...five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his Honour, or his Grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face0 Contemplate; what you will, approve. So you will let me love. Alas, alas, who's injured by my...

...five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his Honour,...approve, So you will let me love. Alas, alas, who's injured by my love? What merchant's ships have my sighs drowned? Who says my tears have overflowed...

...five gray hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout ; With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve ; Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his Honour,...; what you will, approve, So you will let me love. (From: Donne, The Canonization) Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove...

...five gray hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, 5 Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his Honour,...Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love. 10 ALAS, alas, who's injured by my love? What merchant's ships have my sighs drown'd? Who says my tears...

...fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate;...approve, So you will let me love. Alas, alas, who's injured by my love? What merchant's ships have my sighs drowned? Who says my tears have overflowed...

...comprised by Donne's first two verses: "For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love / . . . Take you a course, get you a place, / Observe his Honour, or his Grace" (11. 1, 5—6)." The listener's concerns, Donne implies, are the worldly ones; he and his love's erotic...