Let not thy divining heart
Forethink me any ill,

Destiny may take my part
And may thy fears fulfil;
But think that we

Are but laid aside to sleep:
They who one another keep
Alive, ne'er parted be.

FROM 'VERSES TO SIR HENRY WOOTTON.

Be then thine own home, and in thyself dwell;
Inn anywhere; continuance maketh Hell.
And seeing the snail, which everywhere doth roam,
Carrying his own house still, is still at home:
Follow (for he's easy pac'd) this snail,

Be thine own palace, or the world' thy jail. )
But in the world's sea do not like cork sleep
Upon the water's face, nor in the deep
Sink like a lead without a line: but as

Fishes glide, leaving no print where they pass,
Nor making sound, so closely thy course go;
Let men dispute whether thou breathe or no:
Only in this be no Galenist. To make
Court's hot ambitions wholesome, do not take
A dram of country's dulness; do not add
Correctives, but as chymics purge the bad.
But, sir, I advise not you, I rather do
Say o'er those lessons which I learn'd of you:
Whom, free from Germany's schisms, and lightness
Of France, and fair Italie's faithlessness,

Having from these suck'd all they had of worth
And brought home that faith which you carry'd forth,
I throughly love: but if myself I've won

To know my rules, I have, and you have, Donne.

THE WILL

Before I sigh my last gasp, let me breathe,
Great Love, some legacies; here I bequeath
Mine eyes to Argus, if mine eyes can see,
If they be blind, then Love, I give them thee;
My tongue to Fame; to ambassadors mine ears;
To women, or the sea, my tears;

Thou, Love, hast taught me heretofore

By making me serve her who had twenty more.

That I should give to none, but such as had too much beforo

My constancy I to the planets give,

My truth to them who at the court do live;
Mine ingenuity and openness

To Jesuits; to buffoons my pensiveness;
My silence to any, who abroad hath been;
My money to a Capuchin.

Thou, Love, taught'st me, by appointing me
To love there, where no love receiv'd can be,
Only to give to such as have an incapacity.

My faith I give to Roman Catholics;
All my good works unto the schismatics
Of Amsterdam; my best civility
And courtship, to an university;

My modesty I give to shoulders bare;

My patience let gamesters share.

Thou, Love, taught'st me, by making me Love her that holds my love disparity,

Only to give to those that count my gifts indignity.

I give my reputation to those

Which were my friends; my industry to foes;
To schoolmen I bequeath my doubtfulness;

My sickness to physicians, or excess ;

To Nature, all that I in rhyme have writ;

And to my company my wit;

Thou, Love, by making me adore

Her, who begot this love in me before,

'Taught'st me to make, as though I gave, when I did but restore.

To him for whom the passing bell next tolls

I give my physic books; my written rolls
Of moral counsels 1 to Bedlam give;

My brazen medals, unto them which live
In want of bread; to them which pass among
All foreigners, my English tongue,

Thou, Love, by making me love one

Who thinks her friendship a fit portion

For younger lovers, dost my gi.ts thus disproportion.

Therefore I'll give no more; but I'll undo
The world by dying; because love dies too.
Then all your beauties will be no more worth

Than gold in mines, where none doth draw it forth;
And all your graces no more use shall have

Than a sun-dial on a grave.

Thou, Love, taughtest me, by making me

Love her, who doth neglect both me and thee,

To invent and practise this one way to annihilate all three.

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