...other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such...makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun." A Valediction forbidding Mourning. worthy in the student, but it is a proof of extraordinary felicity,...

...other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam. It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such...firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.11 A Valediction forbidding Monrnin£. worthy in the student, but it is a proof of extraordinary...

...other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam,3 It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such...other foot, obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circles just,4 And makes me end where I begun. Valediction. 8. PHINEAS and GILES FLETCHER (the former...

...other do. And though it in the centre sit. Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th 1 other foot, obliquely run, Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun." A...

...temporary separation to that of a pair of compasses: " Such wilt thou be to me, who must. Like the other foot obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun." If he would persuade her to marriage he calls her attention to a flea — " Me it sucked first and...

...other doe. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth rome, It leanes, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to mee, who must Like th'other foot, obliquely runne; Thy firmnes drawes my circle just, And makes me...

...th'other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such...makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun. (Donne, Complete English Poems, pp. 84-5) What is striking is that the celebrated merger is not a union...

...th'other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, 30 It leans, and hearkens after it. And grows erect, as that comes home. Such...makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun. THE ECSTASY Where, like a pillow on a bed, A pregnant bank swelled up, to rest The violet's reclining...

...sacred. And though it in the centre sit, 30 Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such...to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; 35 Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun. The Funeral Whoever comes to...

...Mikrokosmographia, 274-76. Harvey's writings about women never betray this kind of antifeminist rhetoric. 38. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot,...just, And makes me end where I begun ( John Donne, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" ) 39. Compare Don Quixote's "Balsamum of Fierebras" in Cervantes,...