are circumstanc'd, they bee. Two ills can ne're perplexe us, sinne to'excuse; 5 But of two good things, we may leave and chuse.

Therefore at Court, which is not vertues clime, (Where a transcendent height, (as, lownesse mee) Makes her not be, or not show) all my rime Your vertues challenge, which there rarest bee; 10 For, as darke texts need notes: there some must bee To usher vertue, and say, _This is shee._

So in the country'is beauty; to this place You are the season (Madame) you the day, 'Tis but a grave of spices, till your face 15 Exhale them, and a thick close bud display. Widow'd and reclus'd else, her sweets she'enshrines; As China, when the Sunne at Brasill dines.

Out from your chariot, morning breaks at night, And falsifies both computations so; 20 Since a new world doth rise here from your light, We your new creatures, by new recknings goe. This showes that you from nature lothly stray, That suffer not an artificiall day.

In this you'have made the Court the Antipodes, 25 And will'd your Delegate, the vulgar Sunne, To doe profane autumnall offices, Whilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne; And whether Priests, or Organs, you wee'obey, We sound your influence, and your Dictates say. 30

Yet to that Deity which dwels in you, Your vertuous Soule, I now not sacrifice; These are _Petitions_ and not _Hymnes_; they sue But that I may survay the edifice. In all Religions as much care hath bin 35 Of Temples frames, and beauty,'as Rites within.

As all which goe to Rome, doe not thereby Esteeme religions, and hold fast the best, But serve discourse, and curiosity, With that which doth religion but invest, 40 And shunne th'entangling laborinths of Schooles, And make it wit, to thinke the wiser fooles:

So in this pilgrimage I would behold You as you'are vertues temple, not as shee, What walls of tender christall her enfold, 45 What eyes, hands, bosome, her pure Altars bee; And after this survay, oppose to all Bablers of Chappels, you th'Escuriall.

Yet not as consecrate, but merely'as faire, On these I cast a lay and country eye. 50 Of past and future stories, which are rare, I finde you all record, and prophecie. Purge but the booke of Fate, that it admit No sad nor guilty legends, you are it.

If good and lovely were not one, of both 55 You were the transcript, and originall, The Elements, the Parent, and the Growth, And every peece of you, is both their All: So'intire are all your deeds, and you, that you Must do the same thinge still; you cannot two. 60

But these (as nice thinne Schoole divinity Serves heresie to furder or represse) Tast of Poëtique rage, or flattery, And need not, where all hearts one truth professe; Oft from new proofes, and new phrase, new doubts grow, 65 As strange attire aliens the men wee know.

Leaving then busie praise, and all appeale To higher Courts, senses decree is true, The Mine, the Magazine, the Commonweale, The story of beauty,'in Twicknam is, and you. 70 Who hath seene one, would both; As, who had bin In Paradise, would seeke the Cherubin.

[the Countesse of Bedford. _1633-69:_ _similarly or with no title_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCD_]

[2 (Vertue, ... Fortune,)] _brackets Ed:_ Fortune, _1633:_ Fortune; _1635-69_, _Grolier:_ Fortune. _Chambers_. _See note_]

[5 ne're] nere _1633_]

[6 and] or _1669_]

[8-9 _1633 begins to bracket_ (Where ... not show) _but does not finish, putting a colon after_ show: _the others drop the larger brackets, retaining the smaller_ (as ... mee)]

[9 be] see _1669_

show] show: _1633-54:_ show. _1669_]

[11 notes: there some _1633-54:_ notes some: there _1669_]

[17 enshrines; _1719:_ enshrines _1633-69_]

[20 computations so; _1633-69:_ computations; so, _Chambers_]

[42 fooles:] fooles. _1633_]

[48 Bablers _1633:_ Babblers _1635-54:_ Builders _1669_]

[49 faire, _Ed:_ faire; _1633-69_]

[50 eye.] eye, _1633_]

[52 and prophecie] all prophecye _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCD_ prophecie.] prophecie, _1633 some copies_]

[57 Parent] Parents _1669_ Growth, _1669:_ Growth _1633-54_]

[58 both _1633 and MSS.:_ worth _1635-69_, _O'F_ All: _Ed:_ All, _1633-69_]

[60 thinge _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F:_ things _1633-69_, _Lec_]

[61 nice thinne _1633-54:_ nicest _1669_]

[66 aliens _1633_, _1669 and MSS.:_ alters _1635-54_, _O'F_]

[67 and] end _1669_, _not_ lend _as in Chambers' note_

appeale _Ed:_ appeale, _1633-69_]

[68 true, _1633:_ true. _1635-69_]

[71 had bin _1633-35:_ hath bin _1639-69_. _See note_]

To S^r _Edward Herbert_. at _Iulyers_.

Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee, Wisdome makes him an Arke where all agree; The foole, in whom these beasts do live at jarre, Is sport to others, and a Theater; Nor scapes hee so, but is himselfe their prey, 5 All which was man in him, is eate away, And now his beasts on one another feed, Yet couple'in anger, and new monsters breed. How happy'is hee, which hath due place assign'd To'his beasts, and disaforested his minde! 10 Empail'd himselfe to keepe them out, not in; Can sow, and dares trust corne, where they have bin; Can use his horse, goate, wolfe, and every beast, And is not Asse himselfe to all the rest. Else, man not onely is the heard of swine, 15 But he's those devills too, which did incline Them to a headlong rage, and made them worse: For man can adde weight to heavens heaviest curse. As Soules (they say) by our first touch, take in The poysonous tincture of Originall sinne, 20 So, to the punishments which God doth fling, Our apprehension contributes the sting. To us, as to his chickins, he doth cast Hemlocke, and wee as men, his hemlocke taste; We do infuse to what he meant for meat, 25 Corrosivenesse, or intense cold or heat. For, God no such specifique poyson hath As kills we know not how; his fiercest wrath Hath no antipathy, but may be good At lest for physicke, if not for our food. 30 Thus man, that might be'his pleasure, is his rod, And is his devill, that might be his God. Since then our businesse is, to rectifie Nature, to what she was, wee'are led awry By them, who man to us in little show; 35 Greater then due, no forme we can bestow On him; for Man into himselfe can draw All; All his faith can swallow,'or reason chaw. All that is fill'd, and all that which doth fill, All the round world, to man is but a pill, 40 In all it workes not, but it is in all Poysonous, or purgative, or cordiall, For, knowledge kindles Calentures in some, And is to others icy _Opium_. As brave as true, is that profession than 45 Which you doe use to make; that you know man. This makes it credible; you have dwelt upon All worthy bookes, and now are such an one.

## Actions are authors, and of those in you

Your friends finde every day a mart of new. 50

[To S^r Edward _&c._ _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _O'F:_ A Letter to S^r Edward Herbert (_or_ Harbert). _B_, _Cy_ (_which adds_ Incerti Authoris), _S96:_ To Sir E. H. _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ _no title_, _P:_ Elegia Vicesima Tertia. _S:_ To S^r Edward Herbert, now (since _1669_) Lord Herbert of Cherbury, being at the siege of Iulyers. _1635-69_]

[4 Theater; _Ed:_ Theater, _1633-69:_ Theater. _D_]

[5 prey, _Ed:_ prey; _1633-69_]

[8 breed.] breed; _1633_]

[10 minde! _Ed:_ minde? _1633-69_]

[17 a headlong] a _om. 1669:_ an headlong _1635-54_]

[24 taste; _Ed:_ taste. _1633-69_]

[28 we know _1633 and MSS.:_ men know _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[35 show; _1669:_ show, _1633-54_, _Chambers_]

[36 due, _1633-69:_ due; _Chambers_. _See note_]

[38 All; All _1669:_ All: All _1635-54:_ All, All _1633_

chaw. _1633:_ chaw, _1635-69_, _Grolier_]

[39 fill, _1633-54:_ fill _1669:_ fill; _Grolier_]

[44 icy] jcy _1633_]

[47-8 credible; ... bookes, _Ed:_ credible, ... bookes; _1633-69:_ credible ... bookes _Grolier_]

_To the Countesse of Bedford._

T'have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee Worst of spirituall vices, Simony, And not t'have written then, seemes little lesse Then worst of civill vices, thanklessenesse. In this, my debt I seem'd loath to confesse, 5 In that, I seem'd to shunne beholdingnesse. But 'tis not soe; _nothings_, as I am, may Pay all they have, and yet have all to pay. Such borrow in their payments, and owe more By having leave to write so, then before. 10 Yet since rich mines in barren grounds are showne, May not I yeeld (not gold) but coale or stone? Temples were not demolish'd, though prophane: Here _Peter Ioves_, there _Paul_ hath _Dian's_ Fane. So whether my hymnes you admit or chuse, 15 In me you'have hallowed a Pagan Muse, And denizend a stranger, who mistaught By blamers of the times they mard, hath sought Vertues in corners, which now bravely doe Shine in the worlds best part, or all It; You. 20 I have beene told, that vertue in Courtiers hearts Suffers an Ostracisme, and departs. Profit, ease, fitnesse, plenty, bid it goe, But whither, only knowing you, I know; Your (or you) vertue two vast uses serves, 25 It ransomes one sex, and one Court preserves. There's nothing but your worth, which being true, Is knowne to any other, not to you: And you can never know it; To admit No knowledge of your worth, is some of it. 30 But since to you, your praises discords bee, Stoop, others ills to meditate with mee. Oh! to confesse wee know not what we should, Is halfe excuse; wee know not what we would: Lightnesse depresseth us, emptinesse fills, 35 We sweat and faint, yet still goe downe the hills. As new Philosophy arrests the Sunne, And bids the passive earth about it runne, So wee have dull'd our minde, it hath no ends; Onely the bodie's busie, and pretends; 40 As dead low earth ecclipses and controules The quick high Moone: so doth the body, Soules. In none but us, are such mixt engines found, As hands of double office: For, the ground We till with them; and them to heav'n wee raise; 45 Who prayer-lesse labours, or, without this, prayes, Doth but one halfe, that's none; He which said, _Plough And looke not back_, to looke up doth allow. Good seed degenerates, and oft obeyes The soyles disease, and into cockle strayes; 50 Let the minds thoughts be but transplanted so, Into the body,'and bastardly they grow. What hate could hurt our bodies like our love? Wee (but no forraine tyrants could) remove These not ingrav'd, but inborne dignities, 55 Caskets of soules; Temples, and Palaces: For, bodies shall from death redeemed bee, Soules but preserv'd, not naturally free. As men to'our prisons, new soules to us are sent, Which learne vice there, and come in innocent. 60 First seeds of every creature are in us, What ere the world hath bad, or pretious, Mans body can produce, hence hath it beene That stones, wormes, frogges, and snakes in man are seene: But who ere saw, though nature can worke soe, 65 That pearle, or gold, or corne in man did grow? We'have added to the world Virginia,'and sent Two new starres lately to the firmament; Why grudge wee us (not heaven) the dignity T'increase with ours, those faire soules company. 70 But I must end this letter, though it doe Stand on two truths, neither is true to you, Vertue hath some perversenesse; For she will Neither beleeve her good, nor others ill. Even in you, vertues best paradise, 75 Vertue hath some, but wise degrees of vice. Too many vertues, or too much of one Begets in you unjust suspition; And ignorance of vice, makes vertue lesse, Quenching compassion of our wrechednesse. 80 But these are riddles; Some aspersion Of vice becomes well some complexion. Statesmen purge vice with vice, and may corrode The bad with bad, a spider with a toad: For so, ill thralls not them, but they tame ill 85 And make her do much good against her will, But in your Commonwealth, or world in you, Vice hath no office, or good worke to doe. Take then no vitious purge, but be content With cordiall vertue, your knowne nourishment. 90

[the _&c._ _1633-69:_ To the Countesse of B. _N_, _O'F_, _TCD_]

[5 debt _1669_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCD:_ doubt _1633-54_]

[7 soe; _Ed:_ soe, _1633-54:_ soe. _1669_

_nothings_, _1635-54:_ _nothing_, _1633_, _N_, _TCD:_ _Nothing_ _1669_

may] may, _1633_]

[14 hath] have _1633:_ _om._ _N_, _TCD_ (have _inserted_)

_Dian's_ _1635-54:_ Dian's _1633:_ _Dina's_ _1669_]

[20 or all It; You. _1635-54:_ or all it, you. _1669_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCD:_ or all, in you. _1633_ (you, _some copies_)]

[25 Your (or you) vertue _O'F:_ Your, or you vertue, _1633-54:_ You, or you vertue, _1669_]

[26 preserves. _Ed:_ preserves; _1633-69_]

[28 you:] you. _1633-39_]

[30 is some] it some _1633_]

[32 Stoop, others ills] Stoop (Stop _1633_) others ills, _1633-54:_ Stoop others ills _1669_]

[34 excuse; _Ed:_ excuse, _1633-69_, _Grosart_ (_who transposes_ should _and_ would), _Chambers:_ excuse _Grolier_. _See note_

would: _Ed:_ would] _1633-69_]

[36 the hills. _Ed:_ the hills; _1633-69_]

[37 Philosophy. Phylosophy _1633 some copies_, _1669_]

[45 raise;] raise _1633_]

[46 this,] these _1669_]

[50 strayes; _Ed:_ strayes. _1633-69_]

[51 Let] Let but _1669_]

[54 Wee (but no forraine tyrants could) remove _Ed:_ Wee but no forraine tyrants could, remove _O'F:_ Wee but no forraigne tyrants could remove, _1633-54_ (tyrans _1633_): We, but no forrain tyrants, could remove _1669_, _Chambers and Grolier_. _See note_]

[55 dignities, _Ed:_ dignities _1633-69_]

[56 Palaces: _1633-35:_ Palaces. _1639-69_]

[58 not naturally free. _Ed:_ not naturally free; _1633_, _N_, _TCD:_ borne naturally free; _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[59 prisons, new soules _1633:_ prisons now, soules _1635-69_, _O'F:_ prisons, now soules _N_, _TCD_]

[60 vice _1635-69_, _O'F:_ it _1633_, _N_, _TCD_]

[66 That] That, _1633_

grow? _1639-69:_ grow. _1633-35_]

[74 ill.] ill, _1633-35_]

[75 you, _1669:_ you _1635-54:_ your _1633_]

[78 suspition; _Ed:_ suspition. _1633-69_]

[79 makes] make _1635-39_]

[87 Commonwealth, ... you,] _no commas 1633_]

_To the Countesse of_ Bedford.

_On New-yeares day._

This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next, Some embleme is of mee, or I of this, Who Meteor-like, of stuffe and forme perplext, Whose _what_, and _where_, in disputation is, If I should call mee _any thing_, should misse. 5

I summe the yeares, and mee, and finde mee not Debtor to th'old, nor Creditor to th'new, That cannot say, My thankes I have forgot, Nor trust I this with hopes, and yet scarce true This bravery is, since these times shew'd mee you. 10

In recompence I would show future times What you were, and teach them to'urge towards such. Verse embalmes vertue;'and Tombs, or Thrones of rimes, Preserve fraile transitory fame, as much As spice doth bodies from corrupt aires touch. 15

Mine are short-liv'd; the tincture of your name Creates in them, but dissipates as fast, New spirits: for, strong agents with the same Force that doth warme and cherish, us doe wast; Kept hot with strong extracts, no bodies last: 20

So, my verse built of your just praise, might want Reason and likelihood, the firmest Base, And made of miracle, now faith is scant, Will vanish soone, and so possesse no place, And you, and it, too much grace might disgrace. 25

When all (as truth commands assent) confesse All truth of you, yet they will doubt how I, One corne of one low anthills dust, and lesse, Should name, know, or expresse a thing so high, And not an inch, measure infinity. 30

I cannot tell them, nor my selfe, nor you, But leave, lest truth b'endanger'd by my praise, And turne to God, who knowes I thinke this true, And useth oft, when such a heart mis-sayes, To make it good, for, such a praiser prayes. 35

Hee will best teach you, how you should lay out His stock of _beauty_, _learning_, _favour_, _blood_; He will perplex security with doubt, And cleare those doubts; hide from you,'and shew you good, And so increase your appetite and food; 40

Hee will teach you, that good and bad have not One latitude in cloysters, and in Court; Indifferent there the greatest space hath got; Some pitty'is not good there, some vaine disport, On this side sinne, with that place may comport. 45

Yet he, as hee bounds seas, will fixe your houres, Which pleasure, and delight may not ingresse, And though what none else lost, be truliest yours, Hee will make you, what you did not, possesse, By using others, not vice, but weakenesse. 50

He will make you speake truths, and credibly, And make you doubt, that others doe not so: Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie, And scape spies, to good ends, and hee will show What you may not acknowledge, what not know. 55

For your owne conscience, he gives innocence, But for your fame, a discreet warinesse, And though to scape, then to revenge offence Be better, he showes both, and to represse _Ioy_, when your state swells, _sadnesse_ when'tis lesse. 60

From need of teares he will defend your soule, Or make a rebaptizing of one teare; Hee cannot, (that's, he will not) dis-inroule Your name; and when with active joy we heare This private Ghospell, then'tis our New Yeare. 65

[To the _&c._ _1633-69:_ To the Countesse of B. at New-yeares tide. _N_, _O'F_, _TCD_]

[3-4 (Meteor-like, ... disputation is,) _1635-69_]

[9 true _Ed:_ true, _1633_ true. _1635-69_]

[10 is, _Ed:_ is _1633-69_ (_in 1633 the interval shows that a comma was intended_)

times] time _1633_]

[12 such. _Ed:_ such, _1633-69_]

[16 short-liv'd] short liv'd _1633_]

[17 fast,] fast _1633_]

[18 spirits: _Ed:_ spirit: _1633:_ spirits; _1635-69_]

[19 cherish, us doe _1633:_ cherish us, doe _1635-69_]

[27 I, _Ed:_ I _1633-69_]

[28 (One corne ... and lesse,) _1635-69_]

[29 name, know,] _no commas 1633-69_]

[30 And not an inch, _1633:_ And (not an inch) _1635-69_

infinity.] infinite. _1669_]

[35 praiser prayes. _1635-69_, _O'F:_ prayer prayes. _1633:_ prayer praise. _N_, _TCD_]

[37 _blood_;] _blood_, _1633_]

[39 doubts;] doubts, _1633_]

[42 Court; _Ed:_ Court, _1633-69_]

[43 got; _Ed:_ got, _1633-69_]

[44 pitty' _1633-69:_ piety _James Russell Lowell, in Grolier note_. _See note_]

[45 On this side sinne, _Ed_ (_from Chambers_): On this side, sinne; _1633:_ On this side, sin, _1635-69_. _See note_]

[46 he, _Ed:_ he _1633-69_]

[47 Which] With _1633_]

[55 may] will _1669_]

[58-9 (though to scape ... Be better,) _1635-69_]

[65 New Yeare.] new yeare, _1633_]

_To the Countesse of Huntingdon._

MADAME,

Man to Gods image; _Eve_, to mans was made, Nor finde wee that God breath'd a soule in her, Canons will not Church functions you invade, Nor lawes to civill office you preferre.

Who vagrant transitory Comets sees, 5 Wonders, because they'are rare; But a new starre Whose motion with the firmament agrees, Is miracle; for, there no new things are;

In woman so perchance milde innocence A seldome comet is, but active good 10 A miracle, which reason scapes, and sense; For, Art and Nature this in them withstood.

As such a starre, the _Magi_ led to view The manger-cradled infant, God below: By vertues beames by fame deriv'd from you, 15 May apt soules, and the worst may, vertue know.

If the worlds age, and death be argued well By the Sunnes fall, which now towards earth doth bend, Then we might feare that vertue, since she fell So low as woman, should be neare her end. 20

But she's not stoop'd, but rais'd; exil'd by men She fled to heaven, that's heavenly things, that's you; She was in all men, thinly scatter'd then, But now amass'd, contracted in a few.

She guilded us: But you are gold, and Shee; 25 Us she inform'd, but transubstantiates you; Soft dispositions which ductile bee, Elixarlike, she makes not cleane, but new.

Though you a wifes and mothers name retaine, 'Tis not as woman, for all are not soe, 30 But vertue having made you vertue,'is faine T'adhere in these names, her and you to show,

Else, being alike pure, wee should neither see; As, water being into ayre rarify'd, Neither appeare, till in one cloud they bee, 35 So, for our sakes you do low names abide;

Taught by great constellations, which being fram'd, Of the most starres, take low names, _Crab_ and _Bull_, When single planets by the _Gods_ are nam'd, You covet not great names, of great things full. 40

So you, as woman, one doth comprehend, And in the vaile of kindred others see; To some ye are reveal'd, as in a friend, And as a vertuous Prince farre off, to mee.

To whom, because from you all vertues flow, 45 And 'tis not none, to dare contemplate you, I, which doe so, as your true subject owe Some tribute for that, so these lines are due.

If you can thinke these flatteries, they are, For then your judgement is below my praise, 50 If they were so, oft, flatteries worke as farre, As Counsels, and as farre th'endeavour raise.

So my ill reaching you might there grow good, But I remaine a poyson'd fountaine still; But not your beauty, vertue, knowledge, blood 55 Are more above all flattery, then my will.

And if I flatter any,'tis not you But my owne judgement, who did long agoe Pronounce, that all these praises should be true, And vertue should your beauty,'and birth outgrow. 60

Now that my prophesies are all fulfill'd, Rather then God should not be honour'd too, And all these gifts confess'd, which hee instill'd, Your selfe were bound to say that which I doe.

So I, but your Recorder am in this, 65 Or mouth, or Speaker of the universe, A ministeriall Notary, for'tis Not I, but you and fame, that make this verse;

I was your Prophet in your yonger dayes, And now your Chaplaine, God in you to praise. 70

[To the _&c._ _1633-69_, _O'F:_ To the C. of H. _N_, _TCD_]

[1 image;] image, _1633_

mans] man _1650-69_]

[9 woman] women _1669_]

[13 the] which _1633_

_Magi_] Magis _N_, _O'F_, _TCD:_ _compare p._ 243, _l._ 390]

[14 below: _Ed:_ below. _1633-69_]

[15 beames by ... you, _1633:_ beames (by ... you) _1633-69_]

[16 may, _Ed:_ may _1633-69_]

[22 you; _Ed:_ you, _1633-69_]

[24 amass'd, _1633_, _O'F:_ a masse _1635-69_, _N_, _TCD_]

[25-6 But you are gold, and Shee; ... transubstantiates you; _Ed:_ But you are gold, and Shee, ... transubstantiates you, _1633:_

but you are gold; and she, Informed us, but transubstantiates you,

_1635-69_, _Chambers_ (_but no comma after_ and she _and colon or full stop after_ you _1650-69_, _Chambers_)]

[33 see; _Ed:_ see, _1633-69_]

[37-9 (which being ... are nam'd) _1635-69_]

[42 vaile] vale _1669_]

[43 ye _1633:_ you _1635-69_]

[47 doe so, _1635-69_, _O'F:_ doe _N_, _TCD:_ to you _1633_]

[48 due.] due, _1633_]

[55 But _1633_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCD:_ And _1635-69_, _Chambers_]

[64 that] thar _1633_]

[66 or Speaker _1633:_ and Speaker _1635-69_]

[67 Notary,] notary, _1633_]

To M^r _T. W._

All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire, Then hath or shall enkindle any spirit, I lov'd what nature gave thee, but this merit Of wit and Art I love not but admire; Who have before or shall write after thee, 5 Their workes, though toughly laboured, will bee Like infancie or age to mans firme stay, Or earely and late twilights to mid-day.

Men say, and truly, that they better be Which be envyed then pittied: therefore I, 10 Because I wish thee best, doe thee envie: O wouldst thou, by like reason, pitty mee! But care not for mee: I, that ever was In Natures, and in Fortunes gifts, alas, (Before thy grace got in the Muses Schoole 15 A monster and a begger,) am now a foole.

Oh how I grieve, that late borne modesty Hath got such root in easie waxen hearts, That men may not themselves, their owne good parts Extoll, without suspect of surquedrie, 20 For, but thy selfe, no subject can be found Worthy thy quill, nor any quill resound Thy worth but thine: how good it were to see A Poëm in thy praise, and writ by thee.

Now if this song be too'harsh for rime, yet, as 25 The Painters bad god made a good devill, 'Twill be good prose, although the verse be evill, If thou forget the rime as thou dost passe. Then write, that I may follow, and so bee Thy debter, thy'eccho, thy foyle, thy zanee. 30 I shall be thought, if mine like thine I shape, All the worlds Lyon, though I be thy Ape.

[To M^r T. W.: _P_, _S_, _W:_ To M. I. W. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ A Letter. To M^r T. W. _O'F:_ Ad amicum. _S96:_ _no title_, _B_, _Cy_]

[1 more full] and full _1669_]

[2 any spirit, _1633_, _A18_, _Cy_, _N_, _P_, _TC_, _W:_ my dull spirit, _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _S_]

[3 this merit _1633_, _A18_, _Cy_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TC_, _W:_ thy merit _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _Chambers_]

[11 thee ... thee] the ... the _1669_]

[12 mee! _Ed:_ mee. _W:_ mee, _1633-69_]

[13 mee: _Ed:_ mee, _1633-69_

ever was] never was _B_, _P_, _S96_]

[14-16

In Natures, and in Fortunes gifts, alas, (Before ... and a begger,)

_Ed:_

In Natures, and in fortunes gifts, (alas, Before thy grace got in the Muses Schoole) A monster and a begger,

_1633_ (_some copies:_ _others read_ 15 Before by thy grace _&c._, _which is also the Grolier conjecture_), _A18_, _Cy_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TC_, _W_ (_but W and some of the other MSS. have no brackets_):

In Natures, and in fortunes gifts, alas, (But for thy grace got in the Muses Schoole) A Monster and a beggar,

_1635-69_, _O'F_, _Chambers_

In fortunes, nor (or _S96_) in natures gifts alas, But by thy grace, _&c._

_B_, _S96_. _See note_]

[16 am now a foole. _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _W:_ am a foole. _1633-69_, _A18_, _B_, _N_, _TC_]

[23 worth _1669_, _B_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _W:_ worke _1633-54_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[27 evill, _W:_ evill. _1633-69_, _Chambers_]

[28 passe. _W:_ passe, _1633-69_, _Chambers_]

[29 that I _1669_, _B_, _Cy_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _W:_ then I _1633-54_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[30 Thy debter, thy'eccho _1633-54:_ Thy eccho, thy debtor _1669_

thy zanee.] and thy Zanee. _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[31 if ... shape] _brackets_ _1635-69_]

To M _T. W._

Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure Will give thee leave, to him, my pain and pleasure. I have given thee, and yet thou art too weake, Feete, and a reasoning soule and tongue to speake. Plead for me, and so by thine and my labour 5 I am thy Creator, thou my Saviour. Tell him, all questions, which men have defended Both of the place and paines of hell, are ended; And 'tis decreed our hell is but privation Of him, at least in this earths habitation: 10 And 'tis where I am, where in every street Infections follow, overtake, and meete: Live I or die, by you my love is sent, And you'are my pawnes, or else my Testament.

[To M^r T. W.: _O'F_, _W:_ To M. T. W. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[1 verse, _1669:_ verse _1633-54_]

[2 to him, my pain and pleasure. _W_, _and Chambers_ (_without comma_): to him; My pain, and pleasure _1633-69:_ to him. My pain and pleasure, _Grolier_]

[4 Feete, ... soule _W:_ _no comma_ _1633:_ Feete ... soule, _1635-69_]

[5-6 _These lines only in W_]

[9 our] that _W_]

[14 And you'are _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_, _W:_ You are _1635-69_, _O'F_

pawnes] _om. with space_, _W_]

To M^r _T. W._

Pregnant again with th'old twins Hope, and Feare, Oft have I askt for thee, both how and where Thou wert, and what my hopes of letters were;

As in our streets sly beggers narrowly Watch motions of the givers hand and eye, 5 And evermore conceive some hope thereby.

And now thy Almes is given, thy letter'is read, The body risen againe, the which was dead, And thy poore starveling bountifully fed.

After this banquet my Soule doth say grace, 10 And praise thee for'it, and zealously imbrace Thy love; though I thinke thy love in this case To be as gluttons, which say 'midst their meat, They love that best of which they most do eat.

[To M^r T. W. _O'F_, _W:_ To M. T. W. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[5 Watch] Marke _W_

and eye, _A18_, _A23_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_, _W:_ or eye, _1633-69_]

[12 love; _Ed:_ love, _1633-69_]

To M^r _T. W._

At once, from hence, my lines and I depart, I to my soft still walks, they to my Heart; I to the Nurse, they to the child of Art;

Yet as a firme house, though the Carpenter Perish, doth stand: As an Embassadour 5 Lyes safe, how e'r his king be in danger:

So, though I languish, prest with Melancholy, My verse, the strict Map of my misery, Shall live to see that, for whose want I dye.

Therefore I envie them, and doe repent, 10 That from unhappy mee, things happy'are sent; Yet as a Picture, or bare Sacrament, Accept these lines, and if in them there be Merit of love, bestow that love on mee.

[To M^r T. W. _W:_ An Old Letter. _D_, _H49:_ A Letter. _S96:_ Letter. _O'F:_ _no heading_, _and following the preceding without any interval_, _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ Incerto. _1635-69_]

[5 As _W:_ as _1633-69_]

[7 Melancholy] Malancholy _1633_]

[14 of love,] of love _1633_]

To M^r _R. W._

Zealously my Muse doth salute all thee, Enquiring of that mistique trinitee Whereof thou,'and all to whom heavens do infuse Like fyer, are made; thy body, mind, and Muse. Dost thou recover sicknes, or prevent? 5 Or is thy Mind travail'd with discontent? Or art thou parted from the world and mee, In a good skorn of the worlds vanitee? Or is thy devout Muse retyr'd to sing Vpon her tender Elegiaque string? 10 Our Minds part not, joyne then thy Muse with myne, For myne is barren thus devorc'd from thyne.

[To M^r R. W. _A23_, _W:_ _first printed in Gosse's_ Life and Letters of John Donne, _&c._, 1899]

[1 thee,] thee _W_]

To M^r _R. W._

Mvse not that by thy mind thy body is led: For by thy mind, my mind's distempered. So thy Care lives long, for I bearing part It eates not only thyne, but my swolne hart. And when it gives us intermission 5 We take new harts for it to feede upon. But as a Lay Mans Genius doth controule Body and mind; the Muse beeing the Soules Soule Of Poets, that methinks should ease our anguish, Although our bodyes wither and minds languish. 10 Wright then, that my griefes which thine got may bee Cured by thy charming soveraigne melodee.

[M^r R. W. _A23_, _W:_ _printed here for the first time_]

To M^r _C. B._

Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine, Urg'd by this unexcusable occasion, Thee and the Saint of his affection Leaving behinde, doth of both wants complaine; And let the love I beare to both sustaine 5 No blott nor maime by this division, Strong is this love which ties our hearts in one, And strong that love pursu'd with amorous paine; But though besides thy selfe I leave behind Heavens liberall, and earths thrice-fairer Sunne, 10 Going to where sterne winter aye doth wonne, Yet, loves hot fires, which martyr my sad minde, Doe send forth scalding sighes, which have the Art To melt all Ice, but that which walls her heart.

[To M^r C. B.: _A23_, _W:_ To M. C. B. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[9 thy self] my self _1669_]

[10 liberall,] liberall _1633_

earths _1633_, _1669_, _A18_, _A23_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_, _W:_ the _1635-54_, _Chambers_

thrice fairer _A23_, _W:_ thrice-faire _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[11 sterne _1633_, _A18_, _A23_, _N_, _TC_, _W:_ sterv'd _1633-69_, _O'F_]

[13 forth] out _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

To M^r _E. G._

Even as lame things thirst their perfection, so The slimy rimes bred in our vale below, Bearing with them much of my love and hart, Fly unto that Parnassus, where thou art. There thou oreseest London: Here I have beene, 5 By staying in London, too much overseene. Now pleasures dearth our City doth posses, Our Theaters are fill'd with emptines; As lancke and thin is every street and way As a woman deliver'd yesterday. 10 Nothing whereat to laugh my spleen espyes But bearbaitings or Law exercise. Therefore I'le leave it, and in the Country strive Pleasure, now fled from London, to retrive. Do thou so too: and fill not like a Bee 15 Thy thighs with hony, but as plenteously As Russian Marchants, thy selfes whole vessell load, And then at Winter retaile it here abroad. Blesse us with Suffolks sweets; and as it is Thy garden, make thy hive and warehouse this. 20

[To M^r E. G. _W:_ _first printed in Gosse's_ Life and Letters of John Donne, _&c._ 1899]

[5-6 beene, ... London,] _no commas_, _W_]

[6 staying] staing _W_]

[7 dearth] dirth _W_]

[7-8 posses, ... emptines;] posses ... emptines. _W_]

To M^r _R. W._

If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be, Seeme, when thou read'st these lines, to dreame of me, Never did Morpheus nor his brother weare Shapes soe like those Shapes, whom they would appeare, As this my letter is like me, for it 5 Hath my name, words, hand, feet, heart, minde and wit; It is my deed of gift of mee to thee, It is my Will, my selfe the Legacie. So thy retyrings I love, yea envie, Bred in thee by a wise melancholy, 10 That I rejoyce, that unto where thou art, Though I stay here, I can thus send my heart, As kindly'as any enamored Patient His Picture to his absent Love hath sent.

All newes I thinke sooner reach thee then mee; 15 Havens are Heavens, and Ships wing'd Angels be, The which both Gospell, and sterne threatnings bring; Guyanaes harvest is nip'd in the spring, I feare; And with us (me thinkes) Fate deales so As with the Jewes guide God did; he did show 20 Him the rich land, but bar'd his entry in: Oh, slownes is our punishment and sinne. Perchance, these Spanish businesse being done, Which as the Earth betweene the Moone and Sun Eclipse the light which Guyana would give, 25 Our discontinued hopes we shall retrive: But if (as all th'All must) hopes smoake away, Is not Almightie Vertue'an India?

If men be worlds, there is in every one Some thing to answere in some proportion 30 All the worlds riches: And in good men, this, Vertue, our formes forme and our soules soule, is.

[To M^r R. W. _A18_, _A23_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W:_ To M. R. W. _1633-69:_ _no breaks_, _W:__ two stanzas of fourteen lines and a quatrain_, _1633:_ _twenty-eight lines continuous and a quatrain_, _1633-69_]

[3 brother _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ brethren _W_]

[6 hand,] hands _O'F_, _TC_]

[21 in: _1650-69_, _W:_ in, _1633-39_]

[22 Oh, _A23_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ Ah, _W:_ Our _1633-69_

sinne. _W:_ sinne; _1633-69_]

[23 businesse _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ busnesses _W:_ businesses _1635-69_

done] donne _W_]

[27 all th'All _W:_ All th'All _1633-69_]

[31 men, this, _Ed:_ men, this _1633-69_]

[32 soules soule, is. _Chambers:_ soules soule is. _1633-69_]

To M^r _R. W._

Kindly I envy thy songs perfection Built of all th'elements as our bodyes are: That Litle of earth that is in it, is a faire Delicious garden where all sweetes are sowne. In it is cherishing fyer which dryes in mee 5 Griefe which did drowne me: and halfe quench'd by it Are satirique fyres which urg'd me to have writt In skorne of all: for now I admyre thee. And as Ayre doth fullfill the hollownes Of rotten walls; so it myne emptines, 10 Where tost and mov'd it did beget this sound Which as a lame Eccho of thyne doth rebound. Oh, I was dead; but since thy song new Life did give, I recreated, even by thy creature, live.

[To M^r R. W. _W:_ _published here for the first time_]

[6 which] w^{ch} _W_, _and so always_]

[10 emptines,] emptines. _W_]

[13-14 Oh, ... give, ... recreated, ... creature,] _no commas_, _W_]

To M^r _S. B._

O Thou which to search out the secret parts Of the India, or rather Paradise Of knowledge, hast with courage and advise Lately launch'd into the vast Sea of Arts, Disdaine not in thy constant travailing 5 To doe as other Voyagers, and make Some turnes into lesse Creekes, and wisely take Fresh water at the Heliconian spring; I sing not, Siren like, to tempt; for I Am harsh; nor as those Scismatiques with you, 10 Which draw all wits of good hope to their crew; But seeing in you bright sparkes of Poetry, I, though I brought no fuell, had desire With these Articulate blasts to blow the fire.

[To M^r S. B. _O'F:_ To M. S. B. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W_]

[10 harsh; _1650-69:_ harsh, _1633-39_]

[12 seeing] seing _1633:_ seene _TCD_, _W:_ seeme _TCC_]

[13 I, though] I thought _1650-54_

had] but _1650-54_]

To M^r _I. L._

Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart Which with thy name begins, since their depart, Whether in the English Provinces they be, Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie, There's none that sometimes greets us not, and yet 5 Your Trent is Lethe; that past, us you forget. You doe not duties of Societies, If from the'embrace of a lov'd wife you rise, View your fat Beasts, stretch'd Barnes, and labour'd fields, Eate, play, ryde, take all joyes which all day yeelds, 10 And then againe to your embracements goe: Some houres on us your frends, and some bestow Upon your Muse, else both wee shall repent, I that my love, she that her guifts on you are spent.

[To M^r I. L. _W:_ To M. I. L. _1633-69:_ To M. I. L. _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ To M^r T. L. _O'F_]

[5 sometimes] sometime _1635-39_, _Chambers_]

[6 Lethe; _W:_ Lethe', _1633-69_

forget. _1639-69_, _W:_ forget, _1633-35_]

[13 your] thy _W_]

[14 you] thee _W_

spent.] spent _1633_]

To M^r _B. B._

Is not thy sacred hunger of science Yet satisfy'd? Is not thy braines rich hive Fulfil'd with hony which thou dost derive From the Arts spirits and their Quintessence? Then weane thy selfe at last, and thee withdraw 5 From Cambridge thy old nurse, and, as the rest, Here toughly chew, and sturdily digest Th'immense vast volumes of our common law; And begin soone, lest my griefe grieve thee too, Which is, that that which I should have begun 10 In my youthes morning, now late must be done; And I as Giddy Travellers must doe, Which stray or sleepe all day, and having lost Light and strength, darke and tir'd must then ride post.

If thou unto thy Muse be marryed, 15 Embrace her ever, ever multiply, Be far from me that strange Adulterie To tempt thee and procure her widowhed. My Muse, (for I had one,) because I'am cold, Divorc'd her selfe: the cause being in me, 20 That I can take no new in Bigamye, Not my will only but power doth withhold. Hence comes it, that these Rymes which never had Mother, want matter, and they only have A little forme, the which their Father gave; 25 They are prophane, imperfect, oh, too bad To be counted Children of Poetry Except confirm'd and Bishoped by thee.

[To M^r B. B. _O'F_, _W:_ To M. B. B. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[12 I ... Travellers _1650-69:_ I, ... Travellers, _1633-39_]

[13 stray] stay _W:_ _compare_ Sat. III. 78]

[16 ever, ever multiply, _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ still: encrease and multiply; _W_]

[18 widowhed. _W:_ widdowhood, _1633-39:_ widdowhood; _1650-69_]

[19 Muse, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_, _W:_ nurse, _1633-69_]

[20 selfe: _W:_ selfe, _1633-69_

in me, _1633-69:_ in me; _Grolier:_ in me. _Chambers_. _See note_]

To M^r _I. L._

Blest are your North parts, for all this long time My Sun is with you, cold and darke'is our Clime: Heavens Sun, which staid so long from us this yeare, Staid in your North (I thinke) for she was there, And hether by kinde nature drawne from thence, 5 Here rages, chafes, and threatens pestilence; Yet I, as long as shee from hence doth staie, Thinke this no South, no Sommer, nor no day. With thee my kinde and unkinde heart is run, There sacrifice it to that beauteous Sun: 10 And since thou art in Paradise and need'st crave No joyes addition, helpe thy friend to save. So may thy pastures with their flowery feasts, As suddenly as Lard, fat thy leane beasts; So may thy woods oft poll'd, yet ever weare 15 A greene, and when thee list, a golden haire; So may all thy sheepe bring forth Twins; and so In chace and race may thy horse all out goe; So may thy love and courage ne'r be cold; Thy Sonne ne'r Ward; Thy lov'd wife ne'r seem old; But maist thou wish great things, and them attaine, 21 As thou telst her, and none but her, my paine.

[To M^r I. L. _Ed:_ To M. I. L. _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W:_ To M^r T. L. _O'F:_ To M. I. P. _1633-69_]

[6 rages, chafes, _Ed:_ rages chafes _1633-39:_ rages, chafes _1650-69:_ rages, burnes, _W_]

[11-12 _these lines from W: they have not previously been printed_]

[16 when thee list, _Ed:_ when thee list _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ (when she list) _1635-69_, _O'F:_ when thou wilt _W_]

[20 lov'd wife] fair wife _W_]

[22 her, ... her, _Ed:_ her ... her _1633:_ her, ... her _1635-69_]

To Sir _H. W._ at his going Ambassador to _Venice_.

After those reverend papers, whose soule is Our good and great Kings lov'd hand and fear'd name, By which to you he derives much of his, And (how he may) makes you almost the same,

A Taper of his Torch, a copie writ 5 From his Originall, and a faire beame Of the same warme, and dazeling Sun, though it Must in another Sphere his vertue streame:

After those learned papers which your hand Hath stor'd with notes of use and pleasure too, 10 From which rich treasury you may command Fit matter whether you will write or doe:

After those loving papers, where friends tend With glad griefe, to your Sea-ward steps, farewel, Which thicken on you now, as prayers ascend 15 To heaven in troupes at'a good mans passing bell:

Admit this honest paper, and allow It such an audience as your selfe would aske; What you must say at Venice this meanes now, And hath for nature, what you have for taske: 20

To sweare much love, not to be chang'd before Honour alone will to your fortune fit; Nor shall I then honour your forture, more Then I have done your honour wanting it.

But'tis an easier load (though both oppresse) 25 To want, then governe greatnesse, for wee are In that, our owne and onely business, In this, wee must for others vices care;

'Tis therefore well your spirits now are plac'd In their last Furnace, in activity; 30 Which fits them (Schooles and Courts and Warres o'rpast) To touch and test in any best degree.

For mee, (if there be such a thing as I) Fortune (if there be such a thing as thee) Spies that I beare so well her tyranny, 35 That she thinks nothing else so fit for mee;

But though she part us, to heare my oft prayers For your increase, God is as neere mee here; And to send you what I shall begge, his staires In length and ease are alike every where. 40

[To Sir H. W. at his _&c._ _1633-54:_ To Sir Henry Wotton, at his _&c._ _1669_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ _printed in Walton's_ Life of Sir Henry Wotton, 1670, _as a_ 'letter, sent by him to Sir _Henry Wotton_, the morning before he left _England_', _i.e. July 13 (O.S.), 1604_]

[10 pleasure _1635-69_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_, _Walton:_ pleasures _1633_]

[13 where _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ which _1635-69_, _O'F_, _Walton_]

[16 in troupes] on troops _Walton_]

[19 must ... meanes] would ... sayes _Walton_]

[20 hath] has _Walton_

taske: _Ed:_ taske. _1633-69_]

[21 not] nor _Walton_]

[24 honour wanting it _1633:_ noble-wanting-wit. _1635-69_, _O'F:_ honour-wanting-wit. _Walton:_ noble wanting it. _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[31 Warres _Ed:_ warres _1633-69:_ tents _Burley MS._]

[32 test] tast _1669 and Walton_]

[35 Spies] Finds _Walton_]

To M^rs _M. H._

Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne With all those sonnes whom my braine did create, At lest lye hid with mee, till thou returne To rags againe, which is thy native state.

What though thou have enough unworthinesse 5 To come unto great place as others doe, That's much; emboldens, pulls, thrusts I confesse, But'tis not all; Thou should'st be wicked too.

And, that thou canst not learne, or not of mee; Yet thou wilt goe? Goe, since thou goest to her 10 Who lacks but faults to be a Prince, for shee, Truth, whom they dare not pardon, dares preferre.

But when thou com'st to that perplexing eye Which equally claimes _love_ and _reverence_, Thou wilt not long dispute it, thou wilt die; 15 And, having little now, have then no sense.

Yet when her warme redeeming hand, which is A miracle; and made such to worke more, Doth touch thee (saples leafe) thou grow'st by this Her creature; glorify'd more then before. 20

Then as a mother which delights to heare Her early child mis-speake halfe uttered words, Or, because majesty doth never feare Ill or bold speech, she Audience affords.

And then, cold speechlesse wretch, thou diest againe, 25 And wisely; what discourse is left for thee? For, speech of ill, and her, thou must abstaine, And is there any good which is not shee?

Yet maist thou praise her servants, though not her, And wit, and vertue,'and honour her attend, 30 And since they'are but her cloathes, thou shalt not erre, If thou her shape and beauty'and grace commend.

Who knowes thy destiny? when thou hast done, Perchance her Cabinet may harbour thee, Whither all noble ambitious wits doe runne, 35 A nest almost as full of Good as shee.

When thou art there, if any, whom wee know, Were sav'd before, and did that heaven partake, When she revolves his papers, marke what show Of favour, she alone, to them doth make. 40

Marke, if to get them, she o'r skip the rest, Marke, if shee read them twice, or kisse the name; Marke, if she doe the same that they protest, Marke, if she marke whether her woman came.

Marke, if slight things be'objected, and o'r blowne, 45 Marke, if her oathes against him be not still Reserv'd, and that shee grieves she's not her owne, And chides the doctrine that denies Freewill.

I bid thee not doe this to be my spie; Nor to make my selfe her familiar; 50 But so much I doe love her choyce, that I Would faine love him that shall be lov'd of her.

[To M^rs M. H. _O'F:_ To M. M. H. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ _no title_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _P:_ Elegie. _S96_]

[2 sonnes] Sunnes _B_, _S96_

my _1633:_ thy _1635-69:_ _Chambers attributes_ thy _to 1633_]

[3 returne] returne. _1633_]

[7 That's much; emboldens, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ That's much, emboldens, _1633-54:_ That's much emboldness, _1669:_ That's much, it emboldens, _B_, _P_]

[8 all; Thou _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ all, thou _1633-69_]

[10 goe? Goe, _Ed:_ goe, Goe, _1633-69_]

[14 _reverence_, _Ed:_ _reverence_. _1633:_ _reverence:_ _1635-69_]

[22 mis-speake] mispeake _1633_]

[27 For, _1633:_ From _1635-69_, _and MSS_.

her, _Ed:_ her _1633-69_]

[31 erre, _1669:_ erre _1633-54_]

[40 she alone, _1633:_ she, alone, _1635-69_]

[41 get them, she o'r skip] get them, she do skip _A18_ (doth), _N_, _TC:_ get them, she skip oare _A25_, _C_, _O'F_ (skips): get to them, shee skipp _B_, _P_]

[44 whether _1633:_ whither _1635-69_]

[47 grieves _1633:_ grieve _1635-69_]

_To the Countesse of Bedford._

Honour is so sublime perfection, And so refinde; that when God was alone And creaturelesse at first, himselfe had none;

But as of the elements, these which wee tread, Produce all things with which wee'are joy'd or fed, 5 And, those are barren both above our head:

So from low persons doth all honour flow; Kings, whom they would have honoured, to us show, And but _direct_ our honour, not _bestow_.

For when from herbs the pure part must be wonne 10 From grosse, by Stilling, this is better done By despis'd dung, then by the fire or Sunne.

Care not then, Madame,'how low your praysers lye; In labourers balads oft more piety God findes, then in _Te Deums_ melodie. 15

And, ordinance rais'd on Towers, so many mile Send not their voice, nor last so long a while As fires from th'earths low vaults in _Sicil_ Isle.

Should I say I liv'd darker then were true, Your radiation can all clouds subdue; 20 But one,'tis best light to contemplate you.

You, for whose body God made better clay, Or tooke Soules stuffe such as shall late decay, Or such as needs small change at the last day.

This, as an Amber drop enwraps a Bee, 25 Covering discovers your quicke Soule; that we May in your through-shine front your hearts thoughts see.

You teach (though wee learne not) a thing unknowne To our late times, the use of specular stone, Through which all things within without were shown. 30

Of such were Temples; so and of such you are; _Beeing_ and _seeming_ is your equall care, And _vertues_ whole _summe_ is but _know_ and _dare_.

But as our Soules of growth and Soules of sense Have birthright of our reasons Soule, yet hence 35 They fly not from that, nor seeke presidence:

Natures first lesson, so, discretion, Must not grudge zeale a place, nor yet keepe none, Not banish it selfe, nor religion.

Discretion is a wisemans Soule, and so 40 Religion is a Christians, and you know How these are one; her _yea_, is not her _no_.

Nor may we hope to sodder still and knit These two, and dare to breake them; nor must wit Be colleague to religion, but be it. 45

In those poor types of God (round circles) so Religions tipes the peeclesse centers flow, And are in all the lines which all wayes goe.

If either ever wrought in you alone Or principally, then religion 50 Wrought your ends, and your wayes discretion.

Goe thither stil, goe the same way you went, Who so would change, do covet or repent; Neither can reach you, great and innocent.

[To the Countesse of Bedford. _1633-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _S96:_ To the Countess of B. _N_, _TCD_]

[10 part] parts _N_, _O'F_, _TCD_]

[12 or Sunne. _1633_, _B_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TCD:_ or Sun: _1669:_ of Sunne: _1635-54_, _Chambers_]

[13 praysers _N_, _O'F_, _TCD:_ prayers _S96:_ prayses _1633-69_]

[16 Towers,] Towers _1633_]

[20-1 subdue; But one, _Ed:_ subdue; But One _Chambers:_ subdue, But one, _1633-69:_ subdue But one; _Grolier and Grosart_. _See note_]

[26 Covering discovers] Coverings discover _1669_]

[27 your hearts thoughts _B_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TCD:_ our hearts thoughts _1633-69_. _See note_]

[31 so and of such _N_, _TCD:_ so and such _1633-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _S96_]

[33 is but to know and dare. _N_]

[36-7

They fly not from that, nor seeke presidence: Natures first lesson, so, discretion, _&c._

_1633-69_ (presidence. _1633_; precedence: _1669_)

They fly not from that, nor seek precedence, Natures first lesson; so discretion _&c._

_Chambers and Grolier_ (discretion, _Grolier_). _See note_]

[40-2] _These lines precede_ 34-9 _in_ _1635-69_, _B_, _N_, _S96_, _TCD:_ _om. O'F_]

[42 one; _Ed:_ one, _1633-69_ _yea, ... no_] _ital. Ed._]

[48 all wayes _1719:_ alwayes _1633-69_]

[50-1

'twas Religion, Yet you neglected not Discretion.

_S96_]

[53 do covet] doth covet _1669_, _O'F_, _S96_]

_To the Countesse of_ Bedford.

_Begun in France but never perfected._

Though I be _dead_, and buried, yet I have (Living in you,) Court enough in my grave, As oft as there I thinke my selfe to bee, So many resurrections waken mee. That thankfullnesse your favours have begot 5 In mee, embalmes mee, that I doe not rot. This season as 'tis Easter, as 'tis spring, Must both to growth and to confession bring My thoughts dispos'd unto your influence; so, These verses bud, so these confessions grow. 10 First I confesse I have to others lent Your flock, and over prodigally spent Your treasure, for since I had never knowne Vertue or beautie, but as they are growne In you, I should not thinke or say they shine, 15 (So as I have) in any other Mine. Next I confesse this my confession, For, 'tis some fault thus much to touch upon Your praise to you, where half rights seeme too much, And make your minds sincere complexion blush. 20 Next I confesse my'impenitence, for I Can scarce repent my first fault, since thereby Remote low Spirits, which shall ne'r read you, May in lesse lessons finde enough to doe, By studying copies, not Originals, 25 _Desunt cætera._

[To the Countesse _&c._ _1633-69_ (_following in 1635-69_ That unripe side _&c._, _p._ 417, _and_ If her disdaine _&c._, _p._ 430), _O'F_]

[5 begot] forgot _1633 some copies_]

[6 embalmes mee, _Ed_: embalmes mee; _1633-69_

rot. _Ed_: rot; _1633-69_]

[9 influence; _Ed_: influence, _1633-69_]

[10 grow. _Ed_: grow; _1633-69_]

[14 or _1633-39_: and _1650-69_]

[16 Mine. _Ed:_ Mine; _1633-69_]

[18 upon _Ed:_ upon, _1633-69_]

_A Letter to the Lady_ Carey, _and M^rs_ Essex Riche, _From_ Amyens.

MADAME,

Here where by All All Saints invoked are, 'Twere too much schisme to be singular, And 'gainst a practise generall to warre.

Yet turning to Saincts, should my'humility To other Sainct then you directed bee, 5 That were to make my schisme, heresie.

Nor would I be a Convertite so cold, As not to tell it; If this be too bold, Pardons are in this market cheaply sold.

Where, because Faith is in too low degree, 10 I thought it some Apostleship in mee To speake things which by faith alone I see.

That is, of you, who are a firmament Of virtues, where no one is growne, or spent, They'are your materials, not your ornament. 15

Others whom wee call vertuous, are not so In their whole substance, but, their vertues grow But in their humours, and at seasons show.

For when through tastlesse flat humilitie In dow bak'd men some harmelessenes we see, 20 'Tis but his _flegme_ that's _Vertuous_, and not Hee:

Soe is the Blood sometimes; who ever ran To danger unimportun'd, he was than No better then a _sanguine_ Vertuous man.

So cloysterall men, who, in pretence of feare 25 All contributions to this life forbeare, Have Vertue in _Melancholy_, and only there.

Spirituall _Cholerique_ Crytiques, which in all Religions find faults, and forgive no fall, Have, through this zeale, Vertue but in their Gall. 30

We'are thus but parcel guilt; to Gold we'are growne When Vertue is our Soules complexion; Who knowes his Vertues name or place, hath none.

Vertue'is but aguish, when 'tis severall, By occasion wak'd, and circumstantiall. 35 True vertue is _Soule_, Alwaies in all deeds _All_.

This Vertue thinking to give dignitie To your soule, found there no infirmitie, For, your soule was as good Vertue, as shee;

Shee therefore wrought upon that part of you 40 Which is scarce lesse then soule, as she could do, And so hath made your beauty, Vertue too.

Hence comes it, that your Beauty wounds not hearts, As Others, with prophane and sensuall Darts, But as an influence, vertuous thoughts imparts. 45

But if such friends by the honor of your sight Grow capable of this so great a light, As to partake your vertues, and their might,

What must I thinke that influence must doe, Where it findes sympathie and matter too, 50 Vertue, and beauty of the same stuffe, as you?

Which is, your noble worthie sister, shee Of whom, if what in this my Extasie And revelation of you both I see,

I should write here, as in short Galleries 55 The Master at the end large glasses ties, So to present the roome twice to our eyes,

So I should give this letter length, and say That which I said of you; there is no way From either, but by the other, not to stray. 60

May therefore this be enough to testifie My true devotion, free from flattery; He that beleeves himselfe, doth never lie.

[A Letter to _&c._ _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ To the Lady Carey and her Sister M^rs Essex Rich. From Amiens. _O'F:_ To the Lady Co: of C. _N_, _TCD:_ To the Ladie Carey. _or_ A Letter to the Ladie Carey. _B_, _Cy_, _S96:_ _no title_, _P:_ To M^rs Essex Rich and her sister frô Amiens. _M_]

[13 who are] who is _1633_]

[19 humilitie _1633-54_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TCD:_ humidity _1669_, _Chambers_]

[26 contributions] contribution _B_, _D_, _N_, _TCD_]

[30 this zeale, _1635-69_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TCD:_ their zeale, _1633_, _Lec_]

[31 Gold] Golds _1633 some copies_]

[33 aguish,] anguish, _1650-54_]

[57 our eyes,] your eyes, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _P_]

[60 by the] to the _1669_

other, _1669:_ other _1633-54_]

_To the Countesse of Salisbury._ August. 1614.

Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see What Heaven can doe, and what any Earth can be: Since now your beauty shines, now when the Sunne Growne stale, is to so low a value runne, That his disshevel'd beames and scattered fires 5 Serve but for Ladies Periwigs and Tyres In lovers Sonnets: you come to repaire Gods booke of creatures, teaching what is faire. Since now, when all is withered, shrunke, and dri'd, All Vertues ebb'd out to a dead low tyde, 10 All the worlds frame being crumbled into sand, Where every man thinks by himselfe to stand, Integritie, friendship, and confidence, (Ciments of greatnes) being vapor'd hence, And narrow man being fill'd with little shares, 15 Court, Citie, Church, are all shops of small-wares, All having blowne to sparkes their noble fire, And drawne their sound gold-ingot into wyre; All trying by a love of littlenesse To make abridgments, and to draw to lesse, 20 Even that nothing, which at first we were; Since in these times, your greatnesse doth appeare, And that we learne by it, that man to get Towards him that's infinite, must first be great. Since in an age so ill, as none is fit 25 So much as to accuse, much lesse mend it, (For who can judge, or witnesse of those times Where all alike are guiltie of the crimes?) Where he that would be good, is thought by all A monster, or at best fantasticall; 30 Since now you durst be good, and that I doe Discerne, by daring to contemplate you, That there may be degrees of faire, great, good, Through your light, largenesse, vertue understood: If in this sacrifice of mine, be showne 35 Any small sparke of these, call it your owne. And if things like these, have been said by mee Of others; call not that Idolatrie. For had God made man first, and man had seene The third daies fruits, and flowers, and various greene, 40 He might have said the best that he could say Of those faire creatures, which were made that day; And when next day he had admir'd the birth Of Sun, Moone, Stars, fairer then late-prais'd earth, Hee might have said the best that he could say, 45 And not be chid for praising yesterday; So though some things are not together true, As, that another is worthiest, and, that you: Yet, to say so, doth not condemne a man, If when he spoke them, they were both true than. 50 How faire a proofe of this, in our soule growes? Wee first have soules of growth, and sense, and those, When our last soule, our soule immortall came, Were swallowed into it, and have no name. Nor doth he injure those soules, which doth cast 55 The power and praise of both them, on the last; No more doe I wrong any; I adore The same things now, which I ador'd before, The subject chang'd, and measure; the same thing In a low constable, and in the King 60 I reverence; His power to work on mee: So did I humbly reverence each degree Of faire, great, good; but more, now I am come From having found their _walkes_, to find their _home_. And as I owe my first soules thankes, that they 65 For my last soule did fit and mould my clay, So am I debtor unto them, whose worth, Enabled me to profit, and take forth This new great lesson, thus to study you; Which none, not reading others, first, could doe. 70 Nor lacke I light to read this booke, though I In a darke Cave, yea in a Grave doe lie; For as your fellow Angells, so you doe Illustrate them who come to study you. The first whom we in Histories doe finde 75 To have profest all Arts, was one borne blinde: He lackt those eyes beasts have as well as wee, Not those, by which Angels are seene and see; So, though I'am borne without those eyes to live, Which fortune, who hath none her selfe, doth give, 80 Which are, fit meanes to see bright courts and you, Yet may I see you thus, as now I doe; I shall by that, all goodnesse have discern'd, And though I burne my librarie, be learn'd.

[To the Countesse _&c._ _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ To the Countess of Salisbury. _O'F:_ To the Countess of S. _N_, _TCD_]

[2 and what _1633_, _1669_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ what _1635-54_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCD_]

[16 Court,] Courts, _1669_]

[17 noble fire,] nobler fire, _O'F_]

[24 him] him, _1633_

that's _1650-69:_ thats _1633-39_]

[29-30 _Chambers includes in parenthesis_]

[30 fantasticall; _Ed:_ fantasticall: _1633-69_]

[34 light, largenesse,] lights largeness, _1669_]

[38 Idolatrie.] Adulterie: _N_, _TCD_]

[40 greene,] greene _1633_]

[42 day; _Ed:_ day: _1633-69_]

[46 yesterday; _Ed:_ yesterday: _1633-69_]

[54 name. _1633-39:_ name _1654-69_]

[57 any; I adore _1633_, _D_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD:_ any, if I adore _1635-69_, _O'F_ (if _being inserted_)]

[61 mee: _D_, _N_, _TCD:_ mee; _1633-69_]

[63 good; _Ed:_ good, _1633-69_]

[77-8 _om._ _D_, _H49_, _Lec_]

_To the Lady Bedford._

You that are she and you, that's double shee, In her dead face, halfe of your selfe shall see; Shee was the other part, for so they doe Which build them friendships, become one of two; So two, that but themselves no third can fit, 5 Which were to be so, when they were not yet; Twinnes, though their birth _Cusco_, and _Musco_ take, As divers starres one Constellation make; Pair'd like two eyes, have equall motion, so Both but one meanes to see, one way to goe. 10 Had you dy'd first, a carcasse shee had beene; And wee your rich Tombe in her face had seene; She like the Soule is gone, and you here stay, Not a live friend; but th'other halfe of clay. And since you act that part, As men say, here 15 Lies such a Prince, when but one part is there, And do all honour and devotion due Unto the whole, so wee all reverence you; For, such a friendship who would not adore In you, who are all what both were before, 20 Not all, as if some perished by this, But so, as all in you contracted is. As of this all, though many parts decay, The pure which elemented them shall stay; And though diffus'd, and spread in infinite, 25 Shall recollect, and in one All unite: So madame, as her Soule to heaven is fled, Her flesh rests in the earth, as in the bed; Her vertues do, as to their proper spheare, Returne to dwell with you, of whom they were: 30 As perfect motions are all circular, So they to you, their sea, whence lesse streames are. Shee was all spices, you all metalls; so In you two wee did both rich Indies know. And as no fire, nor rust can spend or waste 35 One dramme of gold, but what was first shall last, Though it bee forc'd in water, earth, salt, aire, Expans'd in infinite, none will impaire; So, to your selfe you may additions take, But nothing can you lesse, or changed make. 40 Seeke not in seeking new, to seeme to doubt, That you can match her, or not be without; But let some faithfull booke in her roome be, Yet but of _Iudith_ no such booke as shee.

[To the _&c._ _1635-69_, _O'F:_ Elegie to the Lady Bedford. _1633_, _Cy_, _H40_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TCD:_ Elegia Sexta. _S:_ _In 1633, Cy, H40, N, TCD it follows, in P precedes, the Funerall Elegy_ Death (_p._ 284), _to which it is apparently a covering letter:_ _In L74 it follows the_ Elegy on the Lady Marckham: _O'F places it among the_ Letters, _S among the_ Elegies]

[1 she and you,] she, and you _1633-69_, _Chambers_. _See note_]

[4 two;] the two; _1669_]

[6 yet; _Ed:_ yet _1633-39:_ yet. _1650-69_]

[8 make; _Ed:_ make, _1633-69_]

[10 goe. _Ed:_ goe; _1633-69_]

[13 stay,] stay _1633-35_

th'other] thother _1633_

clay. _Ed:_ clay; _1633-69_]

[16 there, _Ed:_ there; _1633-69_]

[17 honour] honour: _1633_

due] due; _1633_]

[20 were] was _1633_]

[22 as all in you] as in you all _O'F:_ that in you all _Cy_, _H40_, _L74_, _N_, _S_

is. _Ed:_ is; _1633-69_]

[28 the bed;] a bed; _Cy_, _H40_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _S:_ her bed; _P_]

[30 were:] were; _1633_]

[32 are.] are; _1633_]

[34 know.] know; _1633_]

[41 doubt, _1633:_ doubt; _1635-69_]

[42 can] _twice in 1633_]

AN ANATOMIE OF THE WORLD.

_Wherein_,

By occasion of the untimely death of Mistris ELIZABETH DRVRY, the frailty and the decay of this whole World is represented.

* * * * *

The first Anniversary.

* * * * *

_To the praise of the dead_,

_and the_ ANATOMIE.

Well dy'd the World, that we might live to see This world of wit, in his Anatomie: No evill wants his good; so wilder heires Bedew their Fathers Tombes, with forced teares, Whose state requites their losse: whiles thus we gain, 5 Well may wee walke in blacks, but not complaine. Yet how can I consent the world is dead While this Muse lives? which in his spirits stead Seemes to informe a World; and bids it bee, In spight of losse or fraile mortalitie? 10 And thou the subject of this welborne thought, Thrice noble maid, couldst not have found nor sought A fitter time to yeeld to thy sad Fate, Then whiles this spirit lives, that can relate Thy worth so well to our last Nephews eyne, 15 That they shall wonder both at his and thine: Admired match! where strives in mutuall grace The cunning pencill, and the comely face: A taske which thy faire goodnesse made too much For the bold pride of vulgar pens to touch; 20 Enough is us to praise them that praise thee, And say, that but enough those prayses bee, Which hadst thou liv'd, had hid their fearfull head From th'angry checkings of thy modest red: Death barres reward and shame: when envy's gone, 25 And gaine, 'tis safe to give the dead their owne. As then the wise Egyptians wont to lay More on their Tombes, then houses: these of clay, But those of brasse, or marble were: so wee Give more unto thy Ghost, then unto thee. 30 Yet what wee give to thee, thou gav'st to us, And may'st but thanke thy selfe, for being thus: Yet what thou gav'st, and wert, O happy maid, Thy grace profest all due, where 'tis repayd. So these high songs that to thee suited bin 35 Serve but to sound thy Makers praise, in thine, Which thy deare soule as sweetly sings to him Amid the Quire of Saints, and Seraphim, As any Angels tongue can sing of thee; The subjects differ, though the skill agree: 40 For as by infant-yeares men judge of age, Thy early love, thy vertues, did presage What an high part thou bear'st in those best songs, Whereto no burden, nor no end belongs. Sing on thou virgin Soule, whose lossfull gaine 45 Thy lovesick parents have bewail'd in vaine; Never may thy Name be in our songs forgot, Till wee shall sing thy ditty and thy note.

[An Anatomie _&c._ _1611-33:_ Anatomie _&c._ _1635-69_

The first Anniversary. _1612-69:_ _om. 1611_. _See note_

To the praise of the dead _&c._ _1611-69_ (Dead _1611_)]

[8 While] Whiles _1639-69_]

[21 is] it is _1699_]

[25 shame: _1611_, _1612-25:_ shame, _1633-69_]

[26 gaine, _1633-69:_ gaine; _1612-25_]

[34 where] were _1621-25_]

[35 bin _1633-39:_ bine _1611:_ bine, _1612-21:_ bine. _1625:_ bin, _1650-69_]

[36 praise, in thine, _1611_, _1612-25:_ praise and thine, _1633-69_]

[38 Quire _1611_, _1612-25:_ quire _1633-69_]

[39 tongue _1611_, _1612-39:_ tongues _1650-69_]

[41 infant-yeares _1611_, _1621-25:_ infant yeares _1633-69_]

[42 vertues, _1611_, _1612-25:_ vertues _1633-69_

presage _1612-25:_ presage, _1633-69_]

[43 What an hie ... best songs, _1611-12:_ What hie ... best songs _1621-25:_ What high ... best of songs, _1633-69_]

[47 our _1611_, _1612-54:_ _om. 1669_

forgot,] forgot. _1621-25_]

An Anatomy of the World.

_The first Anniversary._

[Sidenote: _The entrie into the worke._] When that rich Soule which to her heaven is gone, Whom all do celebrate, who know they have one, (For who is sure he hath a Soule, unlesse It see, and judge, and follow worthinesse, And by Deedes praise it? hee who doth not this, 5 May lodge an In-mate soule, but 'tis not his.) When that Queene ended here her progresse time, And, as t'her standing house to heaven did climbe, Where loath to make the Saints attend her long, She's now a part both of the Quire, and Song, 10 This World, in that great earthquake languished; For in a common bath of teares it bled, Which drew the strongest vitall spirits out: But succour'd then with a perplexed doubt, Whether the world did lose, or gaine in this, 15 (Because since now no other way there is, But goodnesse, to see her, whom all would see, All must endeavour to be good as shee,) This great consumption to a fever turn'd, And so the world had fits; it joy'd, it mourn'd; 20 And, as men thinke, that Agues physick are, And th'Ague being spent, give over care, So thou sicke World, mistak'st thy selfe to bee Well, when alas, thou'rt in a Lethargie. Her death did wound and tame thee than, and than 25 Thou might'st have better spar'd the Sunne, or Man. That wound was deep, but 'tis more misery, That thou hast lost thy sense and memory. 'Twas heavy then to heare thy voyce of mone, But this is worse, that thou art speechlesse growne. 30 Thou hast forgot thy name, thou hadst; thou wast Nothing but shee, and her thou hast o'rpast. For as a child kept from the Font, untill A prince, expected long, come to fulfill The ceremonies, thou unnam'd had'st laid, 35 Had not her comming, thee her Palace made: Her name defin'd thee, gave thee forme, and frame, And thou forgett'st to celebrate thy name. Some moneths she hath beene dead (but being dead, Measures of times are all determined) 40 But long she'ath beene away, long, long, yet none Offers to tell us who it is that's gone. But as in states doubtfull of future heires, When sicknesse without remedie empaires The present Prince, they're loth it should be said, 45 The Prince doth languish, or the Prince is dead: So mankinde feeling now a generall thaw, A strong example gone, equall to law, The Cyment which did faithfully compact, And glue all vertues, now resolv'd, and slack'd, 50 Thought it some blasphemy to say sh'was dead, Or that our weaknesse was discovered In that confession; therefore spoke no more Then tongues, the Soule being gone, the losse deplore. But though it be too late to succour thee, 55 Sicke World, yea, dead, yea putrified, since shee Thy'intrinsique balme, and thy preservative, Can never be renew'd, thou never live, I (since no man can make thee live) will try, What wee may gaine by thy Anatomy. 60 Her death hath taught us dearely, that thou art Corrupt and mortall in thy purest part. Let no man say, the world it selfe being dead, 'Tis labour lost to have discovered The worlds infirmities, since there is none 65 Alive to study this dissection; [Sidenote: _What life the world hath stil._] For there's a kinde of World remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill The world, be gone, yet in this last long night, Her Ghost doth walke; that is, a glimmering light, 70 A faint weake love of vertue, and of good, Reflects from her, on them which understood Her worth; and though she have shut in all day, The twilight of her memory doth stay; Which, from the carcasse of the old world, free, 75 Creates a new world, and new creatures bee Produc'd: the matter and the stuffe of this, Her vertue, and the forme our practice is: And though to be thus elemented, arme These creatures, from home-borne intrinsique harme, 80 (For all assum'd unto this dignitie, So many weedlesse Paradises bee, Which of themselves produce no venemous sinne, Except some forraine Serpent bring it in) Yet, because outward stormes the strongest breake, 85 And strength it selfe by confidence growes weake, This new world may be safer, being told [Sidenote: _The sicknesses of the World._] The dangers and diseases of the old: For with due temper men doe then forgoe, Or covet things, when they their true worth know. 90 [Sidenote: _Impossibility of health._] There is no health; Physitians say that wee, At best, enjoy but a neutralitie. And can there bee worse sicknesse, then to know That we are never well, nor can be so? Wee are borne ruinous: poore mothers cry, 95 That children come not right, nor orderly; Except they headlong come and fall upon An ominous precipitation. How witty's ruine! how importunate Upon mankinde! it labour'd to frustrate 100 Even Gods purpose; and made woman, sent For mans reliefe, cause of his languishment. They were to good ends, and they are so still, But accessory, and principall in ill; For that first marriage was our funerall: 105 One woman at one blow, then kill'd us all, And singly, one by one, they kill us now. We doe delightfully our selves allow To that consumption; and profusely blinde, Wee kill our selves to propagate our kinde. 110 And yet we do not that; we are not men: There is not now that mankinde, which was then, When as, the Sunne and man did seeme to strive, [Sidenote: _Shortnesse of life._] (Joynt tenants of the world) who should survive; When, Stagge, and Raven, and the long-liv'd tree, 115 Compar'd with man, dy'd in minoritie; When, if a slow pac'd starre had stolne away From the observers marking, he might stay Two or three hundred yeares to see't againe, And then make up his observation plaine; 120 When, as the age was long, the sise was great; Mans growth confess'd, and recompenc'd the meat; So spacious and large, that every Soule Did a faire Kingdome, and large Realme controule: And when the very stature, thus erect, 125 Did that soule a good way towards heaven direct. Where is this mankinde now? who lives to age, Fit to be made _Methusalem_ his page? Alas, we scarce live long enough to try Whether a true made clocke run right, or lie. 130 Old Grandsires talke of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children wee reserve to morrow. So short is life, that every peasant strives, In a torne house, or field, to have three lives. And as in lasting, so in length is man 135 [Sidenote: _Smalnesse of stature._] Contracted to an inch, who was a spanne; For had a man at first in forrests stray'd, Or shipwrack'd in the Sea, one would have laid A wager, that an Elephant, or Whale, That met him, would not hastily assaile 140 A thing so equall to him: now alas, The Fairies, and the Pigmies well may passe As credible; mankinde decayes so soone, We'are scarce our Fathers shadowes cast at noone: Onely death addes t'our length: nor are wee growne 145 In stature to be men, till we are none. But this were light, did our lesse volume hold All the old Text; or had wee chang'd to gold Their silver; or dispos'd into lesse glasse Spirits of vertue, which then scatter'd was. 150 But 'tis not so: w'are not retir'd, but dampt; And as our bodies, so our mindes are crampt: 'Tis shrinking, not close weaving that hath thus, In minde, and body both bedwarfed us. Wee seeme ambitious, Gods whole worke t'undoe; 155 Of nothing hee made us, and we strive too, To bring our selves to nothing backe; and wee Doe what wee can, to do't so soone as hee. With new diseases on our selves we warre, And with new Physicke, a worse Engin farre. 160 Thus man, this worlds Vice-Emperour, in whom All faculties, all graces are at home; And if in other creatures they appeare, They're but mans Ministers, and Legats there, To worke on their rebellions, and reduce 165 Them to Civility, and to mans use: This man, whom God did wooe, and loth t'attend Till man came up, did downe to man descend, This man, so great, that all that is, is his, Oh what a trifle, and poore thing he is! 170 If man were any thing, he's nothing now: Helpe, or at least some time to wast, allow T'his other wants, yet when he did depart With her whom we lament, hee lost his heart. She, of whom th'Ancients seem'd to prophesie, 175 When they call'd vertues by the name of _shee_; Shee in whom vertue was so much refin'd, That for Allay unto so pure a minde Shee tooke the weaker Sex; shee that could drive The poysonous tincture, and the staine of _Eve_, 180 Out of her thoughts, and deeds; and purifie All, by a true religious Alchymie; Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: when thou knowest this, Thou knowest how poore a trifling thing man is. And learn'st thus much by our Anatomie, 185 The heart being perish'd, no part can be free. And that except thou feed (not banquet) on The supernaturall food, Religion, Thy better Growth growes withered, and scant; Be more then man, or thou'rt lesse then an Ant. 190 Then, as mankinde, so is the worlds whole frame Quite out of joynt, almost created lame: For, before God had made up all the rest, Corruption entred, and deprav'd the best: It seis'd the Angels, and then first of all 195 The world did in her cradle take a fall, And turn'd her braines, and tooke a generall maime, Wronging each joynt of th'universall frame. The noblest part, man, felt it first; and than Both beasts and plants, curst in the curse of man. 200 [Sidenote: _Decay of nature in other parts._] So did the world from the first houre decay, That evening was beginning of the day, And now the Springs and Sommers which we see, Like sonnes of women after fiftie bee. And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, 205 The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it. And freely men confesse that this world's spent, When in the Planets, and the Firmament 210 They seeke so many new; they see that this Is crumbled out againe to his Atomies. 'Tis all in peeces, all cohaerence gone; All just supply, and all Relation: Prince, Subject, Father, Sonne, are things forgot, 215 For every man alone thinkes he hath got To be a Phœnix, and that then can bee None of that kinde, of which he is, but hee. This is the worlds condition now, and now She that should all parts to reunion bow, 220 She that had all Magnetique force alone, To draw, and fasten sundred parts in one; She whom wise nature had invented then When she observ'd that every sort of men Did in their voyage in this worlds Sea stray, 225 And needed a new compasse for their way; She that was best, and first originall Of all faire copies, and the generall Steward to Fate; she whose rich eyes, and brest Guilt the West Indies, and perfum'd the East; 230 Whose having breath'd in this world, did bestow Spice on those Iles, and bad them still smell so, And that rich Indie which doth gold interre, Is but as single money, coyn'd from her: She to whom this world must it selfe refer, 235 As Suburbs, or the Microcosme of her, Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: when thou knowst this, Thou knowst how lame a cripple this world is. And learn'st thus much by our Anatomy, That this worlds generall sickenesse doth not lie 240 In any humour, or one certaine part; But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart, Thou seest a Hectique feaver hath got hold Of the whole substance, not to be contrould, And that thou hast but one way, not t'admit 245 The worlds infection, to be none of it. For the worlds subtilst immateriall parts Feele this consuming wound, and ages darts. For the worlds beauty is decai'd, or gone, [Sidenote: _Disformity of parts._] Beauty, that's colour, and proportion. 250 We thinke the heavens enjoy their Sphericall, Their round proportion embracing all. But yet their various and perplexed course, Observ'd in divers ages, doth enforce Men to finde out so many Eccentrique parts, 255 Such divers downe-right lines, such overthwarts, As disproportion that pure forme: It teares The Firmament in eight and forty sheires, And in these Constellations then arise New starres, and old doe vanish from our eyes: 260 As though heav'n suffered earthquakes, peace or war, When new Towers rise, and old demolish't are. They have impal'd within a Zodiake The free-borne Sun, and keepe twelve Signes awake To watch his steps; the Goat and Crab controule, 265 And fright him backe, who else to either Pole (Did not these Tropiques fetter him) might runne: For his course is not round; nor can the Sunne Perfit a Circle, or maintaine his way One inch direct; but where he rose to-day 270 He comes no more, but with a couzening line, Steales by that point, and so is Serpentine: And seeming weary with his reeling thus, He meanes to sleepe, being now falne nearer us. So, of the Starres which boast that they doe runne 275 In Circle still, none ends where he begun. All their proportion's lame, it sinkes, it swels. For of Meridians, and Parallels, Man hath weav'd out a net, and this net throwne Upon the Heavens, and now they are his owne. 280 Loth to goe up the hill, or labour thus To goe to heaven, we make heaven come to us. We spur, we reine the starres, and in their race They're diversly content t'obey our pace. But keepes the earth her round proportion still? 285 Doth not a Tenarif, or higher Hill Rise so high like a Rocke, that one might thinke The floating Moone would shipwracke there, and sinke? Seas are so deepe, that Whales being strooke to day, Perchance to morrow, scarse at middle way 290 Of their wish'd journies end, the bottome, die. And men, to sound depths, so much line untie, As one might justly thinke, that there would rise At end thereof, one of th'Antipodies: If under all, a Vault infernall bee, 295 (Which sure is spacious, except that we Invent another torment, that there must Millions into a straight hot roome be thrust) Then solidnesse, and roundnesse have no place. Are these but warts, and pock-holes in the face 300 Of th'earth? Thinke so: but yet confesse, in this The worlds proportion disfigured is; [Sidenote: _Disorder in the world._] That those two legges whereon it doth rely, Reward and punishment are bent awry. And, Oh, it can no more be questioned, 305 That beauties best, proportion, is dead, Since even griefe it selfe, which now alone Is left us, is without proportion. Shee by whose lines proportion should bee Examin'd, measure of all Symmetree, 310 Whom had that Ancient seen, who thought soules made Of Harmony, he would at next have said That Harmony was shee, and thence infer, That soules were but Resultances from her, And did from her into our bodies goe, 315 As to our eyes, the formes from objects flow: Shee, who if those great Doctors truly said That the Arke to mans proportions was made, Had been a type for that, as that might be A type of her in this, that contrary 320 Both Elements, and Passions liv'd at peace In her, who caus'd all Civill war to cease. Shee, after whom, what forme so'er we see, Is discord, and rude incongruitie; Shee, shee is dead, shee's dead; when thou knowst this 325 Thou knowst how ugly a monster this world is: And learn'st thus much by our Anatomie, That here is nothing to enamour thee: And that, not only faults in inward parts, Corruptions in our braines, or in our hearts, 330 Poysoning the fountaines, whence our actions spring, Endanger us: but that if every thing Be not done fitly'and in proportion, To satisfie wise, and good lookers on, (Since most men be such as most thinke they bee) 335 They're lothsome too, by this Deformitee. For good, and well, must in our actions meete; Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. But beauties other second Element, Colour, and lustre now, is as neere spent. 340 And had the world his just proportion, Were it a ring still, yet the stone is gone. As a compassionate Turcoyse which doth tell By looking pale, the wearer is not well, As gold falls sicke being stung with Mercury, 345 All the worlds parts of such complexion bee. When nature was most busie, the first weeke, Swadling the new borne earth, God seem'd to like That she should sport her selfe sometimes, and play, To mingle, and vary colours every day: 350 And then, as though shee could not make inow, Himselfe his various Rainbow did allow. Sight is the noblest sense of any one, Yet sight hath only colour to feed on, And colour is decai'd: summers robe growes 355 Duskie, and like an oft dyed garment showes. Our blushing red, which us'd in cheekes to spred, Is inward sunke, and only our soules are red. Perchance the world might have recovered, If she whom we lament had not beene dead: 360 But shee, in whom all white, and red, and blew (Beauties ingredients) voluntary grew, As in an unvext Paradise; from whom Did all things verdure, and their lustre come, Whose composition was miraculous, 365 Being all colour, all Diaphanous, (For Ayre, and Fire but thick grosse bodies were, And liveliest stones but drowsie, and pale to her,) Shee, shee, is dead; shee's dead: when thou know'st this, Thou knowst how wan a Ghost this our world is: 370 And learn'st thus much by our Anatomie, That it should more affright, then pleasure thee. And that, since all faire colour then did sinke, 'Tis now but wicked vanitie, to thinke [Sidenote: _Weaknesse in the want of correspondence of heaven and earth._] To colour vicious deeds with good pretence, 375 Or with bought colors to illude mens sense. Nor in ought more this worlds decay appeares, Then that her influence the heav'n forbeares, Or that the Elements doe not feele this, The father, or the mother barren is. 380 The cloudes conceive not raine, or doe not powre, In the due birth time, downe the balmy showre; Th'Ayre doth not motherly sit on the earth, To hatch her seasons, and give all things birth; Spring-times were common cradles, but are tombes; 385 And false-conceptions fill the generall wombes; Th'Ayre showes such Meteors, as none can see, Not only what they meane, but what they bee; Earth such new wormes, as would have troubled much Th'Ægyptian _Mages_ to have made more such. 390 What Artist now dares boast that he can bring Heaven hither, or constellate any thing, So as the influence of those starres may bee Imprison'd in an Hearbe, or Charme, or Tree, And doe by touch, all which those stars could doe? 395 The art is lost, and correspondence too. For heaven gives little, and the earth takes lesse, And man least knowes their trade and purposes. If this commerce twixt heaven and earth were not Embarr'd, and all this traffique quite forgot, 400 She, for whose losse we have lamented thus, Would worke more fully, and pow'rfully on us: Since herbes, and roots, by dying lose not all, But they, yea Ashes too, are medicinall, Death could not quench her vertue so, but that 405 It would be (if not follow'd) wondred at: And all the world would be one dying Swan, To sing her funerall praise, and vanish than. But as some Serpents poyson hurteth not, Except it be from the live Serpent shot, 410 So doth her vertue need her here, to fit That unto us; shee working more then it. But shee, in whom to such maturity Vertue was growne, past growth, that it must die; She, from whose influence all Impressions came, 415 But, by Receivers impotencies, lame, Who, though she could not transubstantiate All states to gold, yet guilded every state, So that some Princes have some temperance; Some Counsellers some purpose to advance 420 The common profit; and some people have Some stay, no more then Kings should give, to crave; Some women have some taciturnity, Some nunneries some graines of chastitie. She that did thus much, and much more could doe, 425 But that our age was Iron, and rustie too, Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead; when thou knowst this, Thou knowst how drie a Cinder this world is. And learn'st thus much by our Anatomy, That 'tis in vaine to dew, or mollifie 430 It with thy teares, or sweat, or blood: nothing Is worth our travaile, griefe, or perishing, But those rich joyes, which did possesse her heart, Of which she's now partaker, and a part. [Sidenote: _Conclusion._] But as in cutting up a man that's dead, 435 The body will not last out, to have read On every part, and therefore men direct Their speech to parts, that are of most effect; So the worlds carcasse would not last, if I Were punctuall in this Anatomy; 440 Nor smels it well to hearers, if one tell Them their disease, who faine would think they're well. Here therefore be the end: And, blessed maid, Of whom is meant what ever hath been said, Or shall be spoken well by any tongue, 445 Whose name refines course lines, and makes prose song, Accept this tribute, and his first yeares rent, Who till his darke short tapers end be spent, As oft as thy feast sees this widowed earth, Will yearely celebrate thy second birth, 450 That is, thy death; for though the soule of man Be got when man is made, 'tis borne but than When man doth die; our body's as the wombe, And, as a Mid-wife, death directs it home. And you her creatures, whom she workes upon, 455 And have your last, and best concoction From her example, and her vertue, if you In reverence to her, do thinke it due, That no one should her praises thus rehearse, As matter fit for Chronicle, not verse; 460 Vouchsafe to call to minde that God did make A last, and lasting'st peece, a song. He spake To _Moses_ to deliver unto all, That song, because hee knew they would let fall The Law, the Prophets, and the History, 465 But keepe the song still in their memory: Such an opinion (in due measure) made Me this great Office boldly to invade: Nor could incomprehensiblenesse deterre Mee, from thus trying to emprison her, 470 Which when I saw that a strict grave could doe, I saw not why verse might not do so too. Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keepes Soules, The Grave keepes bodies, Verse the Fame enroules.

[An Anatomy _&c._ _1611-69_ The first Anniversary. _1612-69_ (First _1612-25_): _om. 1611_]

[_The entrie &c._ _1612-21:_ _om. 1625-33:_ _1611 and 1635-69 have no notes_]

[2 Whom _1611_, _1612-25_, _1669:_ Who _1633:_ whõ _1635-54_]

[5 Deedes _1611_, _1612-25:_ deeds, _1633-69_]

[6 In-mate _1611-12:_ Inmate _1621-25:_ immate _1633:_ inmate _1635-69_]

[10 Song, _1611:_ Song. _1612-33:_ Song: _1635-69_]

[14 then _1611_, _1612-39:_ them _1650-69_]

[18 shee, _1611:_ shee _1612_, _1669:_ shee. _1621-54_]

[22 care, _1611-21:_ care. _1625-33_]

[24 Lethargie.] Letargee. _1611_, _1612-25_]

[26 Man. _1611_, _1621-25:_ man. _1633-69_]

[31 name, _1611_, _1612-25:_ name _1633-69_]

[33 Font, _1611:_ Fount, _1612-69_]

[36 Palace _1611-12_, _1621-25:_ palace _1633-69_]

[40 times _1611_, _1612-33:_ time _1635-69_]

[48 law, _1612_, _1669:_ law. _1611_, _1621-25:_ law; _1633-54_]

[50 glue] give _1650-69_]

[_What life &c._ _1612-21:_ _om. 1625-33_]

[70 walke; _1611_, _1612-25:_ walke, _1633-69_]

[71 good, _1633:_ good _1612-25_, _1635-69_]

[75 old world, free, _1611-12_, _1633-69:_ old world, free _1621-25_]

[79 though] thought _1621-33_]

[80 home-borne] homborne _1611_, _1621-25:_ homeborne _1633-69_]

[85 Yet, _1612-25:_ Yet _1633-69_]

[_The sicknesses &c._ _1612:_ _The sicknesse &c._ _1621:_ _The sicknes &c._ _1625-33_]

[89 then] them _1650-69_]

[99 ruine! _Ed:_ ruine? _1611_, _1612-25:_ ruine, _1633-69_]

[100 mankinde! _Ed:_ mankinde? _1611_, _1612-69_]

[113 When as, the Sunne and man _1633-39:_ _no commas_ _1650-69:_ When as the Sunne and man, _1611_, _1612-25_]

[114 survive; _1650-69:_ survive. _1611_, _1612-39_]

[116 minoritie; _1650-69:_ minoritee. _1611_, _1621-25:_ minoritie, _1633-39_]

[131 Grandsires _1611_, _1612-21:_ Gransires _1625-69_

sorrow, _1611-21:_ sorrow. _1625:_ sorrow: _1633-69_]

[133 peasant _1611_, _1612-25:_ pesant _1633-69_]

[134 lives. _1611_, _1633:_ lives _1612:_ lives, _1621-25_]

[135 man _1611:_ man. _1612-25:_ man, _1633-69_]

[145 addes _1611-21:_ adds _1635-69:_ ads _1625_, _1633_]

[149 silver; _1611-12:_ silver _1621-25:_ silver, _1633-69_]

[150 scatter'd] scattred _1612-25_]

[152 bodies, _1611-25:_ bodies _1633-39_]

[153 close weaving _1633-69:_ close-weaning _1611-12:_ close weaning _1621-25_]

[161 Thus man, _1611_, _1612-33:_ This man, _1635-69_, _Chambers_]

[166 use:] use. _1611_, _1621-33_]

[167 t'attend] t'atend _1633_]

[169 man, _1611:_ man _1612-69_]

[171 any thing, _1611-12:_ any thing; _1621-33_]

[172 wast, _1633:_ wast, _1611:_ waste, _1635-69_]

[178 Allay _1611_, _1612-25:_ allay _1633-69_]

[179 Sex; _1611:_ Sex, _1621-25:_ Sex: _1633-69_]

[181 thoughts, _1611-12_, _1635-69:_ thought, _1621-33_]

[183 Shee, shee _1611_, _1612-25:_ She, she _1633-69_]

[186 no] no no _1621_]

[188 Religion, _1611_, _1650-69:_ Religion. _1612-25:_ Religion: _1633-39_]

[189 Growth _1611:_ grouth _1612-25:_ growth _1633-69_

withered] whithered _1621-25_]

[191 Then, _1611_, _1621-25:_ Then _1633-69_]

[195 Angels, _1612-69:_ Angells: _1611_]

[200 man. _1611_, _1612-25:_ man, _1633-39:_ man: _1650-69_]

[210 Firmament _1611-12:_ firmament _1621-69_]

[212 Atomies.] Atomis. _1611_, _1612-25_]

[213 cohaerence _1611_, _1612-25:_ coherence _1633-69_]

[217 then _1611_, _1612-69:_ there _Grosart, who with Chambers attributes to 1669_]

[223 invented] innented _1621_]

[228 copies, _1633-69:_ copies; _1611-12:_ copies _1621-25_]

[229 Fate; _1612-69:_ Fate: _1611_

brest _1611:_ brest: _1612-25:_ breast, _1633_]

[230 West Indies, _1611:_ West-Indies, _1621-69_

East; _1611:_ East, _1621-69_]

[234 money, _1611-21:_ money _1625-69_]

[237 knowst _1611:_ knowest _1612-69:_ _and so in_ 238]

[237 this,] this _1633-35_]

[238 is. _1611_, _1612-33:_ is, _1635-69_]

[244 contrould,] contrould. _1611_, _1612-25_]

[251 Sphericall, _1650-69:_ Sphericall _1611_, _1612-39_]

[252 all. _1611_, _1612-25:_ all, _1633-69_]

[257 forme: _1633-69:_ forme. _1611_, _1612-25_]

[258 sheires, _1633-35:_ sheeres, _1611_, _1612-25:_ shieres, _1639-69_]

[267 Tropiques _1611_, _1612-25:_ tropiques _1633-69_]

[273 with] of _1635-69_]

[284 pace.] peace. _1612-33_]

[286 Tenarif, _1611_, _1612-25:_ Tenarus _1633-69_

Hill _1611_, _1612-25:_ hill _1633-69_]

[288 there, _1611_, _1612-21:_ there _1625-69_]

[289 strooke _1611_, _1612-25:_ strucke _1633-69_]

[290 to morrow, _1611_, _1612-25:_ to morrow _1633-69_]

[295 Vault _1611_, _1612-25:_ vault _1633-69_]

[298 straight] strait _1611-25_]

[300 pock-holes] pockholes _1633-69_]

[301 th'earth?] th'earth; _1633_]

[306 beauties best, proportion, _1611_, _1612-39:_ beauty's best proportion _Chambers:_ _1650-69_ _drop the second comma_]

[313 infer, _1611-12:_ infer. _1621-25:_ infer _1633-69_]

[318 proportions _1611-12:_ proportion _1621-69_]

[321 Elements, _1611-12:_ Elements _1621-69_]

[325 Shee, shee _1611_, _1612-25:_ She, she _1633-69_

shee's] she's _1633-69_

knowst _1611:_ knowest _1612-25:_ know'st _1633-69_]

[326 knowst _1611_, _1612-25:_ knowest _1633-69_]

[336 Deformitee. _1611_, _1612-25:_ deformitie. _1633-69_]

[351 inow, _1611_, _1612-25:_ enough, _1633:_ enow, _1635-69_]

[352 allow.] allow, _1621-33_]

[366 Diaphanous, _1611_, _1612-25:_ diaphanous, _1633-69_]

[369 Shee, shee, _1611_, _1612-25_ (shee _1625_): She, she _1633-69_ (_but_ Shee, _1633_, _in pass-over word_)]

[370 knowst _1611:_ knowest _1621-69_]

[374 vanitie, to thinke _1633-69:_ vanity to think, _1611_, _1612-25_]

[379-80 feele this, ... barren is. _1611_, _1612-69:_ feele this. ... barren is; _Chambers_. _See note_]

[383 Th'Ayre _1611_, _1612-21:_ Th'ayre _1625-69_]

[387 Th'Ayre _1611:_ Th'ayre _1612-69_]

[390 _Mages_] _No change of type_, _1611-12_]

[394 Charme, _1611-21:_ Charme _1625-54_]

[404 Ashes _1611_, _1612-25:_ ashes _1633-69_]

[407 Swan, _1611_, _1612-25:_ swan, _1633-69_]

[415 Impressions _1611:_ Impression _1612-25:_ impression _1633-69_]

[416 But, _1611:_ But _1621-69_

Receivers _1611-12:_ _rest no capital_]

[421 have] have, _1633_]

[427 is dead;] is dead, _1633-69_

shee's dead; _1611-25:_ she's dead; _1633-69_]

[431 nothing] no thing _1611-21_]

[442 they're] thy're _1633_]

[443 And, _1611_, _1612-25:_ and, _1633-69_]

[467 (in due measure) _1611_, _1612-25_ (_but 1625 drops second bracket_): _commas_ _1633-69_]

[468 Office _1611_, _1612-25:_ office _1633-69_]

[473 nature: _1611-25:_ nature, _1633-69_]

A Funerall ELEGIE.

'Tis lost, to trust a Tombe with such a guest, Or to confine her in a marble chest. Alas, what's Marble, Jeat, or Porphyrie, Priz'd with the Chrysolite of either eye, Or with those Pearles, and Rubies, which she was? 5 Joyne the two Indies in one Tombe, 'tis glasse; And so is all to her materials, Though every inch were ten Escurials, Yet she's demolish'd: can wee keepe her then In works of hands, or of the wits of men? 10 Can these memorials, ragges of paper, give Life to that name, by which name they must live? Sickly, alas, short-liv'd, aborted bee Those carcasse verses, whose soule is not shee. And can shee, who no longer would be shee, 15 Being such a Tabernacle, stoop to be In paper wrapt; or, when shee would not lie In such a house, dwell in an Elegie? But 'tis no matter; wee may well allow Verse to live so long as the world will now, 20 For her death wounded it. The world containes Princes for armes, and Counsellors for braines, Lawyers for tongues, Divines for hearts, and more, The Rich for stomackes, and for backes, the Poore; The Officers for hands, Merchants for feet, 25 By which, remote and distant Countries meet. But those fine spirits which do tune, and set This Organ, are those peeces which beget Wonder and love; and these were shee; and shee Being spent, the world must needs decrepit bee; 30 For since death will proceed to triumph still, He can finde nothing, after her, to kill, Except the world it selfe, so great as shee. Thus brave and confident may Nature bee, Death cannot give her such another blow, 35 Because shee cannot such another show. But must wee say she's dead? may't not be said That as a sundred clocke is peecemeale laid, Not to be lost, but by the makers hand Repollish'd, without errour then to stand, 40 Or as the Affrique Niger streame enwombs It selfe into the earth, and after comes (Having first made a naturall bridge, to passe For many leagues) farre greater then it was, May't not be said, that her grave shall restore 45 Her, greater, purer, firmer, then before? Heaven may say this, and joy in't, but can wee Who live, and lacke her, here this vantage see? What is't to us, alas, if there have beene An Angell made a Throne, or Cherubin? 50 Wee lose by't: and as aged men are glad Being tastlesse growne, to joy in joyes they had, So now the sick starv'd world must feed upon This joy, that we had her, who now is gone. Rejoyce then Nature, and this World, that you, 55 Fearing the last fires hastning to subdue Your force and vigour, ere it were neere gone, Wisely bestow'd and laid it all on one. One, whose cleare body was so pure and thinne, Because it need disguise no thought within. 60 'Twas but a through-light scarfe, her minde t'inroule; Or exhalation breath'd out from her Soule. One, whom all men who durst no more, admir'd: And whom, who ere had worth enough, desir'd; As when a Temple's built, Saints emulate 65 To which of them, it shall be consecrate. But, as when heaven lookes on us with new eyes, Those new starres every Artist exercise, What place they should assigne to them they doubt, Argue,'and agree not, till those starres goe out: 70 So the world studied whose this peece should be, Till shee can be no bodies else, nor shee: But like a Lampe of Balsamum, desir'd Rather t'adorne, then last, she soone expir'd, Cloath'd in her virgin white integritie, 75 For marriage, though it doe not staine, doth dye. To scape th'infirmities which wait upon Woman, she went away, before sh'was one; And the worlds busie noyse to overcome, Tooke so much death, as serv'd for _opium_; 80 For though she could not, nor could chuse to dye, She'ath yeelded to too long an extasie: Hee which not knowing her said History, Should come to reade the booke of destiny, How faire, and chast, humble, and high she'ad been, 85 Much promis'd, much perform'd, at not fifteene, And measuring future things, by things before, Should turne the leafe to reade, and reade no more, Would thinke that either destiny mistooke, Or that some leaves were torne out of the booke. 90 But 'tis not so; Fate did but usher her To yeares of reasons use, and then inferre Her destiny to her selfe, which liberty She tooke but for thus much, thus much to die. Her modestie not suffering her to bee 95 Fellow-Commissioner with Destinie, She did no more but die; if after her Any shall live, which dare true good prefer, Every such person is her deligate, T'accomplish that which should have beene her Fate. 100 They shall make up that Booke and shall have thanks Of Fate, and her, for filling up their blankes. For future vertuous deeds are Legacies, Which from the gift of her example rise; And 'tis in heav'n part of spirituall mirth, 105 To see how well the good play her, on earth.

[Funerall ELEGIE. _1611_, _1612-69:_ _whole poem printed in italics_ _1612-25:_ _in roman 1611_]

[1 lost, _1611_, _1612-25:_ lost _1633:_ losse _1635-69_]

[2 chest. _1611-21:_ chest, _1625-69_]

[8 Escurials,] escurials. _1611-25_]

[13 aborted _1611_, _1612-33:_ abortive _1635-69_]

[17 or, _1612-25:_ or _1633-69_]

[18 a] an _1635-69_]

[22-5 Princes, Counsellors _&c._ _all in capitals except_ Officers _1611_, _1612-25:_ _later editions erratic_]

[24: backes, _1611:_ backes _1612-25:_ backs _1633-69_

Poore] _spelt_ Pore _1611-12_]

[28 peeces] peeces, _1633-69_]

[30 _1625 inserts marginal note_, Smalnesse of stature. _See p._ 235]

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[47 in't,] in't; _1612-21:_ in'ts, _1625_]

[48 her, here _1611_, _1612-25:_ her, here, _1633:_ her here, _1635-69_]

[58 one. _1612-25:_ one; _1633-69_]

[64 worth] worke _1633_]

[74 expir'd, _1633-69:_ expir'd; _1611_, _1612-25_]

[75 integritie, _1633-69:_ integritie; _1611-25_]

[76 it doe _1611_, _1612-25:_ it doth _1633-69_

dye. _1611_, _1612-69_ (_spelt_ die _1633-69_): _Chambers closes the sentence at_ 74 expir'd _and prints_ 75-7 _thus_--

Clothed in her virgin white integrity --For marriage, though it doth not stain, doth dye-- To 'scape _&c._

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[83 said _1611_, _1612-33:_ sad _1635-69_]

[94 tooke _1611_, _1612-25:_ tooke, _1633-69_]

[98 prefer, _1611_, _1612-25:_ prefer; _1633-69_]

OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.

_Wherein_,

By occasion of the Religious death of Mistris ELIZABETH DRVRY, the incommodities of the Soule in this life, and her exaltation in the next, are contemplated.

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The second Anniversary.

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_The Harbinger to the_

PROGRESSE.

Two Soules move here, and mine (a third) must move Paces of admiration, and of love; Thy Soule (deare virgin) whose this tribute is, Mov'd from this mortall Spheare to lively blisse; And yet moves still, and still aspires to see 5 The worlds last day, thy glories full degree: Like as those starres which thou o'r-lookest farre, Are in their place, and yet still moved are: No soule (whiles with the luggage of this clay It clogged is) can follow thee halfe way; 10 Or see thy flight, which doth our thoughts outgoe So fast, that now the lightning moves but slow: But now thou art as high in heaven flowne As heaven's from us; what soule besides thine owne Can tell thy joyes, or say he can relate 15 Thy glorious Journals in that blessed state? I envie thee (Rich soule) I envy thee, Although I cannot yet thy glory see: And thou (great spirit) which hers follow'd hast So fast, as none can follow thine so fast; 20 So far, as none can follow thine so farre, (And if this flesh did not the passage barre Hadst caught her) let me wonder at thy flight Which long agone hadst lost the vulgar sight, And now mak'st proud the better eyes, that they 25 Can see thee less'ned in thine ayery way; So while thou mak'st her soule by progresse knowne Thou mak'st a noble progresse of thine owne, From this worlds carkasse having mounted high To that pure life of immortalitie; 30 Since thine aspiring thoughts themselves so raise That more may not beseeme a creatures praise, Yet still thou vow'st her more; and every yeare Mak'st a new progresse, while thou wandrest here; Still upward mount; and let thy Makers praise 35 Honor thy Laura, and adorne thy laies. And since thy Muse her head in heaven shrouds, Oh let her never stoope below the clouds: And if those glorious sainted soules may know Or what wee doe, or what wee sing below, 40 Those acts, those songs shall still content them best Which praise those awfull Powers that make them blest.

[Of the Progresse _&c._ _1612-69:_ The second Anniversary. _1612-69_ (_in 1612-21 it stands at head of page_)]

[The Harbinger _&c._] _In 1612-25 this poem printed in italics_]

[8 are:] are _1612-25_]

[12 that now] as now _1635-69_, _Chambers_]

[27 soule] soules _1612_]

[28 owne, _1635-69:_ owne. _1612-33_]

[34 while] whilst _1669_]

[35 upward] upwards _1612_]

OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.

_The second Anniversarie._

[Sidenote: _The entrance._[1]] Nothing could make me sooner to confesse That this world had an everlastingnesse, Then to consider, that a yeare is runne, Since both this lower world's, and the Sunnes Sunne, The Lustre, and the vigor of this All, 5 Did set; 'twere blasphemie to say, did fall. But as a ship which hath strooke saile, doth runne By force of that force which before, it wonne: Or as sometimes in a beheaded man, Though at those two Red seas, which freely ranne, 10 One from the Trunke, another from the Head, His soule be sail'd, to her eternall bed, His eyes will twinckle, and his tongue will roll, As though he beckned, and cal'd backe his soule, He graspes his hands, and he pulls up his feet, 15 And seemes to reach, and to step forth to meet His soule; when all these motions which we saw, Are but as Ice, which crackles at a thaw: Or as a Lute, which in moist weather, rings Her knell alone, by cracking of her strings: 20 So struggles this dead world, now shee is gone; For there is motion in corruption. As some daies are at the Creation nam'd, Before the Sunne, the which fram'd daies, was fram'd, So after this Sunne's set, some shew appeares, 25 And orderly vicissitude of yeares. Yet a new Deluge, and of _Lethe_ flood, Hath drown'd us all, All have forgot all good, Forgetting her, the maine reserve of all. Yet in this deluge, grosse and generall, 30 Thou seest me strive for life; my life shall bee, To be hereafter prais'd, for praysing thee; Immortall Maid, who though thou would'st refuse The name of Mother, be unto my Muse A Father, since her chast Ambition is, 35 Yearely to bring forth such a child as this. These Hymnes may worke on future wits, and so May great Grand children of thy prayses grow. And so, though not revive, embalme and spice The world, which else would putrifie with vice. 40 For thus, Man may extend thy progeny, Untill man doe but vanish, and not die. These Hymnes thy issue, may encrease so long, As till Gods great _Venite_ change the song. [Sidenote: _A iust disestimation[2] of this world._] Thirst for that time, O my insatiate soule, 45 And serve thy thirst, with Gods safe-sealing Bowle. Be thirstie still, and drinke still till thou goe To th'only Health, to be Hydroptique so. Forget this rotten world; And unto thee Let thine owne times as an old storie bee. 50 Be not concern'd: studie not why, nor when; Doe not so much as not beleeve a man. For though to erre, be worst, to try truths forth, Is far more businesse, then this world is worth. The world is but a carkasse; thou art fed 55 By it, but as a worme, that carkasse bred; And why should'st thou, poore worme, consider more, When this world will grow better then before, Then those thy fellow wormes doe thinke upon That carkasses last resurrection. 60 Forget this world, and scarce thinke of it so, As of old clothes, cast off a yeare agoe. To be thus stupid is Alacritie; Men thus Lethargique have best Memory. Look upward; that's towards her, whose happy state 65 We now lament not, but congratulate. Shee, to whom all this world was but a stage, Where all sat harkning how her youthfull age Should be emploi'd, because in all shee did, Some Figure of the Golden times was hid. 70 Who could not lacke, what e'r this world could give, Because shee was the forme, that made it live; Nor could complaine, that this world was unfit To be staid in, then when shee was in it; Shee that first tried indifferent desires 75 By vertue, and vertue by religious fires, Shee to whose person Paradise adher'd, As Courts to Princes, shee whose eyes ensphear'd Star-light enough, t'have made the South controule, (Had shee beene there) the Star-full Northerne Pole, 80 Shee, shee is gone; she is gone; when thou knowest this, What fragmentary rubbidge this world is Thou knowest, and that it is not worth a thought; He honors it too much that thinkes it nought. [Sidenote: _Contemplation of our state in our death-bed._] Thinke then, my soule, that death is but a Groome, 85 Which brings a Taper to the outward roome, Whence thou spiest first a little glimmering light, And after brings it nearer to thy sight: For such approaches doth heaven make in death. Thinke thy selfe labouring now with broken breath, 90 And thinke those broken and soft Notes to bee Division, and thy happyest Harmonie. Thinke thee laid on thy death-bed, loose and slacke; And thinke that, but unbinding of a packe, To take one precious thing, thy soule from thence. 95 Thinke thy selfe parch'd with fevers violence, Anger thine ague more, by calling it Thy Physicke; chide the slacknesse of the fit. Thinke that thou hear'st thy knell, and think no more, But that, as Bels cal'd thee to Church before, 100 So this, to the Triumphant Church, calls thee. Thinke Satans Sergeants round about thee bee, And thinke that but for Legacies they thrust; Give one thy Pride, to'another give thy Lust: Give them those sinnes which they gave thee before, 105 And trust th'immaculate blood to wash thy score. Thinke thy friends weeping round, and thinke that they Weepe but because they goe not yet thy way. Thinke that they close thine eyes, and thinke in this, That they confesse much in the world, amisse, 110 Who dare not trust a dead mans eye with that, Which they from God, and Angels cover not. Thinke that they shroud thee up, and think from thence They reinvest thee in white innocence. Thinke that thy body rots, and (if so low, 115 Thy soule exalted so, thy thoughts can goe,) Think thee a Prince, who of themselves create Wormes which insensibly devoure their State. Thinke that they bury thee, and thinke that right Laies thee to sleepe but a Saint Lucies night. 120 Thinke these things cheerefully: and if thou bee Drowsie or slacke, remember then that shee, Shee whose Complexion was so even made, That which of her Ingredients should invade The other three, no Feare, no Art could guesse: 125 So far were all remov'd from more or lesse. But as in Mithridate, or just perfumes, Where all good things being met, no one presumes To governe, or to triumph on the rest, Only because all were, no part was best. 130 And as, though all doe know, that quantities Are made of lines, and lines from Points arise, None can these lines or quantities unjoynt, And say this is a line, or this a point, So though the Elements and Humors were 135 In her, one could not say, this governes there. Whose even constitution might have wonne Any disease to venter on the Sunne, Rather then her: and make a spirit feare, That hee to disuniting subject were. 140 To whose proportions if we would compare Cubes, th'are unstable; Circles, Angular; She who was such a chaine as Fate employes To bring mankinde all Fortunes it enjoyes; So fast, so even wrought, as one would thinke, 145 No Accident could threaten any linke; Shee, shee embrac'd a sicknesse, gave it meat, The purest blood, and breath, that e'r it eate; And hath taught us, that though a good man hath Title to heaven, and plead it by his Faith, 150 And though he may pretend a conquest, since Heaven was content to suffer violence, Yea though hee plead a long possession too, (For they're in heaven on earth who heavens workes do) Though hee had right and power and place, before, 155 Yet Death must usher, and unlocke the doore. [Sidenote: _Incommodities of the Soule in the Body._[3]] Thinke further on thy selfe, my Soule, and thinke How thou at first wast made but in a sinke; Thinke that it argued some infirmitie, That those two soules, which then thou foundst in me, 160 Thou fedst upon, and drewst into thee, both My second soule of sense, and first of growth. Thinke but how poore thou wast, how obnoxious; Whom a small lumpe of flesh could poyson thus. This curded milke, this poore unlittered whelpe 165 My body, could, beyond escape or helpe, Infect thee with Originall sinne, and thou Couldst neither then refuse, nor leave it now. Thinke that no stubborne sullen Anchorit, Which fixt to a pillar, or a grave, doth sit 170 Bedded, and bath'd in all his ordures, dwels So fowly as our Soules in their first-built Cels. Thinke in how poore a prison thou didst lie After, enabled but to suck, and crie. Thinke, when'twas growne to most,'twas a poore Inne, 175 A Province pack'd up in two yards of skinne, And that usurp'd or threatned with the rage Of sicknesses, or their true mother, Age. But thinke that Death hath now enfranchis'd thee, [Sidenote: _Her liberty by death._] Thou hast thy'expansion now, and libertie; 180 Thinke that a rustie Peece, discharg'd, is flowne In peeces, and the bullet is his owne, And freely flies: This to thy Soule allow, Thinke thy shell broke, thinke thy Soule hatch'd but now. And think this slow-pac'd soule, which late did cleave 185 To'a body, and went but by the bodies leave, Twenty, perchance, or thirty mile a day, Dispatches in a minute all the way Twixt heaven, and earth; she stayes not in the ayre, To looke what Meteors there themselves prepare; 190 She carries no desire to know, nor sense, Whether th'ayres middle region be intense; For th'Element of fire, she doth not know, Whether she past by such a place or no; She baits not at the Moone, nor cares to trie 195 Whether in that new world, men live, and die. _Venus_ retards her not, to'enquire, how shee Can, (being one starre) _Hesper_, and _Vesper_ bee; Hee that charm'd _Argus_ eyes, sweet _Mercury_, Workes not on her, who now is growne all eye; 200 Who, if she meet the body of the Sunne, Goes through, not staying till his course be runne; Who findes in _Mars_ his Campe no corps of Guard; Nor is by _Iove_, nor by his father barr'd; But ere she can consider how she went, 205 At once is at, and through the Firmament. And as these starres were but so many beads Strung on one string, speed undistinguish'd leads Her through those Spheares, as through the beads, a string, Whose quick succession makes it still one thing: 210 As doth the pith, which, lest our bodies slacke, Strings fast the little bones of necke, and backe; So by the Soule doth death string Heaven and Earth; For when our Soule enjoyes this her third birth, (Creation gave her one, a second, grace,) 215 Heaven is as neare, and present to her face, As colours are, and objects, in a roome Where darknesse was before, when Tapers come. This must, my Soule, thy long-short Progresse bee; To'advance these thoughts, remember then, that she, 220 She; whose faire body no such prison was, But that a Soule might well be pleas'd to passe An age in her; she whose rich beauty lent Mintage to other beauties, for they went But for so much as they were like to her; 225 Shee, in whose body (if we dare preferre This low world, to so high a marke as shee,) The Westerne treasure, Easterne spicerie, Europe, and Afrique, and the unknowne rest Were easily found, or what in them was best; 230 And when w'have made this large discoverie Of all, in her some one part then will bee Twenty such parts, whose plenty and riches is Enough to make twenty such worlds as this; Shee, whom had they knowne who did first betroth 235 The Tutelar Angels, and assign'd one, both To Nations, Cities, and to Companies, To Functions, Offices, and Dignities, And to each severall man, to him, and him, They would have given her one for every limbe; 240 She, of whose soule, if wee may say, 'twas Gold, Her body was th'Electrum, and did hold Many degrees of that; wee understood Her by her sight; her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheekes, and so distinctly wrought, 245 That one might almost say, her body thought; Shee, shee, thus richly and largely hous'd, is gone: And chides us slow-pac'd snailes who crawle upon Our prisons prison, earth, nor thinke us well, Longer, then whil'st wee beare our brittle shell. 250 [Sidenote: _Her ignorance in this life and knowledge in the next._[4]] But 'twere but little to have chang'd our roome, If, as we were in this our living Tombe Oppress'd with ignorance, wee still were so. Poore soule, in this thy flesh what dost thou know? Thou know'st thy selfe so little, as thou know'st not, 255 How thou didst die, nor how thou wast begot. Thou neither know'st, how thou at first cam'st in, Nor how thou took'st the poyson of mans sinne. Nor dost thou, (though thou know'st, that thou art so) By what way thou art made immortall, know. 260 Thou art too narrow, wretch, to comprehend Even thy selfe: yea though thou wouldst but bend To know thy body. Have not all soules thought For many ages, that our body'is wrought Of Ayre, and Fire, and other Elements? 265 And now they thinke of new ingredients, And one Soule thinkes one, and another way Another thinkes, and 'tis an even lay. Knowst thou but how the stone doth enter in The bladders cave, and never breake the skinne? 270 Know'st thou how blood, which to the heart doth flow, Doth from one ventricle to th'other goe? And for the putrid stuffe, which thou dost spit, Know'st thou how thy lungs have attracted it? There are no passages, so that there is 275 (For ought thou know'st) piercing of substances. And of those many opinions which men raise Of Nailes and Haires, dost thou know which to praise? What hope have wee to know our selves, when wee Know not the least things, which for our use be? 280 Wee see in Authors, too stiffe to recant, A hundred controversies of an Ant; And yet one watches, starves, freeses, and sweats, To know but Catechismes and Alphabets Of unconcerning things, matters of fact; 285 How others on our stage their parts did Act; What _Cæsar_ did, yea, and what _Cicero_ said. Why grasse is greene, or why our blood is red, Are mysteries which none have reach'd unto. In this low forme, poore soule, what wilt thou doe? 290 When wilt thou shake off this Pedantery, Of being taught by sense, and Fantasie? Thou look'st through spectacles; small things seeme great Below; But up unto the watch-towre get, And see all things despoyl'd of fallacies: 295 Thou shalt not peepe through lattices of eyes, Nor heare through Labyrinths of eares, nor learne By circuit, or collections to discerne. In heaven thou straight know'st all, concerning it, And what concernes it not, shalt straight forget. 300 There thou (but in no other schoole) maist bee Perchance, as learned, and as full, as shee, Shee who all libraries had throughly read At home in her owne thoughts, and practised So much good as would make as many more: 305 Shee whose example they must all implore, Who would or doe, or thinke well, and confesse That all the vertuous Actions they expresse, Are but a new, and worse edition Of her some one thought, or one action: 310 She who in th'art of knowing Heaven, was growne Here upon earth, to such perfection, That she hath, ever since to Heaven she came, (In a far fairer print,) but read the same: Shee, shee not satisfied with all this waight, 315 (For so much knowledge, as would over-fraight Another, did but ballast her) is gone As well t'enjoy, as get perfection. And cals us after her, in that shee tooke, (Taking her selfe) our best, and worthiest booke. 320 [Sidenote: _Of our company in this life, and in the next._] Returne not, my Soule, from this extasie, And meditation of what thou shalt bee, To earthly thoughts, till it to thee appeare, With whom thy conversation must be there. With whom wilt thou converse? what station 325 Canst thou choose out, free from infection, That will not give thee theirs, nor drinke in thine? Shalt thou not finde a spungie slacke Divine Drinke and sucke in th'instructions of Great men, And for the word of God, vent them agen? 330 Are there not some Courts (and then, no things bee So like as Courts) which, in this let us see, That wits and tongues of Libellers are weake, Because they do more ill, then these can speake? The poyson's gone through all, poysons affect 335 Chiefly the chiefest parts, but some effect In nailes, and haires, yea excrements, will show; So lyes the poyson of sinne in the most low. Up, up, my drowsie Soule, where thy new eare Shall in the Angels songs no discord heare; 340 Where thou shalt see the blessed Mother-maid Joy in not being that, which men have said. Where she is exalted more for being good, Then for her interest of Mother-hood. Up to those Patriarchs, which did longer sit 345 Expecting Christ, then they'have enjoy'd him yet. Up to those Prophets, which now gladly see Their Prophesies growne to be Historie. Up to th'Apostles, who did bravely runne All the Suns course, with more light then the Sunne. 350 Up to those Martyrs, who did calmly bleed Oyle to th'Apostles Lamps, dew to their seed. Up to those Virgins, who thought, that almost They made joyntenants with the Holy Ghost, If they to any should his Temple give. 355 Up, up, for in that squadron there doth live She, who hath carried thither new degrees (As to their number) to their dignities. Shee, who being to her selfe a State, injoy'd All royalties which any State employ'd; 360 For shee made warres, and triumph'd; reason still Did not o'rthrow, but rectifie her will: And she made peace, for no peace is like this, That beauty, and chastity together kisse: She did high justice, for she crucified 365 Every first motion of rebellious pride: And she gave pardons, and was liberall, For, onely her selfe except, she pardon'd all: Shee coy'nd, in this, that her impressions gave To all our actions all the worth they have: 370 She gave protections; the thoughts of her brest Satans rude Officers could ne'r arrest. As these prerogatives being met in one, Made her a soveraigne State; religion Made her a Church; and these two made her all. 375 She who was all this All, and could not fall To worse, by company, (for she was still More Antidote, then all the world was ill,) Shee, shee doth leave it, and by Death, survive All this, in Heaven; whither who doth not strive 380 The more, because shees there, he doth not know That accidentall joyes in Heaven doe grow. But pause, my soule; And study, ere thou fall On accidentall joyes, th'essentiall. [Sidenote: _Of essentiall joy in this life and in the next._] Still before Accessories doe abide 385 A triall, must the principall be tride. And what essentiall joy can'st thou expect Here upon earth? what permanent effect Of transitory causes? Dost thou love Beauty? (And beauty worthy'st is to move) 390 Poore cousened cousenor, _that_ she, and _that_ thou, Which did begin to love, are neither now; You are both fluid, chang'd since yesterday; Next day repaires, (but ill) last dayes decay. Nor are, (although the river keepe the name) 395 Yesterdaies waters, and to daies the same. So flowes her face, and thine eyes, neither now That Saint, nor Pilgrime, which your loving vow Concern'd, remaines; but whil'st you thinke you bee Constant, you'are hourely in inconstancie. 400 Honour may have pretence unto our love, Because that God did live so long above Without this Honour, and then lov'd it so, That he at last made Creatures to bestow Honour on him; not that he needed it, 405 But that, to his hands, man might grow more fit. But since all Honours from inferiours flow, (For they doe give it; Princes doe but shew Whom they would have so honor'd) and that this On such opinions, and capacities 410 Is built, as rise and fall, to more and lesse: Alas, 'tis but a casuall happinesse. Hath ever any man to'himselfe assign'd This or that happinesse to'arrest his minde, But that another man which takes a worse, 415 Thinks him a foole for having tane that course? They who did labour Babels tower to'erect, Might have considered, that for that effect, All this whole solid Earth could not allow Nor furnish forth materialls enow; 420 And that this Center, to raise such a place, Was farre too little, to have beene the Base; No more affords this world, foundation To erect true joy, were all the meanes in one. But as the Heathen made them severall gods, 425 Of all Gods Benefits, and all his Rods, (For as the Wine, and Corne, and Onions are Gods unto them, so Agues bee, and Warre) And as by changing that whole precious Gold To such small Copper coynes, they lost the old, 430 And lost their only God, who ever must Be sought alone, and not in such a thrust: So much mankinde true happinesse mistakes; No Joy enjoyes that man, that many makes. Then, Soule, to thy first pitch worke up againe; 435 Know that all lines which circles doe containe, For once that they the Center touch, doe touch Twice the circumference; and be thou such; Double on heaven thy thoughts on earth emploid; All will not serve; Only who have enjoy'd 440 The sight of God, in fulnesse, can thinke it; For it is both the object, and the wit. This is essentiall joy, where neither hee Can suffer diminution, nor wee; 'Tis such a full, and such a filling good; 445 Had th'Angels once look'd on him, they had stood. To fill the place of one of them, or more, Shee whom wee celebrate, is gone before. She, who had Here so much essentiall joy, As no chance could distract, much lesse destroy; 450 Who with Gods presence was acquainted so, (Hearing, and speaking to him) as to know His face in any naturall Stone, or Tree, Better then when in Images they bee: Who kept by diligent devotion, 455 Gods Image, in such reparation, Within her heart, that what decay was growne, Was her first Parents fault, and not her owne: Who being solicited to any act, Still heard God pleading his safe precontract; 460 Who by a faithfull confidence, was here Betroth'd to God, and now is married there; Whose twilights were more cleare, then our mid-day; Who dreamt devoutlier, then most use to pray; Who being here fil'd with grace, yet strove to bee, 465 Both where more grace, and more capacitie At once is given: she to Heaven is gone, Who made this world in some proportion A heaven, and here, became unto us all, Joy, (as our joyes admit) essentiall. 470 [Sidenote: _Of accidentall joys in both places._] But could this low world joyes essentiall touch, Heavens accidentall joyes would passe them much. How poore and lame, must then our casuall bee? If thy Prince will his subjects to call thee _My Lord_, and this doe swell thee, thou art than, 475 By being greater, growne to bee lesse Man. When no Physitian of redresse can speake, A joyfull casuall violence may breake A dangerous Apostem in thy breast; And whil'st thou joyest in this, the dangerous rest, 480 The bag may rise up, and so strangle thee. What e'r was casuall, may ever bee. What should the nature change? Or make the same Certaine, which was but casuall, when it came? All casuall joy doth loud and plainly say, 485 Only by comming, that it can away. Only in Heaven joyes strength is never spent; And accidentall things are permanent. Joy of a soules arrivall ne'r decaies; For that soule ever joyes and ever staies. 490 Joy that their last great Consummation Approaches in the resurrection; When earthly bodies more celestiall Shall be, then Angels were, for they could fall; This kinde of joy doth every day admit 495 Degrees of growth, but none of losing it. In this fresh joy, 'tis no small part, that shee, Shee, in whose goodnesse, he that names degree, Doth injure her; ('Tis losse to be cal'd best, There where the stuffe is not such as the rest) 500 Shee, who left such a bodie, as even shee Only in Heaven could learne, how it can bee Made better; for shee rather was two soules, Or like to full on both sides written Rols, Where eyes might reade upon the outward skin, 505 As strong Records for God, as mindes within; Shee, who by making full perfection grow, Peeces a Circle, and still keepes it so, Long'd for, and longing for it, to heaven is gone, Where shee receives, and gives addition. 510 [Sidenote: _Conclusion._] Here in a place, where mis-devotion frames A thousand Prayers to Saints, whose very names The ancient Church knew not, Heaven knows not yet: And where, what lawes of Poetry admit, Lawes of Religion have at least the same, 515 Immortall Maide, I might invoke thy name. Could any Saint provoke that appetite, Thou here should'st make me a French convertite. But thou would'st not; nor would'st thou be content, To take this, for my second yeares true Rent, 520 Did this Coine beare any other stampe, then his, That gave thee power to doe, me, to say this. Since his will is, that to posteritie, Thou should'st for life, and death, a patterne bee, And that the world should notice have of this, 525 The purpose, and th'authoritie is his; Thou art the Proclamation; and I am The Trumpet, at whose voyce the people came.

[Footnote 1: _The entrance._ _1612-21_: _om. 1625-33_: _no notes, 1635-69_]

[Footnote 2: _disestimation_] _estimation_ _1625_]

[Footnote 3: _Incommodities &c._ _1612-21:_ _om. 1625-33_]

[Footnote 4: _Her ignorance &c.:_ _1612-25:_ _om. 1633_]

[5 All, _1612_: all, _1625-69_]

[10 Though] Through _1612-25_]

[12 be fail'd,] he fail'd, _1621-33_]

[13 twinckle] twincke _1625_]

[20 strings: _Ed_: strings. _1612-69_]

[23 are _Ed:_ are, _1612-69_]

[24 was fram'd, _1612-25:_ was fram'd: _1633-69_]

[27 Deluge, _1612-25:_ deluge, _1633-69_]

[29 all. _Ed:_ all, _1612-33:_ all; _1635-69_]

[33 Maid, _1612-25_, _1669:_ maid, _1633-54_]

[35 is, _1612-25:_ is _1633-69_]

[43 thy] they _1621-25_

issue, _1612-33:_ issue _1635-69_. _See note_]

[46 safe-sealing] safe-fealing _1621-39_]

[47 goe] goe; _1612-25_]

[48 Health, _1612-33:_ Health; _1635-69_, _Chambers and Grolier_

so. _1612-21:_ so, _1625-69_, _Chambers and Grolier_. _See note_]

[50 bee. _Ed:_ bee _1612-35:_ bee, _1639-69_]

[51 why, _1612-21:_ why _1625-69_

nor] or _1669_]

[57 more, _1612-25:_ more _1633-69_]

[67 was but] twas but _1612-25_]

[81 Shee, shee _1621-25:_ Shee, she _1633-69_]

[82 is] is. _1612-25_]

[96 parch'd _1612-21_, _1639-69:_ pach'd _1625:_ patch'd _1633-35_]

[99 knell,] knell _1633_]

[101 So this, _1612-33:_ So, this _1635-69_]

[103 thrust;] trust; _1669_]

[113 shroud] shourd _1621-25_]

[116 exalted] exhalted _1621_

goe,] goe. _1612-21_]

[123 Complexion _1612-25:_ complexion _1633-69_]

[124 Ingredients _1612-25:_ ingredients _1633-69_]

[134 a point, _1612-21:_ a-point. _1625:_ a point: _1633-69_]

[136 there. _1612-25:_ there, _1633-69_]

[137 wonne] worne _1612-25:_ woon _1633_]

[140 to _1612-25:_ too _1633-69_]

[146 Accident _1612-25:_ accident _1633-69_]

[156 Death _1612-25:_ death _1633-69_]

[161 thee, both _1612-25:_ thee both _1633-69_]

[172 first-built _1612-25:_ first built _1633-69_]

[173 didst] dost _1669_]

[177 the rage _1612-25:_ a rage _1633-69_]

[179 Death _1612-25:_ death _1633-69_]

[181 Peece, discharg'd, _1612:_ Peece, discharg'd _1625:_ Peece discharg'd _1633:_ Peece discharg'd, _1635-69_]

[183 This _1612-25:_ this _1633-69_]

[185 soule, _1612-21:_ soule _1625-69_]

[187 Twenty, perchance,] Twentie, perchance _1625:_ Twenty perchance _1633-69_]

[197 _Venus_] _no ital. 1612-25, and so with_ Hesper _&c._

retards] recards _1612-25_]

[201 Who, if _1612-25:_ Who if _1633-69_]

[204 barr'd;] bard; _1612-39_]

[209 the] those _1669_]

[214 her] _om. 1650-69_]

[219-20 _text 1612-25_ (_but_ soul _1612-25, and_ then _1625 and_ shee _1612-25_):

This must, my Soule, thy long-short Progresse bee, To'advance these thoughts; Remember then that she,

_1633-69_, _Chambers and Grolier_. _See note_]

[231 discoverie] Discoveree. _1612-25_]

[232 Of all,] Of all _1612-25_]

[236 assign'd _Ed:_ assigned _1612-69_]

[238 Dignities, _1612-25:_ dignities, _1633-69_]

[241 Gold, _1612-25:_ gold, _1633-69_]

[243 understood] unstood _1621-25_]

[249 well,] well _1612-25_]

[251 little] little _1633_]

[265 Ayre, and Fire, _1612-25:_ aire, and fire, _1633-69_]

[266 ingredients, _1612:_ ingredients. _1621-69_]

[268 'tis] ty's _1612-21_]

[270 breake _1612:_ brake _1621-33:_ break _1635-69_]

[287 said. _1612-25:_ said, _1633-69_]

[291 Pedantery] Pedantry _1650-69_]

[292 taught] thought _1612-25_]

[300 shalt] shall _1612-25_, _1669_]

[308 all] aie _1612-21:_ are _1625_]

[314 print,] point, _1612-33_]

[323 earthly] early _1625_]

[324 there.] there, _1633-39_]

[326 choose _1612-25:_ chose _1633-69_]

[327 will not] will nor _1612-25_]

[328 Divine _1612-25:_ Divine, _1633-69_]

[329 Great _1612-25:_ great _1633-69_]

[333 wits _1612-25:_ wits, _1633-69_]

[336 some] some, _1633_]

[338 lyes] wise _1612-25_]

[353 thought] thoughts _1612-25_]

[366 rebellious] rebellions _1635-69_]

[369 impressions _1612-25:_ _rest_ impression]

[378 ill,)] _last bracket dropped 1612-33_]

[380 whither] _spelt_ whether _1612-33_]

[383 study, _1635-69:_ study _1612-33_]

[391 _that_ ... _that_] _no italics 1612-25_]

[397 eies, _1612-21:_ eyes _1625:_ eyes; _1633-69_, _Chambers_. _See note_]

[398 Saint, _1612-25:_ Saint _1633-69_

vow] row _1612-25_]

[399 remaines;] remaines, _1612-25_]

[402 that] _in italics 1633-69_]

[404 Creatures _1612-25:_ creatures _1633-69_]

[416 Thinks] Thinke _1612-25_]

[420 enow] enough _1633_]

[421 this _1612:_ his _1621-69_]

[421-2 place, ... little, _1612:_ place ... little, _1621-33_]

[423 affords] affoords _1612-25_

world, foundation _1633-69:_ worlds, foundatione _1612-25_]

[426 Benefits ... Rods] _capitals from 1612-25_]

[428 Warre] _no capital 1612-39_]

[429 that] the _1625_]

[433 much] much, _1633-39_]

[435 up] upon _1612-25_]

[449 Here _1612-25:_ here _1633-69_]

[463 cleare,] cleane, _1635_]

[475 _My Lord_] _no italics 1612-25_]

[477 redresse] Reders _1612-25_]

[482 What e'r] What eye _1612-25_]

[500 where] waere _1612_]

[501 even] ever _1625_]

[506: within; _Ed:_ within, _1612-39:_ within. _1650-69_]

[516: invoke] inroque _1612-25_]

[518 French _1635-69:_ french _1612-33_]

[520 Rent] Rent. _1633_]

* * * * *

EPICEDES AND OBSEQVIES

_Vpon_

The deaths of sundry Personages.

* * * * *

_Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry._

Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God; For both my centers feele this period. Of waight one center, one of greatnesse is; And Reason is that center, Faith is this; For into'our reason flow, and there do end 5 All, that this naturall world doth comprehend: Quotidian things, and equidistant hence, Shut in, for man, in one circumference. But for th'enormous greatnesses, which are So disproportion'd, and so angulare, 10 As is Gods essence, place and providence, Where, how, when, what soules do, departed hence, These things (eccentrique else) on faith do strike; Yet neither all, nor upon all, alike. For reason, put to'her best extension, 15 Almost meetes faith, and makes both centers one. And nothing ever came so neare to this, As contemplation of that Prince, wee misse. For all that faith might credit mankinde could, Reason still seconded, that this prince would. 20 If then least moving of the center, make More, then if whole hell belch'd, the world to shake, What must this do, centers distracted so, That wee see not what to beleeve or know? Was it not well beleev'd till now, that hee, 25 Whose reputation was an extasie On neighbour States, which knew not why to wake, Till hee discover'd what wayes he would take; For whom, what Princes angled, when they tryed, Met a _Torpedo_, and were stupified; 30 And others studies, how he would be bent; Was his great fathers greatest instrument, And activ'st spirit, to convey and tie This soule of peace, through Christianity? Was it not well beleev'd, that hee would make 35 This generall peace, th'Eternall overtake, And that his times might have stretch'd out so farre, As to touch those, of which they emblems are? For to confirme this just beleefe, that now The last dayes came, wee saw heav'n did allow, 40 That, but from his aspect and exercise, In peacefull times, Rumors of war did rise. But now this faith is heresie: we must Still stay, and vexe our great-grand-mother, Dust. Oh, is God prodigall? hath he spent his store 45 Of plagues, on us; and onely now, when more Would ease us much, doth he grudge misery; And will not let's enjoy our curse; to dy? As, for the earth throwne lowest downe of all, T'were an ambition to desire to fall, 50 So God, in our desire to dye, doth know Our plot for ease, in being wretched so. Therefore we live; though such a life wee have, As but so many mandrakes on his grave. What had his growth, and generation done, 55 When, what we are, his putrefaction Sustaines in us; Earth, which griefes animate? Nor hath our world now, other Soule then that. And could griefe get so high as heav'n, that Quire, Forgetting this their new joy, would desire 60 (With griefe to see him) hee had staid below, To rectifie our errours, They foreknow. Is th'other center, Reason, faster then? Where should we looke for that, now we'are not men? For if our Reason be'our connexion 65 Of causes, now to us there can be none. For, as, if all the substances were spent, 'Twere madnesse, to enquire of accident, So is't to looke for reason, hee being gone, The onely subject reason wrought upon. 70 If Fate have such a chaine, whose divers links Industrious man discerneth, as hee thinks; When miracle doth come, and so steale in A new linke, man knowes not, where to begin: At a much deader fault must reason bee, 75 Death having broke off such a linke as hee. But now, for us, with busie proofe to come, That we'have no reason, would prove wee had some. So would just lamentations: Therefore wee May safelyer say, that we are dead, then hee. 80 So, if our griefs wee do not well declare, We'have double excuse; he'is not dead; and we are. Yet I would not dy yet; for though I bee Too narrow, to thinke him, as hee is hee, (Our Soules best baiting, and midd-period, 85 In her long journey, of considering God) Yet, (no dishonour) I can reach him thus, As he embrac'd the fires of love, with us. Oh may I, (since I live) but see, or heare, That she-Intelligence which mov'd this spheare, 90 I pardon Fate, my life: Who ere thou bee, Which hast the noble conscience, thou art shee, I conjure thee by all the charmes he spoke, By th'oathes, which onely you two never broke, By all the soules yee sigh'd, that if you see 95 These lines, you wish, I knew your history. So much, as you, two mutuall heav'ns were here, I were an Angell, singing what you were.

[Epicedes _&c._ _1635-69:_ Elegie upon _&c._ _1613_, _in the_ Lachrymae Lachrymarum _&c. of Joshua Sylvester_. _See note:_ Elegie on Prince Henry. _1633-54_, _O'F:_ _similarly_, _Cy_, _N_, _TCD:_ An Elegie on the untimely _&c._ _1669_]

[8 man _1633-69:_ men _1613_]

[17 neare] nere _1633_]

[18 that _1633-69:_ the _1613_]

[19 might credit _1633-69:_ could credit _1613_]

[21 moving _1633-69:_ movings _1613_]

[22 shake, _1650-69:_ shake. _1633-39_]

[26 extasie _Ed:_ exstasie, _1633-69_]

[31 bent; _Ed:_ bent, _1613_, _1633-69_]

[34 through _1613-33:_ to _1635-69_

Christianity? _1669:_ Christianity: _1633-54_]

[42 did _1633:_ should _1613_, _1635-69_]

[44 great-grand-mother, _1613:_ great grand mother, _1633:_ great grand-mother, _1635-69_]

[46 us;] us, _1633_]

[48 to dy? _Ed:_ to dy. _1633:_ to die! _1635-54:_ _no stop_, _1669_]

[57 animate?] animate; _1633_]

[66 Of _1633-69:_ With _1613_]

[67 as, _1613:_ as _1633-69_]

[69 So is't to] So is' to _1669_]

[71 Fate _1633-69:_ Faith _1613_]

[72 thinks; _Ed:_ thinks, _1613_, _1633-69_]

[73 come, _1633-69:_ joine; _1613_

so steale in _1633-69:_ to steal-in _1613_]

[77 proofe _1633-69:_ proofes _1613_]

[78 some. _1633:_ some, _1635-69_]

[80 hee. _1633:_ hee, _1635-69_]

[82 and we are. _1633-54:_ we are. _1613_, _1669_]

[83 I would not _1633-54:_ would not I _1669_]

[91 Who _Ed:_ who _1633-69_]

[92 shee, _1633-69:_ she. _Chambers_]

[97 So much, as you, _1633-69:_ So, much as you _Chambers_]

_To the Countesse of_ Bedford.

MADAME,

_I have learn'd by those lawes wherein I am a[1] little conversant, that hee which bestowes any cost upon the dead, obliges him which is dead, but not the[2] heire; I do not therefore send this paper to your Ladyship, that you should thanke mee for it, or thinke that I thanke you in it; your favours and benefits to mee are so much above my merits, that they are even above my gratitude, if that were to be judged by words which must expresse it: But, Madame, since your noble brothers fortune being yours, the evidences also concerning it are yours,[3] so his vertue[4] being yours, the evidences concerning it,[5] belong also to you, of which by your acceptance this may be one peece, in which quality I humbly present it, and as a testimony how intirely your familie possesseth_

Your Ladiships most humble and thankfull servant

JOHN DONNE.

[To the Countesse _&c._ _1633-69_, _and in most of the MSS. as next page_]

[Footnote 1: a _1633-54:_ _om. 1669_]

[Footnote 2: the] his _1669_]

[Footnote 3: yours, _1633:_ yours: _1635-69_]

[Footnote 4: vertue _1633:_ vertues _1635-69_]

[Footnote 5: it, _1633:_ that _1635-69_]

_Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford._

Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee, Then when thou wast infused, harmony, But did'st continue so; and now dost beare A part in Gods great organ, this whole Spheare: If looking up to God; or downe to us, 5 Thou finde that any way is pervious, Twixt heav'n and earth, and that mans actions doe Come to your knowledge, and affections too, See, and with joy, mee to that good degree Of goodnesse growne, that I can studie thee, 10 And, by these meditations refin'd, Can unapparell and enlarge my minde, And so can make by this soft extasie, This place a map of heav'n, my selfe of thee. Thou seest mee here at midnight, now all rest; 15 Times dead-low water; when all mindes devest To morrows businesse, when the labourers have Such rest in bed, that their last Church-yard grave, Subject to change, will scarce be'a type of this, Now when the clyent, whose last hearing is 20 To morrow, sleeps, when the condemned man, (Who when hee opes his eyes, must shut them than Againe by death,) although sad watch hee keepe, Doth practice dying by a little sleepe, Thou at this midnight seest mee, and as soone 25 As that Sunne rises to mee, midnight's noone, All the world growes transparent, and I see Through all, both Church and State, in seeing thee; And I discerne by favour of this light, My selfe, the hardest object of the sight. 30 God is the glasse; as thou when thou dost see Him who sees all, seest all concerning thee, So, yet unglorified, I comprehend All, in these mirrors of thy wayes, and end. Though God be our true glasse, through which we see 35 All, since the beeing of all things is hee, Yet are the trunkes which doe to us derive Things, in proportion fit, by perspective, Deeds of good men; for by their living here, Vertues, indeed remote, seeme to be neare. 40 But where can I affirme, or where arrest My thoughts on his deeds? which shall I call best? For fluid vertue cannot be look'd on, Nor can endure a contemplation. As bodies change, and as I do not weare 45 Those Spirits, humors, blood I did last yeare, And, as if on a streame I fixe mine eye, That drop, which I looked on, is presently Pusht with more waters from my sight, and gone, So in this sea of vertues, can no one 50 Bee'insisted on; vertues, as rivers, passe, Yet still remaines that vertuous man there was. And as if man feed on mans flesh, and so Part of his body to another owe, Yet at the last two perfect bodies rise, 55 Because God knowes where every Atome lyes; So, if one knowledge were made of all those, Who knew his minutes well, hee might dispose His vertues into names, and ranks; but I Should injure Nature, Vertue, and Destinie, 60 Should I divide and discontinue so, Vertue, which did in one intirenesse grow. For as, hee that would say, spirits are fram'd Of all the purest parts that can be nam'd, Honours not spirits halfe so much, as hee 65 Which sayes, they have no parts, but simple bee; So is't of vertue; for a point and one Are much entirer then a million. And had Fate meant to have his vertues told, It would have let him live to have beene old; 70 So, then that vertue in season, and then this, We might have seene, and said, that now he is Witty, now wise, now temperate, now just: In good short lives, vertues are faine to thrust, And to be sure betimes to get a place, 75 When they would exercise, lacke time, and space. So was it in this person, forc'd to bee For lack of time, his owne epitome: So to exhibit in few yeares as much, As all the long breath'd Chronicles can touch. 80 As when an Angell down from heav'n doth flye, Our quick thought cannot keepe him company, Wee cannot thinke, now hee is at the Sunne, Now through the Moon, now he through th'aire doth run, Yet when he's come, we know he did repaire 85 To all twixt Heav'n and Earth, Sunne, Moon, and Aire; And as this Angell in an instant knowes, And yet wee know, this sodaine knowledge growes By quick amassing severall formes of things, Which he successively to order brings; 90 When they, whose slow-pac'd lame thoughts cannot goe So fast as hee, thinke that he doth not so; Just as a perfect reader doth not dwell, On every syllable, nor stay to spell, Yet without doubt, hee doth distinctly see 95 And lay together every A, and B; So, in short liv'd good men, is'not understood Each severall vertue, but the compound good; For, they all vertues paths in that pace tread, As Angells goe, and know, and as men read. 100 O why should then these men, these lumps of Balme Sent hither, this worlds tempests to becalme, Before by deeds they are diffus'd and spred, And so make us alive, themselves be dead? O Soule, O circle, why so quickly bee 105 Thy ends, thy birth and death, clos'd up in thee? Since one foot of thy compasse still was plac'd In heav'n, the other might securely'have pac'd In the most large extent, through every path, Which the whole world, or man the abridgment hath. 110 Thou knowst, that though the tropique circles have (Yea and those small ones which the Poles engrave,) All the same roundnesse, evennesse, and all The endlesnesse of the equinoctiall; Yet, when we come to measure distances, 115 How here, how there, the Sunne affected is, When he doth faintly worke, and when prevaile, Onely great circles, than can be our scale: So, though thy circle to thy selfe expresse All, tending to thy endlesse happinesse, 120 And wee, by our good use of it may trye, Both how to live well young, and how to die, Yet, since we must be old, and age endures His Torrid Zone at Court, and calentures Of hot ambitions, irrelegions ice, 125 Zeales agues, and hydroptique avarice, Infirmities which need the scale of truth, As well as lust, and ignorance of youth; Why did'st thou not for these give medicines too, And by thy doing tell us what to doe? 130 Though as small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele Doth each mismotion and distemper feele, Whose _hand_ gets shaking palsies, and whose _string_ (His sinewes) slackens, and whose _Soule_, the spring, Expires, or languishes, whose pulse, the _flye_, 135 Either beates not, or beates unevenly, Whose voice, the _Bell_, doth rattle, or grow dumbe, Or idle,'as men, which to their last houres come, If these clockes be not wound, or be wound still, Or be not set, or set at every will; 140 So, youth is easiest to destruction, If then wee follow all, or follow none. Yet, as in great clocks, which in steeples chime, Plac'd to informe whole towns, to'imploy their time, An error doth more harme, being generall, 145 When, small clocks faults, only'on the wearer fall; So worke the faults of age, on which the eye Of children, servants, or the State relie. Why wouldst not thou then, which hadst such a soule, A clock so true, as might the Sunne controule, 150 And daily hadst from him, who gave it thee, Instructions, such as it could never be Disordered, stay here, as a generall And great Sun-dyall, to have set us All? O why wouldst thou be any instrument 155 To this unnaturall course, or why consent To this, not miracle, but Prodigie, That when the ebbs, longer then flowings be, Vertue, whose flood did with thy youth begin, Should so much faster ebb out, then flow in? 160 Though her flood was blowne in, by thy first breath, All is at once sunke in the whirle-poole death. Which word I would not name, but that I see Death, else a desert, growne a Court by thee. Now I grow sure, that if a man would have 165 Good companie, his entry is a grave. Mee thinkes all Cities, now, but Anthills bee, Where, when the severall labourers I see, For children, house, Provision, taking paine, They'are all but Ants, carrying eggs, straw, and grain; 170 And Church-yards are our cities, unto which The most repaire, that are in goodnesse rich. There is the best concourse, and confluence, There are the holy suburbs, and from thence Begins Gods City, New Jerusalem, 175 Which doth extend her utmost gates to them. At that gate then Triumphant soule, dost thou Begin thy Triumph; But since lawes allow That at the Triumph day, the people may, All that they will, 'gainst the Triumpher say, 180 Let me here use that freedome, and expresse My griefe, though not to make thy Triumph lesse. By law, to Triumphs none admitted bee, Till they as Magistrates get victorie; Though then to thy force, all youthes foes did yield, 185 Yet till fit time had brought thee to that field, To which thy ranke in this state destin'd thee, That there thy counsailes might get victorie, And so in that capacitie remove All jealousies 'twixt Prince and subjects love, 190 Thou could'st no title, to this triumph have, Thou didst intrude on death, usurp'dst a grave. Then (though victoriously) thou hadst fought as yet But with thine owne affections, with the heate Of youths desires, and colds of ignorance, 195 But till thou should'st successefully advance Thine armes 'gainst forraine enemies, which are Both Envy, and acclamations popular, (For, both these engines equally defeate, Though by a divers Mine, those which are great,) 200 Till then thy War was but a civill War, For which to Triumph, none admitted are. No more are they, who though with good successe, In a defensive war, their power expresse; Before men triumph, the dominion 205 Must be _enlarg'd_ and not _preserv'd_ alone; Why should'st thou then, whose battailes were to win Thy selfe, from those straits nature put thee in, And to deliver up to God that state, Of which he gave thee the vicariate, 210 (Which is thy soule and body) as intire As he, who takes endeavours, doth require, But didst not stay, t'enlarge his kingdome too, By making others, what thou didst, to doe; Why shouldst thou Triumph now, when Heav'n no more 216 Hath got, by getting thee, then't had before? For, Heav'n and thou, even when thou livedst here, Of one another in possession were. But this from Triumph most disables thee, That, that place which is conquered, must bee 220 Left safe from present warre, and likely doubt Of imminent commotions to breake out: And hath he left us so? or can it bee His territory was no more then Hee? No, we were all his charge, the Diocis 225 Of ev'ry exemplar man, the whole world is, And he was joyned in commission With Tutelar Angels, sent to every one. But though this freedome to upbraid, and chide Him who Triumph'd, were lawfull, it was ty'd 230 With this, that it might never reference have Unto the Senate, who this triumph gave; Men might at Pompey jeast, but they might not At that authoritie, by which he got Leave to Triumph, before, by age, he might; 235 So, though, triumphant soule, I dare to write, Mov'd with a reverentiall anger, thus, That thou so earely wouldst abandon us; Yet I am farre from daring to dispute With that great soveraigntie, whose absolute 240 Prerogative hath thus dispens'd with thee, 'Gainst natures lawes, which just impugners bee Of early triumphs; And I (though with paine) Lessen our losse, to magnifie thy gaine Of triumph, when I say, It was more fit, 245 That all men should lacke thee, then thou lack it. Though then in our time, be not suffered That testimonie of love, unto the dead, To die with them, and in their graves be hid, As Saxon wives, and French soldurii did; 250 And though in no degree I can expresse Griefe in great Alexanders great excesse, Who at his friends death, made whole townes devest Their walls and bullwarks which became them best: Doe not, faire soule, this sacrifice refuse, 255 That in thy grave I doe interre my Muse, Who, by my griefe, great as thy worth, being cast Behind hand, yet hath spoke, and spoke her last.

[Obsequies to _&c._ _B_, _S96_ _and similarly_ _A25_, _C_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TCD:_ Obsequies to the Lord Harringtons brother. To the Countesse of Bedford. _1633-54:_ Obsequies on the Lord Harrington, &c. To the Countess of Bedford. _1669_]

[7 mans _1633_, _D_, _H49:_ mens _1635-69 and most MSS_.]

[11 these _1633-69:_ those _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S_, _TCD_]

[15 midnight, now _1633-69:_ midnight; now _Chambers:_ midnight now, _Grolier_]

[26 that Sunne] this Sunne _N_, _TCD_]

[30 hardest] hardyest _1669_]

[34 end. _D:_ end; _1633-69_]

[35 our true glasse, _1633-69_ (glass, _1633_): truly our glass _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_

see] see. _1633_ _some copies_, _1635_]

[38 Things, in proportion fit, by perspective, _D:_ Things, in proportion fit by perspective, _1633:_ Things, in proportion, fit by perspective, _1635-54_, _Chambers:_ Things in proportion, fit by perspective, _1669_. _See note_]

[39 men; _D:_ men, _1633:_ men: _1635-69_]

living _1633:_ beeing _1635-69_, _Chambers and Grolier_]

[40 neare. _1635-69:_ nere; _1633_]

[44 contemplation. _Ed:_ contemplation; _1633-69_]

[51 on; _Ed:_ on, _1633-69_]

[52 was. _Ed:_ was; _1633-69_]

[53 feed _1635-69 and MSS.:_ feeds _1633_]

[63 would _1633:_ should _1635-69_]

[69 to have his _1633_, _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD:_ to'have had his _1635-69_, _O'F_, _Chambers_]

[70 old; _Ed:_ old, _1633-39:_ old. _1650-69_]

[71 So, then that _Ed:_ So then, that _1633:_ So, then, that _1635-69_]

[76 exercise] exercse _1633_ _some copies:_ encrease _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ exercise: they _S_

lacke _1633-54:_ last _1669_

time] room _A25_, _B_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_]

[78 epitome: _D:_ epitome. _1633-69_]

[80 Chronicles] Chroniclers _1669_

can touch.] can touch; _1633_]

[84 he] _om. 1669_, _O'F_]

[86 Aire; _1669:_ Aire. _1633-35:_ Air, _1639-54_]

[87 instant] instant, _1633_]

[98 good; _Ed:_ good. _1633-69_]

[102 this _A25_, _B_, _C_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TCD:_ the _1633-69_

tempests _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _S96_, _TCD:_ tempest _1633-69_, _O'F_, _S_]

[106 death, _Ed:_ death _1633-69_]

[110 man] man, _1633_

hath.] hath, _1633_ _some copies_, _1633-39_]

[117 When ... when _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ Where ... where _rest of MSS._]

[118 circles, than can _D:_ circles, then, can _1633-69_]

[121 it] that _many MSS._]

[125 ambitions,] ambition, _1669_]

[126 agues, _Ed:_ agues; _1633-69_]

[127-8 _in brackets_ _1635-69_]

[128 As well as lust, _1669:_ As well, as lust _1633-54_]

[130 tell us _1633_, _1669_, _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _S_, _TCD:_ set us _1635-54_, _B_, _O'F_, _S96_, _and Chambers_]

[133 _hand_ gets _A25_, _B_, _C_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _S_, _TCD:_ _hands_ get _1633-54:_ _hands_ gets _1669_. _See note_]

[135 _flye_, _1633:_ _flee_, _1635-69_]

[138 houres come, _1633-54:_ hour come, _1669:_ hours are come, _Chambers_]

[142 none. _1635-69:_ none; _1633_]

[146 fall; _Ed:_ fall. _1633-69_]

[154 great] grave _A25_, _C_]

[155 wouldst] wouldest _1639-54_

any _1633-35_, _and MSS.:_ an _1639-69_, _Chambers_]

[158 when _1633-69:_ where _C_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TCD:_ whereas _B_]

[161 was _1633:_ were _1635-69_]

[165 grow sure, _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ am sure, _1635-69_]

[170 and _1633-69:_ or _A25_, _B_, _C_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_]

[176 them. _D:_ them; _1633_, _1639-69:_ them, _1635_]

[178 Triumph; _1633:_ Triumph. _1635-69_]

[184 victorie; _Ed:_ victorie, _1633-69_]

[186 brought] wrought _1639_, _Chambers_]

[192 usurp'dst _B_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _TCD:_ usurp'st _1633_, _Lec_, _S96:_ usurpe _1635-69_, _A25_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Chambers_]

[193 Then _1635-69:_ That _1633_]

[198 acclamations _1669_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD:_ acclamation _1633-54_]

[202 are. _D:_ are; _1633-69_]

[204 expresse; _Ed:_ expresse. _1633-69_]

[212 endeavours, _1633-54_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD:_ Indentours, _1669_, _Chambers_]

[216 'thad] t'had _1633-39_]

[218 were. _D:_ were; _1633-69_]

[222 out: _1635-69:_ out. _1633_]

[224 His _1633-54:_ This _1669_

then _1633-69:_ but _D_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_]

[231 reference] reverence _1650-54_]

[239 I am] am I _B_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_]

[241 with _1633-69_, _O'F:_ for _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_]

[247 time,] times, _1669_, _B_, _JC_, _O'F_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TCD_]

[250 soldurii _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ soldarii _1633-69_]

[251 expresse] expresse, _1633_]

[257 Who, _1633:_ Which, _1639-69_]

_Elegie on the Lady_ Marckham.

Man is the World, and death th'Ocean, To which God gives the lower parts of man. This Sea invirons all, and though as yet God hath set markes, and bounds, twixt us and it, Yet doth it rore, and gnaw, and still pretend, 5 And breaks our bankes, when ere it takes a friend. Then our land waters (teares of passion) vent; Our waters, then, above our firmament, (Teares which our Soule doth for her sins let fall) Take all a brackish taft, and Funerall, 10 And even these teares, which should wash sin, are sin. We, after Gods _Noe_, drowne our world againe. Nothing but man of all invenom'd things Doth worke upon itselfe, with inborne stings. Teares are false Spectacles, we cannot see 15 Through passions mist, what wee are, or what shee. In her this sea of death hath made no breach, But as the tide doth wash the slimie beach, And leaves embroder'd workes upon the sand, So is her flesh refin'd by deaths cold hand. 20 As men of China,'after an ages stay, Do take up Porcelane, where they buried Clay; So at this grave, her limbecke, which refines The Diamonds, Rubies, Saphires, Pearles, and Mines, Of which this flesh was, her soule shall inspire 25 Flesh of such stuffe, as God, when his last fire Annuls this world, to recompence it, shall, Make and name then, th'Elixar of this All. They say, the sea, when it gaines, loseth too; If carnall Death (the yonger brother) doe 30 Usurpe the body,'our soule, which subject is To th'elder death, by sinne, is freed by this; They perish both, when they attempt the just; For, graves our trophies are, and both deaths dust. So, unobnoxious now, she'hath buried both; 35 For, none to death sinnes, that to sinne is loth, Nor doe they die, which are not loth to die; So hath she this, and that virginity. Grace was in her extremely diligent, That kept her from sinne, yet made her repent. 40 Of what small spots pure white complaines! Alas, How little poyson cracks a christall glasse! She sinn'd, but just enough to let us see That God's word must be true, All, sinners be. Soe much did zeale her conscience rarefie 45 That, extreme truth lack'd little of a lye, Making omissions, acts; laying the touch Of sinne, on things that sometimes may be such. As _Moses_ Cherubines, whose natures doe Surpasse all speed, by him are winged too: 50 So would her soule, already'in heaven, seeme then, To clyme by teares, the common staires of men. How fit she was for God, I am content To speake, that Death his vaine hast may repent. How fit for us, how even and how sweet, 55 How good in all her titles, and how meet, To have reform'd this forward heresie, That women can no parts of friendship bee; How Morall, how Divine shall not be told, Lest they that heare her vertues, thinke her old: 60 And lest we take Deaths part, and make him glad Of such a prey, and to his tryumph adde.

[Elegie _&c._ _1633-54:_ An Elegie _&c._ _1669:_ _similarly_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S96_, _TC_]

[6 And breaks _1633-54:_ To break _1669_

bankes _D_, _Cy_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _TCC:_ bounds _A25_, _C:_ banke, _1633-69_, _N_ (s _added_), _TCD_]

[8 firmament,] firmament. _1633_]

[10 Funerall, _Ed:_ Funerall. _1633-69_]

[11 these _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ those _1633-69_]

[12 after Gods _Noe_, drowne _1633-54_ (_No_, _1633-54_): after God, new drown _1669_

our world _1669_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TCD:_ the world _1633-54_, _A18_, _A25_, _JC_, _TCC_]

[16 mist] mistes _Cy_, _L74_, _N_, _TCD_]

[19 embroder'd _1635-54:_ embroderd _1633:_ embroider'd _1669_]

[21 stay, _Ed:_ stay _1633-69_]

[25 which _Ed:_ which, _1633-69_]

[28 then, _1633:_ then _1635-39:_ them _1650-69_]

[34 and both deaths dust. _Ed:_ and both Deaths' dust. _Grolier:_ and both, deaths dust. _1633:_ and both death's dust. _1635-69 and Chambers:_ and both dead dust. _D_, _Cy_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _S96_. _See note_]

[36 loth, _Ed:_ loth. _1633-69_]

[37 die; _Ed:_ die, _1633-69_]

[42 cracks _1633-69_, _A25_, _Cy_, _P_ (crackt): breakes _A18_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC_

glasse! _Ed:_ glasse? _1633-69_]

[44-5 _omitted in 1633 between foot of one page and top of next_]

[45 rarefie,] rectify, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _S96_]

[48 sometimes _1633 and MSS.:_ sometime _1635-69_, _and Chambers_]

[52 teares,] tears _Chambers_

the ... men _in brackets_ _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[54 Death _D:_ death _1633-69_]

[58 women _1635-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _TC:_ woman _1633_, _Cy_

parts] parte _Cy_, _JC_. _This line written in large letters in several MSS._]

[60 vertues, _1633-35_, _1669:_ vertue, _1639-54_

thinke] thinks _1639_

old: _Ed:_ old. _1633-69_]

[62 tryumph _1633-69_, _A25_, _D_, _H40_, _Lec:_ triumphes _A18_, _B_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TC_]

_Elegie on M^{ris}_ Boulstred.

Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee What ere hath slip'd, that might diminish thee. Spirituall treason, atheisme 'tis, to say, That any can thy Summons disobey. Th'earths face is but thy Table; there are set 5 Plants, cattell, men, dishes for Death to eate. In a rude hunger now hee millions drawes Into his bloody, or plaguy, or sterv'd jawes. Now hee will seeme to spare, and doth more wast, Eating the best first, well preserv'd to last. 10 Now wantonly he spoiles, and eates us not, But breakes off friends, and lets us peecemeale rot. Nor will this earth serve him; he sinkes the deepe Where harmelesse fish monastique silence keepe, Who (were Death dead) by Roes of living sand, 15 Might spunge that element, and make it land. He rounds the aire, and breakes the hymnique notes In birds (Heavens choristers,) organique throats, Which (if they did not dye) might seeme to bee A tenth ranke in the heavenly hierarchie. 20 O strong and long-liv'd death, how cam'st thou in? And how without Creation didst begin? Thou hast, and shalt see dead, before thou dyest, All the foure Monarchies, and Antichrist. How could I thinke thee nothing, that see now 25 In all this All, nothing else is, but thou. Our births and lives, vices, and vertues, bee Wastfull consumptions, and degrees of thee. For, wee to live, our bellowes weare, and breath, Nor are wee mortall, dying, dead, but death. 30 And though thou beest, O mighty bird of prey, So much reclaim'd by God, that thou must lay All that thou kill'st at his feet, yet doth hee Reserve but few, and leaves the most to thee. And of those few, now thou hast overthrowne 35 One whom thy blow makes, not ours, nor thine own. She was more stories high: hopelesse to come To her Soule, thou'hast offer'd at her lower roome. Her Soule and body was a King and Court: But thou hast both of Captaine mist and fort. 40 As houses fall not, though the King remove, Bodies of Saints rest for their soules above. Death gets 'twixt soules and bodies such a place As sinne insinuates 'twixt just men and grace, Both worke a separation, no divorce. 45 Her Soule is gone to usher up her corse Which shall be'almost another soule, for there Bodies are purer, then best Soules are here, Because in her, her virtues did outgoe Her yeares, would'st thou, O emulous death, do so? 50 And kill her young to thy losse? must the cost Of beauty,'and wit, apt to doe harme, be lost? What though thou found'st her proofe 'gainst sins of youth? Oh, every age a diverse sinne pursueth. Thou should'st have stay'd, and taken better hold, 55 Shortly, ambitious; covetous, when old, She might have prov'd: and such devotion Might once have stray'd to superstition. If all her vertues must have growne, yet might Abundant virtue'have bred a proud delight. 60 Had she persever'd just, there would have bin Some that would sinne, mis-thinking she did sinne. Such as would call her friendship, love, and faine To sociablenesse, a name profane; Or sinne, by tempting, or, not daring that, 65 By wishing, though they never told her what. Thus might'st thou'have slain more soules, had'st thou not crost Thy selfe, and to triumph, thine army lost. Yet though these wayes be lost, thou hast left one, Which is, immoderate griefe that she is gone. 70 But we may scape that sinne, yet weepe as much, Our teares are due, because we are not such. Some teares, that knot of friends, her death must cost, Because the chaine is broke, though no linke lost.

[Elegie on M^{ris} Boulstred. _1633-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ _in_ _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_ _this and the_ Elegie, Death, be not proud (_p._ 416) _are given as one poem_. _See note_]

[5 there are set] and the meate _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _TC_]

[6 dishes _1633_, _1650-69:_ dished _1635-39_, _A18_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TC_]

[10 first,] fruite _or_ fruites _A18_, _H49_, _L74_, _N_, _TC:_ first fruit _P_]

[14 keepe, _1635-39:_ keepe. _1633_, _1650-69_]

[15 by Roes _1633:_ the Roes _1635-54:_ the Rows _1669:_ by rows _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _TC_]

[18 birds _Ed:_ birds, _1633-69_ (Heavens choristers)] _brackets from HN_]

[27 lives, _1635-69_, _A25_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _S:_ lifes, _HN:_ life, _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _TC_]

[34 to thee. _1633:_ for thee. _1635-69_]

[35 thou hast _1633-69:_ hast thou _HN_]

[36 blow] blow, _1633_]

[41 King _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _HN_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _TC:_ Kings _1635-69_]

[45 worke _1633-69_, _HN_, _O'F_, _S:_ workes _A18_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TC:_ makes _Lec_. _See note_]

[56 Shortly,] Shortly _1633_

ambitious; _1635-69:_ ambitious, _1633_]

[62 mis-thinking] mistaking _Cy_, _HN_, _O'F_ (_but altered to text_)]

[64 profane; _1669:_ profane, _1635-54:_ profane. _1633_]

[74 though _1635-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _HN_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ but _1633_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec_]

[_Here follow in 1635-54_ By our first strange (_p._ 111), Madame, That I (_p._ 291), _and_ Death be not proud, (_p._ 422). _In 1669_ My Fortune and (_p._ 292) _precedes_ Madame, That I]

ELEGIE.

_Death._

Language thou art too narrow, and too weake To ease us now; great sorrow cannot speake; If we could sigh out accents, and weepe words, Griefe weares, and lessens, that tears breath affords. Sad hearts, the lesse they seeme the more they are, 5 (So guiltiest men stand mutest at the barre) Not that they know not, feele not their estate, But extreme sense hath made them desperate. Sorrow, to whom we owe all that we bee; Tyrant, in the fift and greatest Monarchy, 10 Was't, that she did possesse all hearts before, Thou hast kil'd her, to make thy Empire more? Knew'st thou some would, that knew her not, lament, As in a deluge perish th'innocent? Was't not enough to have that palace wonne, 15 But thou must raze it too, that was undone? Had'st thou staid there, and look'd out at her eyes, All had ador'd thee that now from thee flies, For they let out more light, then they tooke in, They told not when, but did the day beginne. 20 She was too Saphirine, and cleare for thee; Clay, flint, and jeat now thy fit dwellings be; Alas, shee was too pure, but not too weake; Who e'r saw Christall Ordinance but would break? And if wee be thy conquest, by her fall 25 Th'hast lost thy end, for in her perish all; Or if we live, we live but to rebell, They know her better now, that knew her well. If we should vapour out, and pine, and die; Since, shee first went, that were not miserie. 30 Shee chang'd our world with hers; now she is gone, Mirth and prosperity is oppression; For of all morall vertues she was all, The Ethicks speake of vertues Cardinall. Her soule was Paradise; the Cherubin 35 Set to keepe it was grace, that kept out sinne. Shee had no more then let in death, for wee All reape consumption from one fruitfull tree. God tooke her hence, lest some of us should love Her, like that plant, him and his lawes above, 40 And when wee teares, hee mercy shed in this, To raise our mindes to heaven where now she is; Who if her vertues would have let her stay Wee'had had a Saint, have now a holiday. Her heart was that strange bush, where, sacred fire, 45 Religion, did not consume, but'inspire Such piety, so chast use of Gods day, That what we turne to _feast_, she turn'd to _pray_, And did prefigure here, in devout tast, The rest of her high Sabaoth, which shall last. 50 Angels did hand her up, who next God dwell, (For she was of that order whence most fell) Her body left with us, lest some had said, Shee could not die, except they saw her dead; For from lesse vertue, and lesse beautiousnesse, 55 The Gentiles fram'd them Gods and Goddesses. The ravenous earth that now wooes her to be Earth too, will be a _Lemnia_; and the tree That wraps that christall in a wooden Tombe, Shall be tooke up spruce, fill'd with diamond; 60 And we her sad glad friends all beare a part Of griefe, for all would waste a Stoicks heart.

[Elegie. _1633:_ Elegie XI. Death. _1635-54_ (_being places among the_ Elegies): Elegie XI. _1669:_ An Elegie upon the death of M^{ris} Boulstred. _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _H40_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ _no title, HN_]

[2 sorrow _1633_, _B_, _Cy_, _H40_, _HN_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TC:_ sorrowes _1635-69_, _O'F_, _S_]

[8 desperate. _Ed:_ desperate; _1633-69_]

[10 Tyrant, _1633_, _1669_ (_no comma_): Tyran, _1635-54_]

[20 beginne. _Ed:_ beginne; _1633-69_]

[21 for _1635-69:_ to _1633_]

[26 for in her _1633 and all the MSS.:_ in her we _1635-69_, _Chambers_]

[28 They ... that ... well; _1633_, _Cy_, _H40_, _HN_, _L74_, _N_, _S_, _TC:_ That know her better now, who knew her well. _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_]

[29 and pine, and] or pine, or _Cy_, _H40_, _HN_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96:_ or pine, and _L74_, _TCC_]

[30 miserie. _Ed:_ miserie; _1633-69_]

[34 The Ethicks speake _1633_, _A18_, _Cy_, _H40_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TC:_ That Ethickes speake _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_, _S:_ The ethenickes spake _HN_

Cardinall. _Ed:_ Cardinall; _1633-69_]

[36 that kept out] to keep out _HN_, _P_

sinne. _Ed:_ sinne; _1633-69_]

[37 She had no more; then let in death for we _1669_]

[38 tree. _Ed:_ tree; _1633-69_]

[41-2 And when we see his mercy shewne in this 'Twill _&c._ _S_]

[44 holiday. _Ed:_ holiday; _1633-69_

_All the MSS. omit_ have, _but O'F inserts it later_]

[48 That what _1633-69:_ That when _HN_

turne] turn'd _Cy_, _HN_, _P_, _S96_

to _feast_, _Ed:_ to feast, _1633-69_

feast] feasts _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_

to _pray_, _Ed:_ to pray, _1633-69_]

[50 last.] last; _1633_]

[53 Her body left _1633_, _A18_, _HN_, _N_, _TC:_ Her bodie's left _1635-69_]

[56 fram'd] fain'd _Cy_, _P:_ form'd _H40_, _HN_]

[57 wooes] woes _1633_

be] be, _1633_]

[58 _All the MSS. omit_ a _before_ Lemnia, _but O'F inserts_]

[61 sad glad _1633-69:_ glad sad _B_, _Cy_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_]

[62 waste _1633_, _A18_, _Cy_, _H40_, _HN_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _TC:_ breake _1635-69_, _B_, _O'F_]

_Elegie on the L. C._

Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way: Is, Oh, heire of it, our All is his prey. This strange chance claimes strange wonder, and to us Nothing can be so strange, as to weepe thus. 'Tis well his lifes loud speaking workes deserve, 5 And give praise too, our cold tongues could not serve: 'Tis well, hee kept teares from our eyes before, That to fit this deepe ill, we might have store. Oh, if a sweet briar, climbe up by'a tree, If to a paradise that transplanted bee, 10 Or fell'd, and burnt for holy sacrifice, Yet, that must wither, which by it did rise, As we for him dead: though no familie Ere rigg'd a soule for heavens discoverie With whom more Venturers more boldly dare 15 Venture their states, with him in joy to share. Wee lose what all friends lov'd, him; he gaines now But life by death, which worst foes would allow, If hee could have foes, in whose practise grew All vertues, whose names subtile Schoolmen knew. 20 What ease, can hope that wee shall see'him, beget, When wee must die first, and cannot dye yet? His children are his pictures, Oh they bee Pictures of him dead, senselesse, cold as he. Here needs no marble Tombe, since hee is gone, 25 He, and about him, his, are turn'd to stone.

[Elegie _&c._ _1635-69_, _following_ Death be not proud (_p._ 422): Elegie, Funerall Elegie, _or no title_, _B_, _Cy_, _HN_, _O'F_, _S96:_ Elegie VI. (_being placed among the_ Elegies) _1633:_ Elegie. (_being eighth among_ Elegies) _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ Elegia tercia. _S:_ Elegie XIII^a. _JC_, _W_]

[1 who _1633-39:_ that _1650-69_]

[2 prey. _1633:_ prey, _1633-54:_ Pay. _1669_]

[4 thus. _1669:_ thus; _1633-54_]

[13 dead: _1633-69:_ dead. _HN_, _Grolier_]

[16 Venture their states] Venter estates _B_

share. _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _W:_ share _1633:_ share, _1635-69_, _Chambers and Grolier_. _See note_]

[17 him;] him, _1633_]

[20 names] name _1635-69_

knew. _Ed:_ knew; _1635-69_]

[24 he. _1650-69:_ he, _1633-39_]

_An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton._

_To Sir Robert Carr._

SIR,

_I Presume you rather try what you can doe in me, then what I can doe in verse; you know my uttermost when it was best, and even then I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. In this present case there is so much truth as it defeats all Poetry. Call therefore this paper by what name you will, and, if it bee not worthy of him, nor of you, nor of mee, smother it, and bee that the sacrifice. If you had commanded mee to have waited on his body to Scotland and preached there, I would have embraced the obligation with more alacrity; But, I thanke you that you would command me that which I was loath to doe, for, even that hath given a tincture of merit to the obedience of_

Your poore friend and servant in Christ Jesus

I. D.

[2 verse; _1635-69:_ verse, _1633_]

[3 best] at the best _A18_, _TCC_

subjects. _1635-69:_ subjects, _1633:_ subject, _A18_, _TCC_]

[6-7 of him ... sacrifice. _1635-69:_ of you nor of him, we will smother it, and be it your sacrifice. _1633:_ of him, nor of you, nor of anye; smother it, and bee that the sacrifice. _A18_, _TCC_]

[9 the _1635-69:_ your _1633_, _A18_, _TCC_

more] much _1633_]

[10 loath] loather _1633_]

in Christ Jesus] _om._ _A18_, _TCC_]

Whether that soule which now comes up to you Fill any former ranke or make a new; Whether it take a name nam'd there before, Or be a name it selfe, and _order_ more Then was in heaven till now; (for may not hee 5 Bee so, if every severall Angell bee A _kind_ alone?) What ever order grow Greater by him in heaven, wee doe not so. One of your orders growes by his accesse; But, by his losse grow all our _orders_ lesse; 10 The name of _Father_, _Master_, _Friend_, the name Of _Subject_ and of _Prince_, in one are lame; Faire mirth is dampt, and conversation black, The _household_ widdow'd, and the _garter_ slack; The _Chappell_ wants an eare, _Councell_ a tongue; 15 _Story_, a theame; and _Musicke_ lacks a song; Blest _order_ that hath him! the losse of him Gangreend all _Orders_ here; all lost a limbe. Never made body such hast to confesse What a soule was; All former comelinesse 20 Fled, in a minute, when the soule was gone, And, having lost that beauty, would have none; So fell our _Monasteries_, in one instant growne Not to lesse houses, but, to heapes of stone; So sent this body that faire forme it wore, 25 Unto the spheare of formes, and doth (before His soule shall fill up his sepulchrall stone,) Anticipate a Resurrection; For, as in his fame, now, his soule is here, So, in the forme thereof his bodie's there. 30 And if, faire soule, not with first _Innocents_ Thy station be, but with the _Pænitents_, (And, who shall dare to aske then when I am Dy'd scarlet in the blood of that pure Lambe, Whether that colour, which is scarlet then, 35 Were black or white before in eyes of men?) When thou rememb'rest what sins thou didst finde Amongst those many friends now left behinde, And seest such sinners as they are, with thee Got thither by repentance, Let it bee 40 Thy wish to wish all there, to wish them cleane; Wim _him_ a _David_, _her_ a _Magdalen_.

[An hymne _&c._ _1633-69_, _in all of which it is classed with the_ Divine Poems, _following_ Resurrection. _In 1635-69 it is preceded by the letter_ To Sir Robert Carr.: _in 1633 the letter follows_, _and has no heading:_ _similarly in_ _A18_, _O'F_, _TCC_. _See note_]

[1 Whether] Whither _1633_, _and so in_ 3]

[2 new; _Ed:_ new, _1633-69_]

[6 so,] so? _1633_]

[7 alone?) _1635-54:_ alone;) _1633:_ alone) _1669_]

[8 so. _Ed:_ so; _1633-69_]

[12 are _1633_, _A18_, _TCC:_ is _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[16 song; _1633:_ song. _1635-69_]

[17 him! _Ed:_ him, _1633-69_]

[18 Gangreend _1635-69:_ Gangred _1633_

limbe. _1633-35:_ limbe: _1639-69_]

[22 none; _Ed:_ none: _1650-69:_ none, _1633-39_]

[23 one instant _1633:_ an instant _1635-69_]

[25 this _1633_, _A18_, _TCC:_ his _1635-69_]

[29 For, as in his _1633-39:_ For, as it his _1650-54:_ For, as it is his _1669_]

[30 there. _Ed:_ there; _1633-39:_ there, _1650-69_]

[36 in eyes] in the eyes _A18_, _O'F_, _TCC_]

EPITAPHS.

EPITAPH ON HIMSELFE.

_To the Countesse of Bedford._

MADAME,

That I might make your Cabinet my tombe, And for my fame which I love next my soule, Next to my soule provide the happiest roome, Admit to that place this last funerall Scrowle. Others by Wills give Legacies, but I 5 Dying, of you doe beg a Legacie.

My fortune and my will this custome breake, When we are senselesse grown to make stones speak, Though no stone tell thee what I was, yet thou In my graves inside see what thou art now: 10 Yet th'art not yet so good; till us death lay To ripe and mellow there, w'are stubborne clay, Parents make us earth, and soules dignifie Vs to be glasse, here to grow gold we lie; Whilst in our soules sinne bred and pampered is, 15 Our soules become worme-eaten Carkasses.

[Epitaph. _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_

On himselfe. _1635-69_

To the Countesse of Bedford. _O'F_, _S96:_ _no heading, and epistle only_, _A25_, _C_ _The introductory epistle, and the first ten lines of the epitaph, the whole with heading_ Elegie., _is printed 1635-54 among the_ Funerall Elegies. _The full epitaph without epistle and with heading_ On himselfe. _is included among the_ Divine Poems, _where it follows the_ Lamentations of Jeremy. _In his note Chambers_ (II. 234) _reverses these facts_. _In 1669_ On himselfe. _is transferred to the_ Funerall Elegies _and is followed immediately by the_ Elegie, _i.e. the epistle and incomplete epitaph_. _They are here given for the first time in a separate group_]

[5 Others by Wills _1635-69:_ Others by testaments _A25_, _C_, _O'F_ (_altered to_ wills), _S96:_ Men by testament _B:_ Then by testament _H40:_ O then by testament _D_, _H49_]

[10 now: _1650-69:_ now, _1635-39_]

[12 there, _1635_, _1669:_ thee, _1639-54_]

_Omnibus._

My Fortune and my choice this custome break, When we are speechlesse grown, to make stones speak, Though no stone tell thee what I was, yet thou In my graves inside seest what thou art now: Yet thou'art not yet so good, till death us lay 5 To ripe and mellow here, we are stubborne Clay. Parents make us earth, and soules dignifie Vs to be glasse; here to grow gold we lie. Whilst in our soules sinne bred and pamper'd is, Our soules become wormeaten carkases; 10 So we our selves miraculously destroy. Here bodies with lesse miracle enjoy Such priviledges, enabled here to scale Heaven, when the Trumpets ayre shall them exhale. Heare this, and mend thy selfe, and thou mendst me, 15 By making me being dead, doe good to thee, And thinke me well compos'd, that I could now A last-sicke houre to syllables allow.

[Omnibus. _D_, _H49:_ To all. _H40_, _RP31:_ Another on the same. (_i.e. M^{rs} Boulstred_) _P:_ On himselfe. _1635-69:_ _no title_, _B_, _S96:_ _in MSS. this complete epitaph follows the epistle_ (_p._ 291); _but in B they are separated by various poems and in P the epistle is not given_]

[3 tell] tel _1635_]

[4 seest] see _D_, _H49:_ _compare incomplete version_.]

[5 Yet _1635-69:_ Nay _S96_

thou'art _Ed:_ thou art _1635-69_]

[8 lie. _Ed:_ lie; _1635-69_]

[14 them] then _1669_]

[16 to thee, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _O'F_, _S96:_ for thee, _1635-69_]

INFINITATI SACRUM,

16. _Augusti_ 1601.

METEMPSYCHOSIS.

_Poêma Satyricon._

* * * * *

EPISTLE.

Others at the Porches and entries of their Buildings set their Armes; I, my picture; if any colours can deliver a minde so plaine, and flat, and through light as mine. Naturally at a new Author, I doubt, and sticke, and doe not say quickly, good. I censure much and taxe; And this liberty costs mee more then others, by how much my owne things are worse then others. Yet I would not be so rebellious against my selfe, as not to doe it, since I love it; nor so unjust to others, to do it _sine talione_. As long as I give them as good hold upon mee, they must pardon mee my bitings. I forbid no reprehender, but him that like the Trent Councell forbids not bookes, but Authors, damning what ever such a name hath or shall write. None writes so ill, that he gives not some thing exemplary, to follow, or flie. Now when I beginne this booke, I have no purpose to come into any mans debt[1]; how my stocke will hold out I know not; perchance waste, perchance increase in use; if I doe borrow any thing of Antiquitie, besides that I make account that I pay it to posterity, with as much and as good: You shall still finde mee to acknowledge it, and to thanke not him onely that hath digg'd out treasure for mee, but that hath lighted mee a candle to the place. All which I will bid you remember, (for I will have no such Readers as I can teach) is, that the Pithagorian doctrine doth not onely carry one soule from man to man, nor man to beast, but indifferently to plants also: and therefore you must not grudge to finde the same soule in an Emperour, in a Post-horse, and in a Mucheron,[2] since no unreadinesse in the soule, but an indisposition in the organs workes this. And therefore though this soule could not move when it was a Melon, yet it may remember, and now tell mee,[3] at what lascivious banquet it was serv'd. And though it could not speake, when it was a spider, yet it can remember and now tell me, who used it for poyson to attaine dignitie. How ever the bodies have dull'd her other faculties, her memory hath ever been her owne, which makes me so seriously deliver you by her relation all her passages from her first making when shee was that apple[4] which Eve eate,[5] to this time when shee is hee,[6] whose life you shall finde in the end of this booke.

[Infinitati _&c._ _1633-69:_ (_in 1633 it is the first poem; in 1633-69 it follows the_ Funerall Elegies, _from which it is separated by some prose letters, and precedes_ Divine Poems _as here_), _A18_, _G_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_

Metempsychosis. _1650-69:_ Metempsycosis. _1633-39_]

[Footnote 1: debt; _Ed:_ debt, _1633-69_]

[Footnote 2: Mucheron, _1633_, _N_, _TC:_ Mushrome, _G:_ Maceron, _1635-69_, _O'F_]

[Footnote 3: and can now tell mee, _1635-69_]

[Footnote 4: apple] aple _1633_]

[Footnote 5: eate, _1633-69:_ ate, _O'F:_ eat, _mod. editors_]

[Footnote 6: shee is hee, _1633_, _A18_, _G_, _N_, _TC:_ shee is shee, _1635-69_]

THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.

_First Song._