And if that favour made him fat, I said, "If any title be Convey'd by this, ah! what doth it avail, To be the fortieth name in an entail?" Thus I reclaim'd my buzzard5 love, to flie And now, as other falconers use, I spring a mistress, swear, write, sigh, and weep; And the game kill'd, or lost, go talk or sleep. LOVE'S DEITY I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost, I must love her that loves not me. Sure, they which made him god meant not so much, But when an even flame two hearts did touch, Only his subject was; it cannot be But Love, till I love her who loves me. every modern god will now extend I should love her who loves not me. Rebel and atheist too, why murmur I, THE PRIMROSE BEING AT MONTGOMERY CASTLE UPON THE HILL ON WHICH IT IS SITUATE UPON this Primrose hill Where, if heaven would distil A shower of rain, each several drop might go As the small stars do in the sky - I walk to find a true love; and I see But must or more or less than woman be. Yet know I not, which flower I wish; a six, or four; For should my true-love less than woman be, My heart to study her, and not to love. She were by art, than nature falsified. Live, primrose, then, and thrive With thy true number five; And, woman, whom this flower doth represent, With this mysterious number be content; Ten is the farthest number; if half ten Belong unto each woman, then Each woman may take half us men ; Or if this will not serve their turn- since all Numbers are odd or even, and they fall First into five, women may take us all. |