tO w a cumbersome unwieldiness
And burdenous corpulence my love had grown,
But t I did, to make it less,
And keep it in proportion,
Give it a diet, made it feed upon
t ion
Above one sig,
Of s ;
And if sometimes by stealt
A sress ,
And t to feast upon t, I let him see
t to me.
If ear, I brined it so
it nouris ;
If him know
t a tear w ;
erfeit, as was ;
For eyes, , but s.
ever ate I t,
But burnt ters o me ;
And if t favour made ,
I said, quot;If any title be
Conveyd by t dot avail,
to be tietail?quot;
to fly
At w, and when, and how, and where I choose.
No of sports I lie,
And noher falconers use,
I spring a mistress, se, sigh, and weep ;
And t, go talk or sleep.
BEFORE I sig gasp, let me breathe,
Great Love, some legacies ; I h
Mine eyes to Argus, if mine eyes can see ;
If thee ;
My tongue to Fame ; to ambassadors mine ears ;
to ears ;
t taugofore
By making me serve y more,
t I so none, but sucoo much before.
My constancy I to ts give ;
My truto t t do live ;
My ingenuity and openness,
to Jesuits ; to buffoons my pensiveness ;
My silence to any, wh been ;
My money to a Capuchin :
taug me, by appointing me
to love there, where no love received can be,
Only to give to sucy.
My faito Roman Catholics ;
All my good o tics
Of Amsterdam ; my best civility
And courtso an University ;
My modesty I give to soldiers bare ;
My patience let gamesters share :
taug me, by making me
Love y,
Only to give to t count my gifts indignity.
I give my reputation to those
ry to foes ;
to scfulness ;
My sickness to physicians, or excess ;
to nature all t I in r ;
And to my company my :
thou, Love, by making me adore
this love in me before,
taug me to make, as t restore.
to tolls,
I give my pten rolls
Of moral counsels I to Bedlam give ;
My brazen medals unto them which live
In of bread ; to them which pass among
All foreigners, mine Englisongue :
though, Love, by making me love one
portion
For younger lovers, dost my gifts tion.
t Ill undo
too.
ties h
t forth ;
And all your graces no more use shall have,
than a sun-dial in a grave :
taug me by making me
Love bothee,
to invent, and practise to annie all three.
o s harm,
Nor question much,
t subtle h of hair, which crowns my arm ;
tery, t not touch ;
For tis my outward soul,
Viceroy to t, wo heaven being gone,
ill leave to control
And keep tion.
For if ts fall
t
Can tie ts, and make me one of all,
trengt
ter brain,
Can better do t ; except s t I
By this should know my pain,
As prisoners to die.
eer s by it, bury it h me,
For since I am
Loves martyr, it migry,
If into othese relics came.
As twas y
to afford to it all t a soul can do,
So tis some bravery,
t since you would have none of me, I bury some of you.
LIttLE t thou, poor flower,
chd six or seven days,
And seen t every hour
Gave to to t to raise,
And no laugriumphis bough,
Little t thou,
t it I shall
to-morro at all.
Little t t,
t labourest yet to nestle thee,
And t by o get a part
In a forbidden or forbidding tree,
And iffness by long siege to bow,
Little t thou
t to-morroh wake,
Must ake.
But t to be
Subtle to plague t say,
Alas ! if you must go, to me?
ay
You go to friends, w
Various content
to your eyes, ears, and taste, and every part ;
If t need your ?
ell tay know,
stayd and done t,
A naked t, t makes no show,
Is to a a kind of g.
; or having none,
Knohee for one?
Practice may make ;
But take my word, s know a .
Meet me in London, then,
ty days see
Me fres, by being h men,
tayd still hee.
For Gods sake, if you can, be you so too ;
I will give you
to another friend, whom we shall find
As glad to have my body as my mind.
t MONtGOMERY CAStLE
UPON t IS SItUAtE.
UPON this Primrose hill,
il
A s go
to his own primrose, and grow manna so ;
And wy
Make a terrestrial galaxy,
As tars do in the sky ;
I o find a true love ; and I see
t tis not a mere is she,
But must or more or less than woman be.
Yet kno, which flower
I wish ; a six, or four ;
For srue-love less than woman be,
Shen, should she
Be more t above
All t of sex, and to move
My to study to love.
Boters ; since t reside
Falsehood in woman, I could more abide,
S, ture falsified.
Live, primrose, thrive
itrue number five ;
And, woman, w,
iterious number be content ;
ten is t number ; if en
Belongs to eachen
Eacake half us men ;
Or—if t serve turn—since all
Numbers are odd, or even, and they fall
First into five, ake us all.