hither with crystal phials; lovers; e;
and take my tears; which are loves wine;
and try your mistress tears at home;
for all are false; that taste not just like mine。
alas ! hearts do not in eyes shine;
nor can you more judge womens thoughts by tears;
than by her shadow what she wears。
o perverse sex; where none is true but she;
whos therefore true; because her truth kills me。
valediction to his book。
ill tell thee now (dear love) what thou shalt do
to anger destiny; as she doth us ;
how i shall stay; though she eloign me thus;
and how posterity shall know it too ;
how thine may out…endure
sibyls glory; and obscure
her who from pindar could allure;
and her; through whose help lucan is not lame;
and her; whose book (they say) homer did find; and name。
study our manuscripts; those myriads
of letters; which have past twixt thee and me ;
thence write our annals; and in them will be
to all whom loves subliming fire invades;
rule and example found ;
there the faith of any ground
no schismatic will dare to wound;
that sees; how love this grace to us affords;
to make; to keep; to use; to be these his records。
this book; as long…lived as the elements;
or as the worlds form; this all…gravèd tome
in cypher writ; or new made idiom ;
we for loves clergy only are instruments ;
when this book is made thus;
should again the ravenous
vandals and goths invade us;
learning were safe ; in this our universe;
schools might learn sciences; spheres music; angels verse。
here loves divines—since all divinity
is love or wonder—may find all they seek;
whether abstract spiritual love they like;
their souls exhaled with what they do not see ;
or; loth so to amuse
faiths infirmity; they choose
something which they may see and use ;
for; though mind be the heaven; where love doth sit;
beauty a convenient type may be to figure it。
here more than in their books may lawyers find;
both by what titles mistresses are ours;
and how prerogative these states devours;
transferrd from love himself; to womankind ;
who; though from heart and eyes;
they exact great subsidies;
forsake him who on them relies ;
and for the cause; honour; or conscience give ;
chimeras vain as they or their prerogative。
here statesmen—or of them; they which can read—
may of their occupation find the grounds ;
love; and their art; alike it deadly wounds;
if to consider what tis; one proceed。
in both they do excel
who the present govern well;
whose weakness none doth; or dares tell ;
in this thy book; such will there something see;
as in the bible some can find out alchemy。
thus vent thy thoughts ; abroad ill study thee;
as he removes far off; that great heights takes ;
how great love is; presence best trial makes;
but absence tries how long this love will be ;
to take a latitude
sun; or stars; are fitliest viewd
at their brightest; but to conclude
of longitudes; what other way have we;
but to mark when and where the dark eclipses be?
munity。
good we must love; and must hate ill;
for ill is ill; and good good still ;
but there are things indifferent;
which wee may neither hate; nor love;
but one; and then another prove;
as we shall find our fancy bent。
if then at first wise nature had
made women either good or bad;
then some wee might hate; and some choose ;
but since she did them so create;
that we may neither love; nor hate;
only this rests; all all may use。
if they were good it would be seen ;
good is as visible as green;
and to all eyes itself betrays。
if they were bad; they could not last ;
bad doth itself; and others waste ;
so they deserve nor blame; nor praise。
but they are ours as fruits are ours ;
he that but tastes; he that devours;
and he that leaves all; doth as well ;
changed loves are but changed sorts of meat ;
and when he hath the kernel eat;
who doth not fling away the shell?
loves growth。
i scarce believe my love to be so pure
as i had thought it was;
because it doth endure
vicissitude; and season; as the grass ;
methinks i lied all winter; when i swore
my love was infinite; if spring make it more。
but if this medicine; love; which cures all sorrow
with more; not only be no quintessence;
but mixd of all stuffs; vexing soul; or sense;
and of the sun his active vigour borrow;
love抯 not so pure; and abstract as they use
to say; which have no mistress but their muse ;
but as all else; being elemented too;
love sometimes would contemplate; sometimes do。
and yet no greater; but more eminent;
love by the spring is grown ;
as in the firmament
stars by the sun are not enlarged; but shown;
gentle love deeds; as blossoms on a bough;
from loves awakened root do bud out now。
if; as in water stirrd more circles be
produced by one; love such additions take;
those like so many spheres but one heaven make;
for they are all concentric unto thee ;
and though each spring do add to love new heat;
as princes do in times of action get
new taxes; and remit them not in peace;
no winter shall abate this spring抯 increase。
loves exchange。
love; any devil else but you
would for a given soul give something too。
at court your fellows every day
give th art of rhyming; huntsmanship; or play;
for them which were their own before ;
only i have nothing; which gave more;
but am; alas ! by being lowly; lower。
i ask no dispensation now;
to falsify a tear; or sigh; or vow ;
i do not sue from thee to draw
a non obstante on natures law ;
these are prerogatives; they inhere
in thee and thine ; none should forswear
except that he loves minion were。
give me thy weakness; make me blind;
both ways; as thou and thine; in eyes and mind ;
love; let me never know that this
is love; or; that love childish is ;
let me not know that others know
that she knows my paines; lest th
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