SONGS AND SONNETS. THE FLEA. MARK but this flea, and mark in this, Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead; Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two; And this, alas! is more than we would do. O stay, three lives in one flea spare, Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is. This 1. 3. 1669, Me it suck'd first and now it sucks thee, VOL. I. I or 1. 9. 1669, could IO Though parents grudge, and you, we're met, Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Except in that drop which it suck'd from thee? Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me, L 22. 1669, that blood 20 THE GOOD-MORROW. I WONDER, by my troth, what thou and I Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. 10 And now good-morrow to our waking souls, My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die. Love just alike in all, none of these loves can die. 20 SONG. Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee, And swear, No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one, let me know; Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet. 1. 3. 1669, times past 1. 11. 1669, go see ΙΟ 20 Though she were true when you met her, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. WOMAN'S CONSTANCY. Now thou hast loved me one whole day, We are not just those persons which we were? Of Love, and his wrath, any may forswear? Or, as true deaths true marriages untie, So lovers' contracts, images of those, Bind but till sleep, death's image, them unloose? 10 Or, your own end to justify, For having purposed change and falsehood, you Can have no way but falsehood to be true? Vain lunatic, against these 'scapes I could For by to-morrow I may think so too. 1. 27. 1669, ere she come 1. 8. So 1633, 1669; 1635, For as, lines 8-10 being in brackets. |