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[A nocturnal _&c. _ _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[7 beds-feet,] beds-feet _1633-69_]

[12 every _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_ (_altered to_ a very),
_TC:_ a very _1635-69_]

[16 emptinesse: _1719:_ emptinesse; _Chambers and Grolier:_
emptinesse _1633-54:_ emptinesse, _1669_. _See note_]

[20 have; _Ed:_ have, _1633-69_. ]

[31 know;] know, _1633_]

[32 beast,] beast; _Grolier_]

[34 love; All, all _Ed:_ love, all, all _1633-69_

invest; _Ed:_ invest, _1633:_ invest _1635-69_]

[37 renew. _1633:_ renew, _1635-69_]

[41 all; _Ed:_ all, _1633-69 and Chambers, who places a full
stop after_ festivall]

[44 Eve, _1650-69:_ eve, _1633-39_]




_Witchcraft by a picture. _

I fixe mine eye on thine, and there
Pitty my picture burning in thine eye,
My picture drown'd in a transparent teare,
When I looke lower I espie;
Hadst thou the wicked skill 5
By pictures made and mard, to kill,
How many wayes mightst thou performe thy will?

But now I have drunke thy sweet salt teares,
And though thou poure more I'll depart;
My picture vanish'd, vanish feares, 10
That I can be endamag'd by that art;
Though thou retaine of mee
One picture more, yet that will bee,
Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free.


[Witchcraft _&c. _ _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ The
Picture. _or_ Picture. _Cy_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96:_ A Songe.
_B_]

[4 espie; _Ed:_ espie, _1633-69_]

[6 to kill, _Ed:_ to kill? _1633-39:_ to kill; _1650-69_]

[9 And though] Although _1669_ And though thou therefore poure
more will depart; _B_, _H40_]

[10 vanish'd, vanish feares, _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _H40_,
_JC_, _N_, _P_, _S96_, _TC:_ vanished, vanish all feares
_1635-54_, _O'F:_ vanish, vanish fears, _1669_]

[11 that] thy _JC_, _O'F_, _S96_]

[14 all] thy _B_, _H40_, _S96_]




_The Baite. _

Come live with mee, and bee my love,
And wee will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and christall brookes,
With silken lines, and silver hookes.

There will the river whispering runne 5
Warm'd by thy eyes, more then the Sunne.
And there the'inamor'd fish will stay,
Begging themselves they may betray.

When thou wilt swimme in that live bath,
Each fish, which every channell hath, 10
Will amorously to thee swimme,
Gladder to catch thee, then thou him.

If thou, to be so seene, beest loath,
By Sunne, or Moone, thou darknest both,
And if my selfe have leave to see, 15
I need not their light, having thee.

Let others freeze with angling reeds,
And cut their legges, with shells and weeds,
Or treacherously poore fish beset,
With strangling snare, or windowie net: 20

Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest
The bedded fish in banks out-wrest,
Or curious traitors, sleavesilke flies
Bewitch poore fishes wandring eyes.

For thee, thou needst no such deceit, 25
For thou thy selfe art thine owne bait;
That fish, that is not catch'd thereby,
Alas, is wiser farre then I.


[The Baite. _1635-69:_ _no title_, _1633:_ Song. _or no
title_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _Walton's_
Compleate Angler: _Fourth Day:_ _Chap. XII. :_ Songs that were
made _&c. _ (_vid. sup. p. _ 18) _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[2 some new] all the _P_]

[3 brookes, _Ed:_ brookes: _1633-69_]

[5 whispering _1633:_ whispring _1635-69_]

[6 thy] thine _1669_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[7 inamor'd] enamelled _Walton_

stay] play _1669_]

[11 to] unto _JC_, _O'F_, _P:_ to see _N:_ Most amoroussly to
thee will swim _Walton_]

[15 my selfe] mine eyes _Walton:_ my heart _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[18 with] which _1633_]

[20 snare,] snares, _Walton_

windowie] winding _1669_. _See note_]

[23 Or _1633-69:_ Let _Walton_

sleavesilke _1635:_ sleave silke _1639-69 and Walton:_
sleavesicke _1633_]

[24 To witch poor wandring fishes eyes. _Walton_]

[25 thou needst] there needs _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _S96_]

[26 bait; _Ed:_ bait, _1633-69_]

[27 catch'd _1633-69:_ catch't _Walton:_ caught _P_]

[28 Is wiser far, alas _Walton_]




_The Apparition.