For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or chide my palsie, or my gout,
My five gray haires, or ruin'd fortune flout,
With wealth your state, your minde with Arts improve,
Take you a course, get you a place,
Observe his honour, or his grace,
Or the Kings reall, or his stamped face
Contemplate, what you will, approve,
So you will let me love.
Alas, alas, who's injur'd by my love?
What merchants ships have my sighs drown'd?
Who saies my teares have overflow'd his ground?
When did my colds a forward spring remove?
When did the heats which my veines fill
Adde one more to the plaguie Bill?
Soldiers finde warres, and Lawyers finde out still
Litigious men, which quarrels move,
Though she and I do love.
Call us what you will, wee are made such by love;
Call her one, mee another flye,
We'are Tapers too, and at our owne cost die,
And wee in us finde the'Eagle and the Dove.
The Phœnix ridle hath more wit
By us, we two being one, are it.
So to one neutrall thing both sexes fit,
Wee dye and rise the same, and prove
Mysterious by this love.
Wee can dye by it, if not live by love,
And if unfit for tombes and hearse
Our legend bee, it will be fit for verse;
And if no peece of Chronicle wee prove,
We'll build in sonnets pretty roomes;
As well a well wrought urne becomes
The greatest ashes, as halfe-acre tombes,
And by these hymnes, all shall approve
Us Canoniz'd for Love:
And thus invoke us; You whom reverend love
Made one anothers hermitage;
You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;
Who did the whole worlds soule contract, and drove
Into the glasses of your eyes
(So made such mirrors, and such spies,
That they did all to you epitomize,)
Countries, Townes, Courts: Beg from above
A patterne of your love!
[The Canonization. 1633-39, A18, Cy, D, H49, Lec,
N, O'F, P, TCC, TCD: Canonization. 1650-69, S:
Canonizatio. S96: no title, B, H40, JC]
[3 five 1633, 1669: true 1635-54
fortune] fortunes 1669]
[4 improve, 1650-69: improve 1633-39]
[7 reall] Roiall Lec]
[14 veines] reynes 1669]
[15 more, 1633-54, Lec: man 1669, A18, B, Cy, D,
H40, H49, JC, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC]
[17 which] whom 1669]
[18 Though] While 1669]
[22 Dove. Ed: dove, 1633-69]
[24 are it. 1633-69: are it; Chambers and Grolier]
[25 So 1650-69: So, 1633-39. See note
fit, D, H49, Lec: fit. 1633-69. See note]
[29 tombes and 1633-54: tomb or 1669]
[30 legend] legends 1633]
[35 these 1633: those 1635-69]
[36 Love:] Love. 1633]
[39 rage; Ed: rage, 1633-69]
[40 contract] extract A18, B, Cy, D, H40, H49,
Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TCC]
[41 eyes 1633-69: eyes; Chambers]
[42-3 brackets, Ed]
[44 Courts: Beg] Courts Beg 1669: courts beg Chambers.
See note
from] frow 1633]
[45 your 1669, A18, B, H40, JC, N, O'F, P,
S96, TC: our 1633-54, D, H49, Lec
love! Ed: love. 1633-69]