These burning fits but meteors be, Whose matter in thee is soon spent ; Yet 'twas of my mind, seizing thee, For I had rather owner be Of thee one hour, than all else ever. 28 AIR AND ANGELS. TWICE or thrice had I loved thee, But since my soul, whose child love is, Love must not be, but take a body too; And therefore what thou wert, and who, I bid love ask, and now That it assume thy body, I allow, 1. 22. 1669, soon is 1. 24. 1669, An 1. 27. 1669, Yet, ΤΟ 1 14. So 1669; 1633, lip, eye Whilst thus to ballast love I thought, Thy every hair for love to work upon Is much too much; some fitter must be sought; 20 Of air, not pure as it, yet pure doth wear, Just such disparity As is 'twixt air's and angels' purity, 'Twixt women's love, and men's, will ever be. BREAK OF DAY. STAY, O sweet, and do not rise; The light that shines comes from thine eyes; Because that you and I must part. 1. 19. So 1669; 1633, Every thy [ANOTHER OF THE SAME.] 'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O, wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because 'twas night? Love, which in spite of darkness brought us hither, Should in despite of light keep us together. Light hath no tongue, but is all eye; If it could speak as well as spy, This were the worst that it could say, That being well I fain would stay, And that I loved my heart and honour so, That I would not from him, that had them, go. Must business thee from hence remove? O! that's the worst disease of love, The poor, the foul, the false, love can Admit, but not the busied man. He which hath business, and makes love, doth do Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo. 1. 6. So 1633, 1669; 1635, spite 1. 12. 1669, from her 1. 18. So 1633, 1669; 1635, should woo ΙΟ THE ANNIVERSARY. ALL kings, and all their favourites, When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. Two graves must hide thine and my corse; ΙΟ Oft fed with true oaths, and with sweet salt tears; When bodies to their graves, souls from their graves remove. And then we shall be throughly blest; But now no more than all the rest. 1. 3. So 1633, 1669; 1635, as these pass; 1650, times 20 Here upon earth we're kings, and none but we Let us love nobly, and live, and add again To write threescore; this is the second of our reign. 30 A VALEDICTION OF MY NAME, IN THE WINDOW. I. My name engraved herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass, II. 'Tis much that glass should be As all-confessing, and through-shine as I ; 1. 23. 1669 omits none 1. 24. 1669, None are ΙΟ |