No More Learning

as above:_ active _1635-69 and MSS.
as above_]

[11 pure, and] pure an _1669_, _O'F_]

[14 do. ] do _1633_]

[18-19 Starres . . . showne. Gentle love _Ed:_ Starres . . .
showne, Gentle love _1633-69:_

Stars are not by the sunne enlarg'd; but showne
Greater; Loves deeds

_P_. _See note_]

[24 thee. _Ed:_ thee, _1633-69_]

[28 the _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_,
_S96_, _TC:_ this _1635-69_, _Cy_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_]




_Loves exchange. _

_Love_, any devill else but you,
Would for a given Soule give something too.
At Court your fellowes every day,
Give th'art of Riming, Huntsmanship, or Play,
For them which were their owne before; 5
Onely I have nothing which gave more,
But am, alas, by being lowly, lower.

I aske no dispensation now
To falsifie a teare, or sigh, or vow,
I do not sue from thee to draw 10
A _non obstante_ on natures law,
These are prerogatives, they inhere
In thee and thine; none should forsweare
Except that hee _Loves_ minion were.
Give mee thy weaknesse, make mee blinde, 15
Both wayes, as thou and thine, in eies and minde;
Love, let me never know that this
Is love, or, that love childish is;
Let me not know that others know
That she knowes my paines, least that so 20
A tender shame make me mine owne new woe.

If thou give nothing, yet thou'art just,
Because I would not thy first motions trust;
Small townes which stand stiffe, till great shot
Enforce them, by warres law _condition_ not. 25
Such in loves warfare is my case,
I may not article for grace,
Having put Love at last to shew this face.

This face, by which he could command
And change the Idolatrie of any land, 30
This face, which wheresoe'r it comes,
Can call vow'd men from cloisters, dead from tombes,
And melt both Poles at once, and store
Deserts with cities, and make more
Mynes in the earth, then Quarries were before. 35

For this, Love is enrag'd with mee,
Yet kills not. If I must example bee
To future Rebells; If th'unborne
Must learne, by my being cut up, and torne:
Kill, and dissect me, Love; for this 40
Torture against thine owne end is,
Rack't carcasses make ill Anatomies.


[Loves exchange. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ _no
title_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_]

[4 or] and _most MSS. _

Play _D:_ play _1633-69_]

[9 or sigh, or vow, _1633-54:_ a sigh, a vow, _1669_]

[18 is; _Ed:_ is. _1633-69_]

[20 paines] paine _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_,
_O'F_, _P_, _TC_]

[21 _1669 omits_ new]

[28 Love _D:_ love _1633-69_

this] his _1669_]

[36 For this, _Ed:_ For, this _1633-69_

Love _D:_ love _1633-69_]

[37 not. If _Ed:_ not; if _1633-39:_ not: if _1650-69_]




_Confined Love. _

Some man unworthy to be possessor
Of old or new love, himselfe being false or weake,
Thought his paine and shame would be lesser,
If on womankind he might his anger wreake,
And thence a law did grow, 5
One might but one man know;
But are other creatures so?

Are Sunne, Moone, or Starres by law forbidden,
To smile where they list, or lend away their light?
Are birds divorc'd, or are they chidden 10
If they leave their mate, or lie abroad a night?
Beasts doe no joyntures lose
Though they new lovers choose,
But we are made worse then those.

Who e'r rigg'd faire ship to lie in harbors, 15
And not to seeke new lands, or not to deale withall?