decline _1650-69:_ Never
declining
from _A10_]
[72-7 _omitted in A10_]
[73 same.
[72-7 _omitted in A10_]
[73 same.
John Donne
Variety.
_Ed: printed for first time without
title in appendix to 1650 and so in 1669 and 1719:_ An Elegie.
_A10:_ Elegie 17^{the}. _JC_]
[1 motion, why _Ed:_ motion why, _1650-69_]
[3 love divide? _MSS. :_ lov'd divide? _1650-69_]
[4 diversifi'd: _Ed:_ diversifi'd _1650-69_]
[6 what else so ever doth seem _1650-69:_ what else is not so
_A10_]
[12 fair-spreading _1650-69_, _JC:_ broad silver _A10_
and farr; _A10_, _JC:_ and cleare; _1650-69_]
[14 it self and _1650-69:_ it self, kills _A10_]
[16 And only worthy to be past compare; _A10_]
[19 aver] ever _1650-69_]
[20 would turn back from _1650-69:_ could not fancy _A10_]
[24 Of other beauties, and in change rejoice? _A10:_ _om.
1650-69_]
[25-36 _omitted in A10_]
[30 brown, _Ed:_ brown _1650-69_]
[32 are _JC:_ were _1650-69_]
[39 crime! _Ed:_ crime? _1650-69_]
[43 Persian _1650-54_, _JC:_ Persians _1669_, _A10_]
[46 title _A10_, _JC:_ little _1650-69_]
[50 liberty's _Ed:_ liberty _1650-69_, _JC_
revers'd, our _A10:_ revers'd and _1650-69_, _JC_]
[51 we're _A10:_ we _1650-69_, _JC_]
[53 whose originall _1650-69_, _JC:_ one whose origin _A10_]
[54 goeing on it fashions _A10:_ growing on it fashions _JC:_
growing on its fashions, _1650-69_]
[55 manners and laws to _1650-69_, _JC:_ Lawes, Manners unto
_A10_]
[57 armes. _A10:_ armes, _1650-69_]
[58 is _1650-69:_ of _A10_]
[61 bruise _1650-69_ wound _A10_
hearts. _Ed:_ hearts; _1650-69_]
[63 seeds of antient _1650-69_, _JC:_ seed of pristine _A10_]
[64 Love] love _1650-69_]
[70 of his _1650-69:_ under's _A10_]
[71 Nor . . .
decline _1650-69:_ Never declining from _A10_]
[72-7 _omitted in A10_]
[73 same. _Ed:_ same: _1650-69:_ flame _JC_]
[75 deny, _Ed:_ deny. _1650-69_]
[79 dispos'd, _Ed:_ dispos'd _1650-69_]
[80 obeying; _Ed:_ obeying, _1650-69_]
[81 securely _1650-69:_ unpartially _A10_]
[82 being _1650-69:_ having _A10_
one, _Ed:_ one _1650-69_]
[83 Wee'l love her ever, _Ed:_ Wee'l leave her ever,
_1650-69_, _JC:_ Would love for ever, _A10_]
ELEGIE XVIII.
_Loves Progress. _
Who ever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick:
Love is a bear-whelp born, if we o're lick
Our love, and force it new strange shapes to take, 5
We erre, and of a lump a monster make.
Were not a Calf a monster that were grown
Face'd like a man, though better then his own?
Perfection is in unitie: preferr
One woman first, and then one thing in her. 10
I, when I value gold, may think upon
The ductilness, the application,
The wholsomness, the ingenuitie,
From rust, from soil, from fire ever free:
But if I love it, 'tis because 'tis made 15
By our new nature (Use) the soul of trade.
All these in women we might think upon
(If women had them) and yet love but one.
Can men more injure women then to say
They love them for that, by which they're not they? 20
Makes virtue woman? must I cool my bloud
Till I both be, and find one wise and good?
May barren Angels love so. But if we
Make love to woman; virtue is not she:
As beauty'is not nor wealth: He that strayes thus 25
From her to hers, is more adulterous,
Then if he took her maid. Search every spheare
And firmament, our _Cupid_ is not there:
He's an infernal god and under ground,
With _Pluto_ dwells, where gold and fire abound: 30
Men to such Gods, their sacrificing Coles
Did not in Altars lay, but pits and holes.
Although we see Celestial bodies move
Above the earth, the earth we Till and love:
So we her ayres contemplate, words and heart, 35
And virtues; but we love the Centrique part.
title in appendix to 1650 and so in 1669 and 1719:_ An Elegie.
_A10:_ Elegie 17^{the}. _JC_]
[1 motion, why _Ed:_ motion why, _1650-69_]
[3 love divide? _MSS. :_ lov'd divide? _1650-69_]
[4 diversifi'd: _Ed:_ diversifi'd _1650-69_]
[6 what else so ever doth seem _1650-69:_ what else is not so
_A10_]
[12 fair-spreading _1650-69_, _JC:_ broad silver _A10_
and farr; _A10_, _JC:_ and cleare; _1650-69_]
[14 it self and _1650-69:_ it self, kills _A10_]
[16 And only worthy to be past compare; _A10_]
[19 aver] ever _1650-69_]
[20 would turn back from _1650-69:_ could not fancy _A10_]
[24 Of other beauties, and in change rejoice? _A10:_ _om.
1650-69_]
[25-36 _omitted in A10_]
[30 brown, _Ed:_ brown _1650-69_]
[32 are _JC:_ were _1650-69_]
[39 crime! _Ed:_ crime? _1650-69_]
[43 Persian _1650-54_, _JC:_ Persians _1669_, _A10_]
[46 title _A10_, _JC:_ little _1650-69_]
[50 liberty's _Ed:_ liberty _1650-69_, _JC_
revers'd, our _A10:_ revers'd and _1650-69_, _JC_]
[51 we're _A10:_ we _1650-69_, _JC_]
[53 whose originall _1650-69_, _JC:_ one whose origin _A10_]
[54 goeing on it fashions _A10:_ growing on it fashions _JC:_
growing on its fashions, _1650-69_]
[55 manners and laws to _1650-69_, _JC:_ Lawes, Manners unto
_A10_]
[57 armes. _A10:_ armes, _1650-69_]
[58 is _1650-69:_ of _A10_]
[61 bruise _1650-69_ wound _A10_
hearts. _Ed:_ hearts; _1650-69_]
[63 seeds of antient _1650-69_, _JC:_ seed of pristine _A10_]
[64 Love] love _1650-69_]
[70 of his _1650-69:_ under's _A10_]
[71 Nor . . .
decline _1650-69:_ Never declining from _A10_]
[72-7 _omitted in A10_]
[73 same. _Ed:_ same: _1650-69:_ flame _JC_]
[75 deny, _Ed:_ deny. _1650-69_]
[79 dispos'd, _Ed:_ dispos'd _1650-69_]
[80 obeying; _Ed:_ obeying, _1650-69_]
[81 securely _1650-69:_ unpartially _A10_]
[82 being _1650-69:_ having _A10_
one, _Ed:_ one _1650-69_]
[83 Wee'l love her ever, _Ed:_ Wee'l leave her ever,
_1650-69_, _JC:_ Would love for ever, _A10_]
ELEGIE XVIII.
_Loves Progress. _
Who ever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick:
Love is a bear-whelp born, if we o're lick
Our love, and force it new strange shapes to take, 5
We erre, and of a lump a monster make.
Were not a Calf a monster that were grown
Face'd like a man, though better then his own?
Perfection is in unitie: preferr
One woman first, and then one thing in her. 10
I, when I value gold, may think upon
The ductilness, the application,
The wholsomness, the ingenuitie,
From rust, from soil, from fire ever free:
But if I love it, 'tis because 'tis made 15
By our new nature (Use) the soul of trade.
All these in women we might think upon
(If women had them) and yet love but one.
Can men more injure women then to say
They love them for that, by which they're not they? 20
Makes virtue woman? must I cool my bloud
Till I both be, and find one wise and good?
May barren Angels love so. But if we
Make love to woman; virtue is not she:
As beauty'is not nor wealth: He that strayes thus 25
From her to hers, is more adulterous,
Then if he took her maid. Search every spheare
And firmament, our _Cupid_ is not there:
He's an infernal god and under ground,
With _Pluto_ dwells, where gold and fire abound: 30
Men to such Gods, their sacrificing Coles
Did not in Altars lay, but pits and holes.
Although we see Celestial bodies move
Above the earth, the earth we Till and love:
So we her ayres contemplate, words and heart, 35
And virtues; but we love the Centrique part.
