s: Such is the magick of that lawfull shell


s: That where it doth but talke, it doth compell:


s: For no Apelles 'till this time e're drew


s: and a friend of poets, and as a warm advocate of Episcopacy.


s: The world shall now no longer mourne nor vex


s: For th' obliquity of a cross-grain'd sex;


s: Nor beauty swell above her bankes, (and made


s: So fiercely, that 'tis question'd in our bookes,


s: Whether kils most the Amazon's sword or lookes.


s: Women and men joyntly to share the stakes,


s: And lets us know, when women scorne, it is


s: Mens hot love makes the antiparisthesis;


s: The wilder nymphs, lov's power could not comand,


s: Are by thy almighty numbers brought to hand,


s: 'Tis not by force of armes this feat is done,


s: For that would puzzle even the Knight o' th' Sun;<8.1>


s: But 'tis by pow'r of art, and such a way


s: As Orpheus us'd, when he made fiends obay.


s: old writers.  Sir Thomas Overbury, in his CHARACTERS, represents


s: wherein is shewed the worthinesse of the Knight of the Sunne, &c.


s: Ovr times are much degenerate from those,


s: Which your sweet Muse, which your fair fortune chose;


s: And as complexions alter with the climes,


s: Our wits have drawne th' infection of our times.


s: Who best could prayse, had then the greatest prayse;


s: 'Twas more esteemd to give then wear the bayes.


s: To honour not her selfe, but worthy men.


s: These vertues now are banisht out of towne,


s: Our Civill Wars have lost the civicke crowne.


s: He highest builds, who with most art destroys,


s: And against others fame his owne employs.


s: On the faire blossome of each growing wit.


s: The ayre's already tainted with the swarms


s: Of insects, which against you rise in arms.


s: Till, when in vaine they have thee all perus'd,


s: You shall for being faultlesse be accus'd.


s: You wrong'd in her the Houses priviledge;


s: Because you write when going to the Warre;


s: And one the book prohibits, because Kent


s: Their first Petition by the Authour sent.


s: But when the beauteous ladies came to know,


s: That their deare Lovelace was endanger'd so:


s: Lovelace, that thaw'd the most congealed brest,


s: He who lov'd best, and them defended best,


s: Whose hand so rudely grasps the steely brand,


s: Whose hand so gently melts the ladies hand,


s: Sally'd, and would in his defence contest.


s: And one, the loveliest that was yet e're seen,


s: Thinking that I too of the rout had been,


s: (She knew what pain 't would be to lose that sight).


s: In your defence, or in his cause, would dy.


s: Above their envy or mine aid doth clime.


s: Him valianst men and fairest nymphs approve,


s: His booke in them finds judgement, with you, love.


s: What vast soule moves thee, or what hero's spirit


s: (Kept in'ts traduction pure) dost thou inherit,


s: That, not contented with one single fame,


s: Both th' Delphick wreath and civic coronet?


s: Thou couldst in season suffer, act and dare


s: But we must also witnesse, with what height


s: And what Ionick sweetnesse thou canst write,


s: Stubborn enough t' enrage the god of war


s: Into a noble love, which may expire<9.1>


s: Which, having gained his due station, may


s: Fix there, and everlasting flames display.


s: This is the braver path: time soone can smother


s: The dear-bought spoils and tropheis of the other.


s: Whose triumphs were as soone forgot as seen?


s: To rescue <thee> from night, and make <thee> known.


s: Such art thou to thy selfe.  While others dream


s: Strong flatt'ries on a fain'd or borrow'd theam,


s: Thou shalt remaine in thine owne lustre bright,


s: And adde unto 't LUCASTA'S chaster light.


s: For none so fit to sing great things as he,


s: Thus had Achilles his owne gests design'd,


s: of a volume of poems which was printed in the same year.


s: In the LUCASTA are some complimentary lines by Lovelace


s: on Hall's translation of the commentary of Hierocles on


s: Poets and painters have some near relation,


s: The one paints shadowed persons (in pure kind),


s: The other paints the pictures of the mind


s: In purer verse.  And as rare Zeuxes fame


s: Shin'd, till Apelles art eclips'd the same


s: In Zeuxeses (with pensill far more fine),


s: So have our modern poets late done well,


s: Till thine appear'd (which scarce have paralel).


s: They like to Zeuxes grapes beguile the sense,


s: Like the rare banquet of Apelles, drawn,


s: And covered over with most curious lawn.


s: Thus if thy careles draughts are cal'd the best,


s: What would thy lines have beene, had'st thou profest


s: Which adds such honour unto thy chivalry?


s: Doubtles thy verse had all as far transcended


s: As Sydneyes Prose, who Poets once defended.


s: In thy brave language, judgement, wit, and art,


s: Where thy seraphique Sydneyan fire is raised high


s: Martiall concise and witty, quaint and pure,


s: Iuvenall grave and learned, though obscure.


s: But all these rare ones which I heere reherse,


s: Do live againe in Thee, and in thy Verse:


s: Although not in the language of their time,


s: Wel may each Grace and Muse then crown thy praise


s: With Mars his banner and Minerva's bayes.


s: and other poetical works. Singer does not give these lines.


s: In the WHIRLIGIG there is a curious picture of a young gallant


s: of the time of Charles I., to which Lovelace might have sat,


s: had he been old enough at the time.  But Lenton had no want


s: Chast as Creation meant us, and more bright


s: Then the first day in 's uneclipsed light,


s: Lines to her name as undefil'd and cleere;


s: Such as the first indeed more happy dayes


s: (When vertue, wit, and learning wore the bayes


s: Now vice assumes) would to her memory give:


s: A Vestall flame that should for ever live,


s: Plac't in a christal temple, rear'd to be


s: And on the porch thy name insculpt, my friend,


s: Whose love, like to the flame, can know no end.


s: The marble step that to the alter brings


s: The hallowed priests with their clean offerings,


s: Shall hold their names that humbly crave to be


s: Votaries to th' shrine, and grateful friends to thee.


s: So shal we live (although our offrings prove


s: Meane to the world) for ever by thy love.


s: Borne like my rough selfe in the warres;


s: lines, and some to be found in the posthumous volume, of which


s: he was the editor, this gentleman contributed the following


s: commendatory poem to AYRES AND DIALOGUES [by Thomas Stanley Esq.]


s: to the completeness of the present edition:--


s: Snatches her to twist his conquering brows.


s: Ecce tibi, heroi claris natalibus orto;<13.2>


s: Cujus adhuc memorat rediviva Batavia patrem,


s: Qui tua Grollaferox, laceratus vulnere multo,


s: Et cum saeva tuas fudisset Iberia turmas,


s: Haec sint magna: tamen major majoribus hic est,


s: Sermonem patrium callentem et murmura Celtae,


s: Quicquid Roma vetus, vel quicquid Graecia jactat,


s: Gnaviter Hesperios compressit Marte cachinnos,


s: Et scribenda gerens vivaci marmore digna,


s: Cui gladium Bellona dedit, calamumque Minerva,


s: Cujus si faciem spectes vultusque decorem,


s: present instance meaning nothing more than Colonel.


s: original is very corrupt.  I suppose that the compositor was


s: Carmina, carminibus non meliora tuis.<14.1>


s: will be found in Bliss's edition of Wood's ATHENAE.  He published


s: Pity from blustring winde or swallowing wave.


s: Unseene, unknowne, and greet as angels greet


s: In Heav'n, their earthy bodies left behind.


s: A rosie tincture o'er the Phoenix nest."


s: OTIA SACRA, by Mildmay, Earl of Westmoreland, 1648, p. 37.


s: Ah brade<18.2> no more that shining haire!


s: Heere wee'll strippe and coole our fire,


s: In creame below, in milk-baths<18.4> higher:


s: Peele had probably in his mind the custom of his own time and


s: country when he wrote the following passage:--


s: "Bright Bethsabe shall wash in David's bower,


s: In water mix'd with purest almond flower,


s: And bathe her beauty in the milk of kids."


s: And please me (faire one) with that pleasure


s: The blackest, when y'are ne're the worse.


s: a gentleman of Charles the First's chapel, and chamber-musician


s: to his majesty.  For an account of his works,


s: see Burney's HISTORY OF MUSIC, vol. iii. pp. 399-400,


s: or Hawkins' HISTORY OF MUSIC, iii. 57, where a portrait


s: of Wilson, taken from the original painting, will be found.


s: Wood, author of the FASTI and ATHENAE, says that he was


s: in his time, "the best at the lute in all England."  Herrick,


s: in his HESPERIDES, 1648, has these lines in reference to


s: "Then if thy voice commingle with the string,


s: I hear in thee the rare Laniere to sing,


s: I'le scatter all their vowes i' th' ayr,


s: From hand to breast, from breast to lip,


s: But then at night, bright with her gemmes,


s: And in the sleave<20.5>-silke of her haire


s: Gets her goodwill, and with his purchase flies."


s: and by Euridice, the lady whom he celebrates under the name


s: of Lucasta.  Grainger mentions (BIOG. HIST. ii. 74) a portrait


s: of Lovelace by Gaywood, in which he is represented as Orpheus.


s: I have not seen it.  The old poets were rather fond of likening


s: themselves to this legendary personage, or of designating


s: "We that are ORPHEUS' sons, and can inherit


s: taking his part in musical entertainments.


s: The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone;


s: The mind, the music breathing from her face."


s: It is a swounding for a while from blisse,


s: 'Till kind HOW DOE YOU call's us from the fit.


s: If then the spirits only stray, let mine


s: Fly to thy bosome, and my soule to thine:


s: Our right for one, where we can better live.


s: Lu.        But ah, this ling'ring, murdring farewel!


s: Death quickly wounds, and wounding cures the ill.


s: Alex.      It is the glory of a valiant lover,


s: Still to be dying, still for to recover.


s: Cho.       Soldiers suspected of their courage goe,


s: That ensignes and their breasts untorne show:


s: Love nee're his standard, when his hoste he sets,


s: Alex.      But part we, when thy figure I retaine


s: Still in my heart, still strongly in mine eye?


s: Lu.        Shadowes no longer than the sun remaine,


s: But <whee> his beams, that made 'em, fly, they fly.


s: Cho.       Vaine dreames of love! that only so much blisse


s: Alex.      No, whilst light raigns, LUCASTA still rules here,


s: And all the night shines wholy in this sphere.


s: Lu.        I know no morne but my ALEXIS ray,


s: To my dark thoughts the breaking of the day.


s: Alex.      So in each other if the pitying sun


s: Thus keep us fixt, nere may his course be run!


s: Lu.        And oh! if night us undivided make;


s: Let us sleepe still, and sleeping never wake!


s: The sessions of a looke, a kisse, or smile,


s: And leave behinde an angry grieving blush;


s: But time nor fate can part us joyned thus.


s: musician, was afterwards musician at one of the playhouses;


s: from thence removed to be a cornet in the King's Chapel.


s: After that he became one in Charles the Second's band of violins,


s: TO THE THEORBO AND BASS VIOL, fol. Lond., 1659."--Hawkins.


s: For all the while you lasted warme and pure,


s: But once turn'd faithlesse to thy selfe and old,


s: They then with thee incessantly<23.1> grew cold.


s: By th' ebon bowes<23.2> that guard thine eyes,


s: Of both those stars, which of<23.3> their spheres bereft,


s: Then changed thus, no more I'm bound to you,


s: Then swearing to a saint that proves untrue.


s: At this she smiled, when straight the sun


s: compositions by Lovelace and other poets, in a copy of Crashaw's


s: POEMS, 1648, 12mo, a portion of which having been formed of the


s: printer's proof-sheets, some of the pages are printed only on one


s: little poems, that by "Mr. Thomas Fuller" we may understand the


s: Of state, that yet some rust doth feele.


s: in Peterhouse, to which he was committed a prisoner on his return


s: fortunes of Charles I. were at their lowest ebb, and it may be


s: assigned without much risk of error to the end of 1648.


s: Old MACHAVIEL and half a thousand other;


s: Which, when subscrib'd, writes LEGION, names on truss,


s: Eastrich!<26.2> thou featherd foole, and easie prey,


s: That larger sailes to thy broad vessell needst;


s: Snakes through thy guttur-neck hisse all the day,


s: Then on thy iron messe at supper feedst.<26.3>


s: Hast thou straight made! heere<26.4> from a winged stone


s: Now doe thy plumes for hiew and luster vie


s: With th' arch of heav'n that triumphs or'e past wet,


s: With saphyres, amethists and opalls set.


s: Sometime they wing her side,<26.5> <thee> strive to drown


s: The day's eyes piercing beames, whose am'rous heat


s: Sollicites still, 'till with this shield of downe


s: From her brave face his glowing fires are beat.


s: But whilst a plumy curtaine she doth draw,


s: A chrystall mirror sparkles in thy breast,


s: In which her fresh aspect when as she saw,


s: And then her foe<26.6> retired to the west.


s: Deare engine, that oth' sun got'st me the day,


s: 'Spite of his hot assaults mad'st him retreat!


s: No wind (said she) dare with thee henceforth play


s: But mine own breath to coole the tyrants heat.


s: So said, her sad swaine over-heard and cried:


s: Yee Gods! for faith unstaind this a reward!


s: Feathers and glasse t'outweigh my vertue tryed!


s: Ah! show their empty strength! the gods accord.


s: Now fall'n the brittle favourite lyes and burst!


s: Amas'd LUCASTA weepes, repents and flies


s: If hence she dresse her selfe but in his eyes.


s: now so common, was, as we here are told, familiar to the ladies


s: of Lovelace's time.  Mr. Fairholt, in his COSTUME IN ENGLAND,


s: different periods to this article of use and ornament; but the


s: present passage in LUCASTA appears to have escaped his notice.


s: has ESTRIDGE.  The fan here described was composed of


s: ostrich-feathers set with precious stones.


s: her fan for immediate use, wore it suspended at her side or


s: 'Till, turn'd into a gemme, y'are plac'd


s: Nor can your selves quench your owne fire.


s: Through all the Heavens you were brought


s: doing so would be very slight, that LUCASTA was a native of Kent


s: or of one of the adjoining shires; but against this supposition


s: But, viewing her, straight wak'd a Star,


s: Then dart on me (CHAST LIGHT)<28.2> one ray,


s: Sir William Barnes, of Woolwich, whose only daughter and heir,


s: Oh, stay that covetous hand; first turn all eye,


s: All depth and minde; then mystically spye


s: Her soul's faire picture, her faire soul's, in all


s: That you will sweare her body by this law


s: Is but its shadow, as this, its;--now draw.


s: It is still done in some old houses.  In WESTWARD HOE, 1607,


s: act ii. scene 3, there is an allusion to this practice:--


s: "SIR GOSLING.  So draw those curtains, and let's see the


s: pictures under 'em."--Webster's WORKS, ed. Hazlitt, i. 133.


s: Lucasta sigh't;<30.1> when she did close


s: Straight from her eyes she lightning hurl'd,


s: They fann'd this heat, and thaw'd that cold,


s: Thus earth, from flames and ice repreev'd,


s: She's that fixt heav'n, which never moves.


s: Who carves or stampes his armes or face,


s: Which keepes possession, though you passe.


s: This she acts calmer, like Heav'ns brand,


s: The stedfast lightning, slow loves dart,


s: Lucasta weepes, lest I look back and tread


s: Conceive how joy, after this short divorce,


s: And call the helping winds to vent your thought.


s: Amyn.    She's now the center of these armes e're blest,


s: Alex.    Ah subtile swaine! doth not my flame rise high


s: And can I breath without her air?--Amyn.


s: Wafte thy selfe over, and lest storms from far


s: Alex.    But as we cut the rugged deepe, I feare


s: Amyn.    Oh no, the prince of waters' fires are done;


s: But all his treasure he shall ope' that day:


s: Alex.    We flye, Amyntor, not amaz'd how sent


s: From the dire monument of thy black roome,


s: Wher now that vestal flame thou dost intombe,


s: As in the inmost cell of all earths wombe.


s: Of heavenly truth, passe this Cimmerian way,


s: Whilst all the standards of your beames display.


s: Arise and climbe our whitest, highest hill;


s: There your sad thoughts with joy and wonder fill,


s: And see seas calme<32.1> as earth, earth as your will.


s: Behold! how lightning like a taper flyes,


s: And guilds your chari't, but ashamed dyes,


s: Seeing it selfe out-gloried by your eyes.


s: Threatning and boystrous tempests gently bow,


s: And to your steps part in soft paths, when now


s: There no where hangs a cloud, but on your brow.


s: No showrs but 'twixt your lids, nor gelid snow,


s: But what your whiter, chaster brest doth ow,<32.2>


s: Whilst winds in chains colder for<32.3> sorrow blow.


s: Artillery hath loaden ev'ry dish with meate,


s: And drums at ev'ry health alarmes beate.


s: Trees borrow tongues, waters in accents fall,


s: The aire doth sing, and fire is<32.4> musicall.


s: Awake from the dead vault in which you dwell,


s: All's loyall here, except your thoughts rebell


s: Which, so let loose, often their gen'rall quell.


s: No storms, heats, colds, no soules contentious,


s: Nor civill war is found; I meane, to us.


s: Lovers and angels, though in heav'n they show,


s: And see the woes and discords here below,


s: What they not feele, must not be said to know.


s: Her payle's all this, in which wet glasse


s: She both doth cleanse and view her face.


s: Proclaim her sweet from th' wombe as morne.


s: Those colour'd things were made, not borne.


s: Which, fixt within their narrow straits,


s: Flowerd with blush, with verdure stalkt;


s: Th' officious wind her loose hayre curles,


s: And stands 'mongst them, as they 'mong weeds;


s: Sh' inthrones the Poore Girle<33.3> in her breast:


s: The July-flow'r<33.4> that hereto thriv'd,


s: Then 'stead of teares straight sheds her leaves.


s: Her (sweet to th' eye but smelling sower),


s: Thanks those that live, which else would dye:


s: By crowning her are crown and crown'd.<33.5>


s: Who, by her toucht, now prizeth her<33.8> life,


s: With the moist chrystall and the frye<33.9>


s: With burnisht-silver mal'd, whose oares<33.10>


s: Strait Ash, tall Firre, and wanton Vine;


s: Grape that mirth fain would have taught her,


s: And nuts, which squirrells cracking brought her;


s: To courts of fools, where<33.12> as your playes


s: And th' world may seem as blind as thee;


s: Who sleepes in chaines that night, his last,


s: And from his trance, not dream bid live,


s: Who speaks, his friend or his false hope.


s: And starts her thus:----Rage, rapine, force!


s: Bring all your snakes, here let them hisse;


s: Blast all their roots, and as you creepe,


s: Posses<33.14> her round; she's slipt mean whiles


s: The shepheard sigh't,<33.15> my woes I crave


s: Or fiend, breath anthemes, heare my plaint,


s: And straight to heaven with winged feare,<33.17>


s: They cloth'd with light, whilst ill you grieve


s: What heav'n could give, has all its blisse.


s: Will strive to catch thee with his layes;


s: Are souls on earth then heav'n<33.18> more kind?


s: 'Gainst his own breast, which she puts by


s: And now her smiles have heal'd his wound.


s: Whilst each cheek doth the other's steep,


s: Who whilst they for the same things fight,


s: Where she 'mongst savage beasts doth find


s: Her self more safe then humane<33.19> kind.


s: That kenne not guile [n]or courtship ment.


s: Which both grew, drest and serv'd up there:


s: That done, she feasts her smell with po'ses


s: Knows and adores this, and is wilde,<33.21>


s: Untill with her he live thus milde.<33.22>


s: Breathing and constant still ev'n there;


s: singularly corrupt.  I have found it necessary to amend it


s: hair with a silken fillet, making of them a kind of chaplet


s: to be, with the exception of Lovelace, almost the only writer who


s: (Instead of fifty, write her down fifteen)


s: And ev'ry morn her closet-face unlocks."


s: Worcester's Dict. IBID, &c.  The context here requires TO TURN


s: that my woes may be smothered in me, and I may be smothered


s: Thinking to breath your soule too welle,


s: Thou snowy farme with thy five tenements!<34.1>


s: But she a-gathering flowr's and hearts is gone,


s: The slender turnings of thy narrow roome,


s: But must ejected be by his owne dombe?<34.2>


s: Then give me leave to leave my rent with thee:


s: Yet servants, knowing minikin<34.3> nor base,


s: Are still allow'd to fiddle with the case.


s: only brought into play by accomplished musicians.  In the address


s: "Fair Wench!  I cannot court thy sprightly eyes


s: With a base-viol plac'd betwixt my thighs,


s: In Middleton's FAMILIE OF LOVE, 1608 (Works by Dyce, ii. 127)


s: "GUDGEON.    Ay, and to all that forswear marriage, and can be


s: GERARDINE.  Of which consort you two are grounds; one touches


s: the bass, and the other tickles the minikin."


s: That well did wash downe pasties-Mary;<35.3>


s: With knuckles far as any deepe in;<35.5>


s: Of wine, and loyne right-worshipfull;<35.6>


s: Thankes freest, freshest, faire Ellinda.


s: Or at the least thankes for your feigning;


s: For if your mercy doore were lockt-well,


s: Not one rhime to you from dam-Rotter.<35.7>


s: Whom well I deeme (e're few months elder)


s: Whose health I'd quaffe in golden chalice;


s: But since that Fate hath made me neuter,


s: The doughty acts of George the yong-son?


s: Had slaine the snake, had he not mist her:


s: Fill with his deeds twelve reames of paper,


s: With his fleet neigher shall keep no-pace.


s: But now to close all I must switch-hard,


s: of drinking beer and wine out of very high glasses, with


s: divisions marked on them.  A yard of ale is even now a well


s: understood term: nor is the custom itself out of date, since


s: in some parts of the country one is asked to take, not a glass,


s: but A YARD.  The ell was of course, strictly speaking, a larger


s: measure than a yard; but it was often employed as a mere synonyme


s: quoted to illustrate the meaning of the word, which is defined


s: rather vaguely to be A CASK.  Obviously the word signifies


s: certain "glutton-feasts," which used formerly to be celebrated


s: periodically in honour of the Virgin; perhaps the pasties used on


s: this country in former times; innumerable illustrations might be


s: furnished of the high esteem in which this description of viand


s: (this volume is supposed to have been written by Giles Brydges,


s: Lord Chandos), describes an affected Englishman who has been


s: travelling on the Continent, as "sweating at the sight of a pasty


s: "The full-cram'd dishes made the table crack,


s: Gammons of bacon, brawn, and what was chief,


s: King in all feasts, a tall Sir Loyne of BEEF,


s: Fat venison pasties smoaking, 'tis no fable,


s: Swans in their broath came swimming to the table."--


s: justice of peace is knuckle-deep in goose, you may without


s: Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy,


s: Jonson's THE DEVIL IS AN ASS, act. v. scene 4.


s: Greedy.  This is a lord, and some think this a favour;


s: But I had rather have my hand in my dumpling."


s: Massinger's NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS, 1633.


s: Or make me cinders too, or quench his flame


s: Lesse lords that shar'd with me in state


s: 'Tis my chiefe beauty thinner lights shine there.


s: But, 'cause another loves, doth love it:


s: "But Lucilla, who now began to frie in the flames of love,


s: all the company being departed," &c.--Lyly's EUPHUES, 1579,


s: Upon my forme, which her affections drew,


s: Shee was Love's martyr, and in flames did frye."


s: Chain'd to her brave feet with such arts,


s: The floore lay pav'd with broken hearts.


s: It was<37.3> Amyntor's Grove, that Chloris


s: Her breath, like to the whispering winde,


s: Was calme as thought, sweet as her minde;


s: The perfume and<37.4> the pearle within;


s: Her<37.5> selfe the Heav'n in which did meet


s: The windes have brought their hyre<37.6> of sweet


s: To blesse this payre,<37.7> chafe and consume;


s: If uninjoy'd, but th'<37.11> shade of blisse.


s: Wee bound our loose hayre with the vine,


s: To Chloris!  Chloris!  Heare, oh, heare!


s: And choakt the wide jawes of our feares.


s: Cleare as the skye from whence they came,


s: His eagle sends, she stoops in vaine.<37.14>


s: Yet spake eighteene; each grace did strive,


s: Who first should shew his prettier worth.


s: And straight breake through th' opposing cloud?


s: So through her vayle her bright haire flew,


s: But thinne, because her eyes were neere.


s: May your faire sprigges be neere betray'd


s: To<37.16> eating worme or fouler storme;


s: No sharpe frost cut, no North-winde teare,


s: But<37.17> may the sun and gentle weather,


s: Load you with fruit, such as your Father


s: From you with all the joyes doth gather:


s: 'Till th' sithe is snatcht away from Time.<37.18>


s: unquestionably no other than Henry Jermyn, or Jarmin, who, though


s: "Yet when thy noble choice appear'd, that by


s: Their combat first prepar'd thy victory:


s: Jermyn's name is associated with that of Porter in the noblest


s: dedication in our language, that to DAVENANT'S POEMS, 1638, 12mo.


s: "My labour did to greater things aspire,


s: Out of whose ashes should spring up to birth


s: the walls of rooms were formerly lined with tapestry instead


s: Time having his scythe snatched from him is bolder and finer than


s: Why shouldst thou<38.2> sweare I am forsworn,


s: I should<38.4> all other beauties wrong,


s: Should<38.5> I still dote upon thy face.


s: For treasure in un-plow'd-up<38.7> ground.


s: Then if, when I have lov'd my<38.8> round,


s: With spoyles<38.9> of meaner beauties crown'd,


s: ed. 1662, p. 214, under the title of "On his Mistresse,


s: who unjustly taxed him of leaving her off."


s: Shee fled him once, whose reede-pipe rent


s: At IPHIS feete, who smiles at<39.2> all:


s: And he (whilst she his curles doth deck)


s: Knowes now no bayes but round her haire;


s: Herself those joyes with voice and hand,


s: And with the string their feathers bound


s: of Bohemia, b. 1622.  See Townend's DESCENDANTS OF THE STUARTS,


s: Were it that you so shun me, 'cause you wish


s: (Cruels't) a fellow in your wretchednesse,


s: Or that you take some small ease in your owne


s: Torments, to heare another sadly groane,


s: So truely blest, to be so curst by thee:


s: But oh! my cries to that doe rather adde,


s: Of which too much already thou hast had,


s: And thou art gladly sad to heare my moane;


s: Thou most unjust, that really dust know,


s: And feelst thyselfe the flames I burne in.  Oh!


s: How can you beg to be set loose from that


s: That pity me, for which yourself must dye,


s: To love not her loves you, yet know the pain


s: What 'tis to love, and not be lov'd againe.


s: Flye on, flye on, swift Racer, untill she


s: Whom thou of all ador'st shall learne of thee


s: The pace t'outfly thee, and shall teach thee groan,


s: What terrour 'tis t'outgo and be outgon.


s: Run then like spoakes in wheeles eternally,


s: And never overtake?  Be dragg'd on still


s: By the weake cordage of your untwin'd will


s: Round without hope of rest?  No, I will turne,


s: And with my goodnes boldly meete your scorne;


s: My goodnesse which Heav'n pardon, and that fate


s: But I am chang'd!  Bright reason, that did give


s: One breath yet longer, and to will, and see


s: Hath reacht me pow'r to scorne as well as thee:


s: That thou, which proudly tramplest on my grave,


s: Thyselfe mightst fall, conquer'd my double slave:


s: That thou mightst, sinking in thy triumphs, moan,


s: Hayle, holy cold! chaste temper, hayle! the fire


s: Rav'd<40.2> o're my purer thoughts I feel t' expire,


s: And I am candied ice.  Yee pow'rs! if e're


s: Oh make me choose rather to freeze than burne.


s: "In the person of a Lady to her Inconstant Servant," which are


s: Perhaps the correct reading may be "reav'd." See Worcester's


s: DICTIONARY, art. RAVE, where Menage's supposition of affinity


s: between RAVE and BEREAVE is perhaps a little too slightingly


s: Oh thou, that swing'st upon the waving eare<41.2>


s: Drunk ev'ry night with a delicious teare<41.4>


s: Dropt thee from Heav'n, where now th'art reard.


s: The joyes of earth and ayre are thine intire,


s: That with thy feet and wings dost hop and flye;


s: And when thy poppy workes, thou dost retire


s: Up with the day, the Sun thou welcomst then,


s: Sportst in the guilt plats<41.5> of his beames,


s: And all these merry dayes mak'st merry men,<41.6>


s: But ah, the sickle! golden eares are cropt;


s: Sharpe frosty fingers all your flowrs have topt,


s: And what sithes spar'd, winds shave off quite.


s: Poore verdant foole! and now green ice, thy joys


s: Large and as lasting as thy peirch<41.7> of grasse,


s: Bid us lay in 'gainst winter raine, and poize


s: Their flouds with an o'erflowing glasse.


s: Thou best of men and friends? we will create


s: And spite of this cold Time and frosen Fate,


s: Our sacred harthes shall burne eternally


s: Shall strike his frost-stretch'd winges, dissolve and flye


s: Dropping December shall come weeping in,


s: But when in show'rs of old Greeke<41.8> we beginne,


s: Night as cleare Hesper shall our tapers whip


s: From the light casements, where we play,


s: And the darke hagge from her black mantle strip,


s: Thus richer then untempted kings are we,


s: Though lord of all what seas imbrace, yet he


s: in 1658.  This poem is extracted in CENSURA LITERARIA, ix. 352,


s: as a favourable specimen of Lovelace's poetical genius.  The


s: text is manifestly corrupt, but I have endeavoured to amend it.


s: In Elton's SPECIMENS OF CLASSIC POETS, 1814, i. 148, is a


s: translation of Anacreon's Address to the Cicada, or Tree-Locust


s: (Lovelace's grasshopper?), which is superior to the modern poem,


s: being less prolix, and more natural in its manner.  In all


s: Lovelace's longer pieces there are too many obscure and feeble


s: conceits, and too many evidences of a leaning to the metaphysical


s: "Oh shrill-voiced insect! that with dew-drops sweet


s: GLOSSARY OF ARCHAIC WORDS, 1860, art. PLAT (seventh and eighth


s: "----toiling ants perchance delight to hear


s: It is it question, perhaps, whether Lovelace intended by the


s: GRASSHOPPER the CICADA or the LOCUSTA.  See Sir Thomas Browne's


s: INQUIRIES INTO VULGAR ERRORS (Works, by Wilkins, 1836, iii. 93).


s: Hither with hallowed steps as is the ground,


s: That must enshrine this saint with lookes profound,


s: And sad aspects as the dark vails you weare,


s: Virgins opprest, draw gently, gently neare;


s: Enter the dismall chancell of this rooome,


s: Where each pale guest stands fixt a living tombe;


s: With trembling hands helpe to remove this earth


s: To its last death and first victorious birth:


s: Let gums and incense fume, who are at strife


s: To enter th' hearse and breath in it new life;


s: Mingle your steppes with flowers as you goe,


s: Which, as they haste to fade, will speake your woe.


s: And when y' have plac't your tapers on her urn,


s: How poor a tribute 'tis to weep and mourn!


s: That flood the channell of your eye-lids fils,


s: When you lose trifles, or what's lesse, your wills.


s: Be blind unto the world, and drop your eyes;


s: Waste and consume, burn downward as this fire


s: That's fed no more: so willingly expire;


s: Passe through the cold and obscure narrow way,


s: Then light your torches at the spring of day,


s: Or, if you faint to be so blest, oh heare!


s: If not to dye, dare but to live like her:


s: Dare to live virgins, till the honour'd age


s: Of thrice fifteen cals matrons on the stage,


s: Whilst not a blemish or least staine is scene


s: On your white roabe 'twixt fifty and fifteene;


s: But as it in your swathing-bands was given,


s: Bring't in your winding sheet unsoyl'd to Heav'n.


s: Daere to do purely, without compact good,


s: But him, who now in thanks bows either knee


s: To which delights of pallaces are narrow,


s: And, lasting as their smiles, dig you a roome,


s: Where practise the probation of your tombe


s: With ever-bended knees and piercing pray'r,


s: Smooth the rough passe through craggy earth to ay'r;


s: Flame there as lights that shipwrackt mariners


s: May put in safely, and secure their feares,


s: Who, adding to your joyes, now owe you theirs.


s: Virgins, if thus you dare but courage take


s: To follow her in life, else through this lake


s: Of Nature wade, and breake her earthly bars,


s: Y' are fixt with her upon a throne of stars,


s: Where round you love and joy for ever shine.


s: Which at your weaknes weeps.  Spare that vaine teare,


s: Rise and walk home; there groaning prostrate fall,


s: For howsoe're you move, may heare, or see,


s: of Warblenton, Co. Sussex, and of Bedhampton, co. Hants, died


s: some time before 1649, unmarried.  She was the sister of Charles


s: Cotton the elder, and aunt to the poet.  See WALTON'S ANGLER,


s: Sing out, pent soules, sing cheerefully!


s: And daunce to the music of your chaines.


s: That trac't the stars, 'spite of report,


s: And durst be good, though chidden for't:


s: Thus, chaste as th' ayre whither shee's fled,


s: Of<44.2> which the clearer was not knowne,


s: The smiles and teares of heav'n and earth!


s: And though you finde this faire-built tombe


s: Possibly, the Edward Filmer mentioned here was the same as the


s: author of "Frenche Court Ayres, with their Ditties englished,"


s: Headley (SELECT BEAUTIES, ed. 1810, ii. p. 42) has remarked


s: the similarity between these lines and some in Collins'


s: Whose glory through their mist doth brighter rise!


s: And griefe triumphant breaking through each line,


s: How it commands the face! so sweet a scorne


s: To this, (oth' height of all the wheele) below,


s: That mightiest monarchs by this shaded booke


s: May coppy out their proudest, richest looke.


s: Whilst the true eaglet this quick luster spies,


s: And by his SUN'S enlightens his owne eyes;


s: He cures<45.2> his cares, his burthen feeles, then streight


s: Joyes that so lightly he can beare such weight;


s: Whilst either eithers passion doth borrow,


s: And both doe grieve the same victorious sorrow.


s: These, my best LILLY, with so bold a spirit


s: And soft a grace, as if thou didst inherit


s: For that time all their greatnesse, and didst draw


s: With those brave eyes your royal sitters saw.


s: Not as of old, when a rough hand did speake


s: A strong aspect, and a faire face, a weake;


s: When only a black beard cried villaine, and


s: When chrystall typified in a white spot,


s: And the bright ruby was but one red blot;


s: Thou dost the things Orientally the same


s: Not only paintst its colour, but its flame:


s: Thou sorrow canst designe without a teare,


s: And with the man his very hope or feare;


s: So that th' amazed world shall henceforth finde


s: spelling.  "At Lord Northumberland's, at Sion, is a remarkable


s: picture of King Charles I, holding a letter directed 'au roi


s: stronger than his former.  The King has none of the melancholy


s: grace which Vandyck alone, of all his painters, always gave him.


s: It has a sterner countenance, and expressive of the tempests he


s: had experienced."--Walpole's ANECDOTES OF PAINTING IN ENGLAND,


s: With that delight the Royal captiv's<46.2> brought


s: Before the throne, to breath his farewell thought,


s: To tel his last tale, and so end with it,


s: Findes something there fate cannot overcome,


s: Cals the chain'd prince, and by his glory led,


s: First reaches him his crowne, and then his head;


s: Who ne're 'til now thinks himself slave and poor;


s: For though nought else, he had himselfe before.


s: He weepes at this faire chance, nor wil allow,


s: But that the diadem doth brand his brow,


s: And under-rates himselfe below mankinde,


s: Who first had lost his body, now his minde,


s: With such a joy came I to heare my dombe,


s: When, like good angels who have heav'nly charge


s: To steere and guide mans sudden giddy barge,


s: She snatcht me from the rock I was upon,


s: Where I, thus wound out of th' immense abysse,


s: Was straight set on a pinacle of blisse.


s: Let me leape in againe! and by that fall


s: Bring me to my first woe, so cancel all:


s: Ah! 's this a quitting of the debt you owe,


s: To crush her and her goodnesse at one blowe?


s: Would make friends grieve, and furies weep to see.


s: Now, ye sage spirits, which infuse in men


s: Informe my tongue in labour what to say,


s: But you are silent as the ev'nings ayre,


s: When windes unto their hollow grots repaire.<46.3>


s: Oh, then accept the all that left me is,


s: When she walks forth, ye perfum'd wings oth' East,


s: Fan her, 'til with the Sun she hastes to th' West,


s: And when her heav'nly course calles up the day,


s: And breakes as bright, descend, some glistering ray,


s: To circle her, and her as glistering haire,


s: That all may say a living saint shines there.


s: Slow Time, with woollen feet make thy soft pace,


s: And leave no tracks ith' snow of her pure face;


s: But when this vertue must needs fall, to rise


s: The brightest constellation in the skies;


s: When we in characters of fire shall reade,


s: How cleere she was alive, how spotless, dead.


s: For onely you can her close mourners be,


s: Draw neer, and make of hallowed teares a dearth:


s: Goodnes and justice both are fled the earth.


s: Broaken with vowes, eaten with grateful smart,


s: And beside this, the vild<46.4> world nothing hath


s: So then, who thinkes to satisfie in time,


s: Must give a satisfaction for that crime:


s: Since she alone knowes the gifts value, she


s: And worthyly to th' life paynt her owne story


s: In its true colours and full native glory;


s: Which when perhaps she shal be heard to tell,


s: Buffoones and theeves, ceasing to do ill,


s: And then woo others from the same offence;


s: Of his red spots, shal startle into white:


s: All good (rewards layd by) shal stil increase


s: For love of her, and villany decease;<46.5>


s: Naught<46.6> be ignote, not so much out of feare


s: Shall bow it selfe<46.7> in lawrels to her praise,


s: To crown her conqu'ring goodnes, and proclaime


s: The due renowne and glories of her name:


s: That, 'stead of praysing, I shal scandal her,


s: And leave, when with my purest art I'v done,


s: Scarce the designe of what she is begunne:


s: Yet men shal send me home, admir'd, exact;


s: Proud, that I could from her so wel detract.


s: Where, then, thou bold instinct, shal I begin


s: My endlesse taske?  To thanke her were a sin


s: Great as not speake, and not to speake, a blame


s: Beyond what's worst, such as doth want a name;


s: So thou my all, poore gratitude, ev'n thou


s: My life, my love, my very soule, a slave?


s: Fond thought, in this thou teachest me to give


s: What first was hers, since by her breath I live;


s: And hast but show'd me, how I may resigne


s: Possession of those thing are none of mine.


s: to have assisted him in some emergency, unknown to us except


s: cave, in which it was supposed to await the commands of its


s: sovereign Aeolus, or Aeolos.  It is to this myth that Lovelace


s: The early English poets were rather partial to the introduction


s: of miniature-pictures of the Golden Age on similar occasions


s: to the present.  Thus Carew, in his poem TO SAXHAM, says:--


s: Cold deepe, burnt in thy flames, oh faire!


s: To what heav'n fly'st? div'st to what shoare,


s: Hath brought up OXFORD with him to show you;


s: Pray be not frighted--Tho the scaene and gown's


s: The lines each honest Englishman may speake:


s: Yet not mistake his mother-tongue for Greeke,


s: For stil 'twas part of his vow'd liturgie:--


s: Wishing all those that lov'd 'em here asleepe,


s: You'd smile to see, how he do's vex and shake,


s: Speakes naught; but, if the PROLOGUE do's but take,


s: Or the first act were past the pikes once, then--


s: Then hopes and joys, then frowns and fears agen,


s: In presence of you all.  In short, you'd say


s: More hopes of mirth are in his looks then play.


s: These feares are for the noble and the wise;


s: But if 'mongst you there are such fowle dead eyes,


s: As can damne unaraign'd, cal law their pow'rs,


s: And with the house shift their decreed desires,


s: .    .    .    .    .    .    No, he wil on,


s: So far from quarr'lling with himselfe and wit,


s: Since finding nothing worthy of their hate,


s: They reach him that themselves must envy at:


s: H. E. D. P. iii. 289, and Halliwell's DICTIONARY OF OLD PLAYS,


s: art. SCHOLAR.  From the terms of the epilogue it seems to have


s: been a piece occupying two hours in the performance.  Judging,


s: I presume, from the opening lines, Mr. Halliwell supposes it


s: to have been originally acted at Gloucester Hall.  Probably


s: The stubborne author of the trifle<48.1> crime,


s: That just now cheated you of two hours' time,


s: Presumptuous it lik't him,<48.2> began to grow


s: Carelesse, whether it pleased you or no.


s: But we who ground th' excellence of a play


s: To take your money, ere his oath or word


s: His SCHOLLARS school'd, sayd if he had been wise


s: He should have wove in one two COMEDIES;


s: The first for th' gallery, in which the throne


s: To their amazement should descend alone,


s: The rosin-lightning flash, and monster spire


s: Like to themselves, all spirit, fancy, wit,


s: In which plots should be subtile as a flame,


s: Disguises would make PROTEUS stil the same:


s: That ev'n they should thinke 'em so, not drest;


s: Tickled, and th' actors acted, not their crimes,


s: So he might equally applause have gain'd


s: Of th' hardned, sooty, and the snowy hand.<48.3>


s: Where now one SO SO<48.4> spatters, t'other: no!


s: Tis his first play; twere solecisme 'tshould goe;


s: The next 't show'd pritily, but searcht within


s: It appeares bare and bald, as is his chin;


s: The towne-wit sentences: A SCHOLARS PLAY!


s: Pish!  I know not why, but th'ave not the way.<48.5>


s: We, whose gaine is all our pleasure, ev'n these


s: Are bound by justice and religion to please;


s: Which he, whose pleasure's all his gaine, goes by


s: Culls out the few, the worthy, at whose feet


s: His fancies first fruits: profit he knowes none,


s: Which if your thoughts at going out will pay,


s: Hee'l not looke farther for a second day.<48.6>


s: he liked it himself," or presumptuously self-satisfied.


s: The phrase seems to be somewhat akin to the Italian "SI, SI,"


s: to the play when it was first performed by the fellow-collegians


s: of the poet at Gloucester Hall, as an amateur attempt in the


s: dramatic line, but were first added when "The Scholars" was


s: reproduced in London, and the parts sustained by ordinary actors.


s: Wouldst thou with tempests lye?  Then bow


s: Who<49.6> both imbrac't her God and flame;


s: Her box or gem, the<49.9> thing or show?


s: The selfesame knack, for which you pine;


s: The gold alloyd<49.12> (almost halfe brasse),


s: And th' blood in each veine doth appeare,


s: The strings like scaines, steale into his minde


s: Ten thousand false<49.13> and feigned joyes


s: Far worse then they; whilst, like whipt boys,


s: After this scourge hee's hush with toys.


s: This<49.14> heard, Sir, play stil in her eyes,


s: The torch laughs peece-meale to consume.


s: And the word seems also to have been employed to signify


s: the loose women who, in early times, made Covent Garden


s: and its neighbourhood their special haunt.  See Cotgrave's


s: means only a woman who, in contradistinction to a lady of rank,


s: has no adventitious qualities to recommend her.


s: The birds,<50.4> that wanton in the aire,


s: AND SINCE SET FOR THREE VOICES.  By John Wilson, Dr. in Music,


s: "I that er'st while the world's sweet air did draw."


s: "Now comes my lover tripping like the roe,


s: And brings my longings tangled in her hair."


s: I should fall foul in words upon fond man,


s: That can forget his excellence and honour,


s: in accordance with a MS. copy of the song printed by the late


s: Dr. Bliss, in his edition of Woods ATHENAE.  If Dr. Bliss had


s: been aware of the extraordinary corruptions under which the text


s: to LINNET-LIKE CONFINED (Percy's RELIQUES, ii. 247; Moxon's ed.)


s: Ellis (SPECIMENS OF EARLY ENGLISH POETS, ed. 1801, iii. 252)


s: says that this latter reading is "more intelligible." It is not,


s: however, either what Lovelace wrote, or what (it may be presumed)


s: than the passage as it stands, COMMITTED signifying, in fact,


s: nothing more than CONFINED.  It is fortunate for the lovers


s: of early English literature that Bp. Percy had comparatively


s: little to do with it.  Emendation of a text is well enough;


s: but the wholesale and arbitrary slaughter of it is quite another


s: Now the peace is made at the foes rate,<51.3>


s: Whilst men of armes to kettles their old helmes translate,


s: And drinke in caskes of honourable plate.


s: He whose glories shine so brave and high,


s: That captive they in triumph leade each care and eye,


s: To his lovely bride, in love with scars,


s: Whose eyes wound deepe in peace, as doth his sword in wars;


s: They shortly must depose the Queen of Stars:


s: Give me scorching heat, thy heat, dry Sun,


s: That to this payre I may drinke off an ocean:


s: Yet leave my grateful thirst unquensht, undone;


s: To the couple! to the couple! th' are divine.


s: Earl of Norwich, may be found in Eachard's HISTORY, Rushworth's


s: COLLECTIONS, Whitelocke's MEMOIRS, Collins' PEERAGE by Brydges,


s: (ed. 1779, ii. 479).  Whitelocke speaks very highly of his


s: military character.  In a poem called THE GALLANTS OF THE TIMES,


s: "A great burgandine for WILL MURRAY'S sake


s: GEORGE SYMONDS, he vows the first course to take:


s: Who took the bear by the nose immediately;


s: To see them so forward Hugh Pollard did smile,


s: And held up his head that GEORGE GORING might see,


s: Who then cryed aloud, TO MEE, BOYS, TO MEE!"


s: Consult Davenant's Works, 1673, p. 247, and FRAGMENTA AULICA,


s: the admiral of that name, in the same manner as A LA BOURBON,


s: mentioned elsewhere in LUCASTA, derived its title from another


s: celebrated person.  Those who have any acquaintance with the


s: history of early English music need not to be informed that


s: it was formerly the practice of our own composers to seek the


s: patronage of the gentlemen and ladies about the Court for their


s: works, and to identify their names with them.  Thus we have


s: Thou maist pretend within my breast to bide,


s: I bid adieu to love, and all the world beside.


s: Thou spend'st thy shafts but at my breast in vain,


s: Thou canst not ever hope to warme her wound,


s: Hurle all your lightning, and strike ev'ry dart,


s: Before I feele this pleasing, pleasing paine.


s: Nor can I live but sweetly murder'd with


s: Her martyr, and put on my roabe of flame:


s: But joy t' enjoy thee, though in griefe.


s: See! that which chaynes you, you chaine here;


s: He bindes your hands, but you his heart.


s: Teares fat the griefe that they should sterve;


s: Which (as it through my pipe doth speed)


s: Yet<53.5> sooner they'l agree, one paire,


s: Our breath knows nought but east and west.


s: That, well all sayd (for what there lay),


s: Your phansie,<53.6> madam; that's to have


s: Shall teach<53.7> you all you can admire!


s: With edge of steele the square wood shapes,


s: And DIDO<53.8> to it chaunts or scrapes.


s: Such swift notes he and 's wheels do run;


s: As kings harangues, to one and all.<53.10>


s: To passe me, or in trill or<53.12> tone,


s: And the<53.13> smart lute who should excell,


s: And strive for sweetnes with the pin.<53.14>


s: Whilst my true heart still beats the time;


s: If you winde up to the highest fret,<53.16>


s: Take all notes with your skillfull eyes;


s: "Madam A. L." may very probably be two different persons: for


s: Carew in his Poems (edit. 1651, 8vo. p. 2) has a piece "To A. L.;


s: decide.  It is not particularly unlike the style of the author of


s: appropriated by anybody else, and as I am reluctant to omit any


s: piece which Lovelace is at all likely to have composed, I give


s: these lines just as I find them in Durfey, where they are set to


s: "Yet may I 'mbrace, sigh, kisse, the rest," &c.,


s: thus leaving out a line and a half or upward of the poem,


s: I subjoin the first stanza of "Dido" as printed in the MUSICA


s: A somewhat different version is given in Durfey's PILLS TO PURGE


s: of letters, of the alphabet or otherwise, to the purpose of


s: expressing the sounds or notes of a composition.


s: Now fie upon that everlasting life!  I dye!


s: As if love fir'd his torch at a moist eye,


s: Oh, let me live and shout, when I fall on;


s: Let me ev'n triumph in the first attempt!


s: Loves duellist from conquest 's not exempt,


s: When his fair murdresse shall not gain one groan,


s: Let me make my approach, when I lye downe


s: With counter-wrought and travers eyes;<54.1>


s: With peals of confidence batter the towne;


s: No, I will vary stormes with sun and winde;


s: March in and pread,<54.2> or starve the garrison.


s: Let her make sallies hourely: yet I'le find


s: (Though all beat of) shee's to be undermin'd.


s: Then may it please your little excellence


s: That henceforth none in tears dare love comence


s: (Her thoughts ith' full, his, in th' eclipse);


s: On paine of having 's launce broke on her bed,


s: That he be branded all free beauties' slave,


s: And his own hollow eyes be domb'd his grave:


s: Since in your hoast that coward nere was fed,


s: Who to his prostrate ere was prostrated.


s: his military vocabulary.  He wishes to express that he had


s: fortified his eyes to resist the glances of his fair opponent.


s: Tell me, ye subtill judges in loves treasury,


s: Inform me, which hath most inricht mine eye,


s: Ye cloudy spark lights, whose vast multitude


s: Of fires are harder to be found then view'd,


s: Waite on this star in her first magnitude.


s: Calmely or roughly!  Ah, she shines too much;


s: Chrusht with too strong a hand, or soft a touch.


s: Lovers, beware! a certaine, double harme


s: Waits your proud hopes, her looks al-killing charm


s: Thus with her eyes brave Tamyris spake dread,


s: Which when the kings dull breast not entered,


s: Finding she could not looke, she strook him dead.


s: writers, does not seem to bear in the present case any offensive


s: meaning.  The late editors of Nares quote a passage from one of


s: Cowley's ESSAYS, in which that writer seems to imply by the term


s: Since the note at p. 133 <i.e. note 55.1> was written,


s: the following description by Aubrey (LIVES, &c., ii. 332),


s: Garden, is an excellent piece of hers, drawne after she was newly


s: browne haire.  She had a perfect healthy constitution; strong;


s: good skin; well-proportioned; inclining to a BONA-ROBA."


s: Of a poor marmoset; nought but boan, boan;


s: Give me a nakednesse, with her cloath's on.


s: Such, whose white-sattin upper coat of skin,


s: Sure, it is meant good husbandry<56.2> in men,


s: T' repair their sides, and get their ribb agen.


s: Hard hap unto that huntsman, that decrees


s: Fat joys for all his swet, when as he sees,


s: After his 'say,<56.3> nought but his keepers fees.


s: Then, Love, I beg, when next thou tak'st thy bow,


s: Thy angry shafts, and dost heart-chasing go,


s: Passe RASCALL DEARE, strike me the largest doe.<56.4>


s: sportsmen, signifying a lean beast, not worth pursuit.  Thus


s: thys Welchman to stand still, and forbade him in any wyse


s: to shote at no rascal dere, but to make sure of the greate male,


s: BOOK OF SAINT ALBANS, 1486, RASCAL is used in the signification


s: merely of a beast other than one of "enchace."


s: "And where that ye come in playne or in place,


s: I shall you tell whyche ben bestys of enchace.


s: One of them is the bucke: a nother is the doo:


s: The foxe and the marteron: and the wylde roo.


s: And ye shall, my dere chylde, other bestys all,


s: Where so ye theym finde, Rascall ye shall them call."


s: Give me more love, ah, quickly give me more,


s: Your glories are eclipst, and hidden in the grave


s: And, Caelia, you can neither altars have,


s: And so also Stanley (AYRES AND DIALOGUES, set by J. Gamble,


s: And aske the thing that thou dost crave.


s: In all ill yeares, was<58.1> ever knowne


s: Fooles dote on sattin<58.2> motions lac'd:


s: At<58.3> th' barrell's head there shines the vine,


s: There quench my heat, and thou shalt sup


s: That not adorne, but cloud<58.4> thy wast;


s: Cord.     Distressed pilgrim, whose dark clouded eyes


s: Speak thee a martyr to love's cruelties,


s: Amor.                      What pitying voice I hear,


s: Cord.                           Pr'ythee, draw near.


s: Amor.     I shall but say, kind swain, what doth become


s: Cord.                      First, it does freely flye


s: But, once condemn'd to scorn, it fetter'd lies,


s: Amor.     I pity its sad fate, since its offence


s: Was but for love.  Can<59.1> tears recall it thence?


s: Cord.     O no, such tears, as do for pity call,


s: She proudly scorns, and glories at their fall.


s: Amor.     Since neither sighs nor tears, kind shepherd, tell,


s: Cord.                           Thou may'st as well


s: Amor.                           Can no art move


s: Cord.     O no! 'tis only Destiny or<59.2> Fate


s: Fashions our wills either to love or hate.


s: Amor.     Then, captive heart, since that no humane spell


s: Hath power to graspe thee his, farewell.


s: AND THREE VOYCES, By Henry Lawes, 1653-5-8, where it is set


s: to music for two trebles by H. L.  It was not included in the


s: posthumous collection of Lovelace's poems.  This dialogue


s: is also found in WITS INTERPRETER, by J. Cotgrave, 1662, 8vo,


s: page 203 (first printed in 1655), and a few improved readings


s: You, that can haply<60.2> mixe your joyes with cries,


s: Can caroll out a dirge, and in one breath


s: Sing to the tune either of life, or death;


s: You, that can weepe the gladnesse of the spheres,


s: And pen a hymne, in stead of inke, with teares;


s: Here, here your unproportion'd wit let fall,


s: And greete that little greatnesse, which from th' wombe


s: Dropt both a load to th' cradle and the tombe.


s: Bright soule! teach us, to warble with what feet


s: Thy swathing linnen and thy winding sheet,


s: Weepe,<60.3> or shout forth that fonts solemnitie,


s: Which at once christn'd and buried<60.4> thee,


s: And change our shriller passions with that sound,


s: First told thee into th' ayre, then to<60.5> the ground.


s: Ah, wert thou borne for this? only to call


s: The King and Queen guests to your buriall!


s: To bid good night, your day not yet begun,


s: And shew<60.6> a setting, ere a rising sun!


s: Or wouldst thou have thy life a martyrdom?


s: First sealing it with water, then thy blood?


s: As when on blazing wings a blest man sores,


s: And having past to God through fiery dores,


s: Straight 's roab'd with flames, when the same element,


s: Which was his shame, proves now his ornament;


s: Oh, how he hast'ned death, burn't to be fryed,<60.7>


s: Kill'd twice with each delay, till deified.


s: So swift hath been thy race, so full of flight,


s: Like him condemn'd, ev'n aged with a night,


s: Cutting all lets with clouds, as if th' hadst been


s: Like angels plum'd, and borne a Cherubin.


s: Or, in your journey towards heav'n, say,


s: Tooke you the world a little in your way?


s: Saw'st and dislik'st its vaine pompe, then didst flye


s: Ah! holy traytour to your brother prince,


s: Rob'd of his birth-right and preheminence!


s: Could you ascend yon' chaire of state e're him,


s: And snatch from th' heire the starry diadem?


s: As gods on earth are lesse then saints in heav'n.


s: Triumph! sing triumphs, then!  Oh, put on all


s: Your richest lookes, drest for this festivall!


s: Thoughts full of ravisht reverence, with eyes


s: Clap wings with Seraphins before the throne


s: And teach your soules new mirth, such as may be


s: But ah! these blast your feasts, the jubilies


s: We send you up are sad, as were our cries,


s: Thus crown'd, then when we buried thee before.


s: Princesse in heav'n, forgivenes! whilst we


s: in minute information relative to the family of Charles I.


s: Even in Anderson's ROYAL GENEALOGIES, 1732, and in the folio


s: editions of Rapin and Tindal, these details are overlooked.


s: At page 36 of his DESCENDANTS OF THE STUARTS, 1858, Mr. Townend


s: observes that two of the children of Charles I. died in infancy,


s: and of these the Princesse Katherine, commemorated by Lovelace,


s: was perhaps one.  The present verses were originally printed


s: in MUSARUM OXONIENSIUM CHARISTERIA, Oxon. 1638, 4to, from which


s: a few better readings have been obtained.  With the exceptions


s: mentioned in the notes, the variations of the earlier text from


s: In Ellis's ORIGINAL LETTERS, Second Series, iii. 265, is printed


s: a scrap from Harl. MS. 6988, in the handwriting of the Princess


s: Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I., giving a list of the children


s: of that prince by Henrietta Maria, with the dates of their birth.


s: the princess was born on the 29th of January, 1637-8.  This


s: writer of the MS., the existence of TWO Princesses Katherine must


s: pronounced like FRY and FRYED: for Lord North, in his


s: FOREST OF VARIETIES, 1645, has these lines--


s: Here evidently FREE is intended to rhyme with DIE.


s: At strife, who first shal kisse your hand.


s: AMORIBUS LIBRI OCTO.  The translation of this celebrated work,


s: to which Lovelace contributed the commendatory verses here


s: republished, was executed by his friend Anthony Hodges, A.M.,


s: of New College, Oxford, and was printed at Oxford in 1638, 8vo.


s: There had been already a translation by W. Burton, purporting


s: to be done from the Greek, in 1597, 4to.  The text of 1649 and


s: that of 1638 exhibit so many variations, that the reader may be


s: glad to have the opportunity of comparison:--


s: At strife, who first shall kisse your hand.


s: See Halliwell's DICTIONARY OF OLD PLAYS, 1860, art. CLYTOPHON.


s: as popular in its way among the readers of both sexes as Sir


s: Richard Baker's CHRONICLE appears to have been.  The former was


s: especially recommended to those who sought occasional relaxation


s: from severer studies.  See Higford's INSTITUTIONS, 1658, 8vo,


s: p. 46-7.  In his poem of THE SURPRIZE, Cotton describes his


s: nymph as reading the ARCADIA on the bank of a river--


s: That, whilst her check a blush did warm,


s: CHARICLEA, which was popular in this country at an early period.


s: A drama on the subject was performed before Court in 1574.


s: of ACHILLES TATIUS, in which the Greek text was printed


s: Hearke, reader! wilt be learn'd ith' warres?


s: the right and genuine use of the Rapier and of the Sword,


s: as well against the right handed as against the left handed


s: man 'is displayed.' [By G. A.] London, 1639, 8vo.  With several


s: illustrative woodcuts."  The lines, as originally printed


s: in PALLAS ARMATA, vary from those subsequently admitted into


s: Harke, reader, would'st be learn'd ith' warres,


s: Strike a league with bookes and starres,


s: How have I bin religious? what strange good


s: Heald wounded states? made kings and kingdoms one?


s: To let me live t' have said I have read thee.


s: Faire star, ascend! the joy! the life! the light


s: Of this tempestuous age, this darke worlds sight!


s: Oh, from thy crowne of glory dart one flame


s: May strike a sacred reverence, whilest thy name


s: We bowing, sing; and whilst we praise, we pray.


s: Of wit, like Time, stil in it selfe did run,


s: Commission, how far this or that shal live;


s: Signes death to all, her selfe cam never dye.


s: And now thy purple-robed Traegedy,<63.2>


s: In her imbroider'd buskins, cals mine eye,


s: T' obey his death, whom thousand lives obey'd;


s: Whilst that the mighty foole his scepter breakes,


s: And through his gen'rals wounds his own doome speakes,


s: The costliest monarch with the cheapest man.


s: Souldiers may here to their old glories adde,


s: The LOVER love, and be with reason MAD:<63.3>


s: Who wilder then his bull did teare the house


s: (Hurling his language with the canvas stone):


s: Twas thought the monster ror'd the sob'rer tone.


s: But ah! when thou thy sorrow didst inspire


s: With passions, blacke as is her darke attire,


s: That thou hast griev'd, and with unthought redresse


s: Dri'd their wet eyes who now thy mercy blesse;


s: Joy wip't it off, laughter straight sprung't agen.


s: Now ruddy checked Mirth with rosie wings<63.5>


s: Fans ev'ry brow with gladnesse, whilst she sings


s: Nothing but pleasure, love; and (like the morne)


s: Each face a gen'ral smiling doth adorne.


s: Heare ye, foul speakers, that pronounce the aire


s: Of stewes and shores,<63.6> I will informe you where


s: And how to cloath aright your wanton wit,


s: Without her nasty bawd attending it:<63.7>


s: View here a loose thought sayd with such a grace,


s: So well disguis'd, that 'twas conceiv'd by none


s: And all his naked parts so vail'd, th' expresse


s: The shape with clowding the uncomlinesse;


s: Receiv'd, had not been buried with thee,


s: The stage (as this worke) might have liv'd and lov'd


s: Her lines, the austere Skarlet<63.8> had approv'd;


s: And th' actors wisely been from that offence


s: As cleare, as they are now from audience.<63.9>


s: Thus with thy Genius did the scaene expire,<63.10>


s: That now (to spread a darknesse over all)


s: And though from these thy Embers we receive


s: Some warmth, so much as may be said, we live;


s: That we dare praise thee blushlesse, in the head


s: Of the best piece Hermes to Love<63.11> e're read;


s: And feast each other with remembring it;


s: That we dare speak thy thought, thy acts recite:


s: Yet all men henceforth be afraid to write.


s: It is scarcely necessary to remind the reader that Lovelace was


s: direction, it is hard to speak with confidence.  Among the books


s: of Mr. Thomas Jolley, dispersed in 1853, was a copy of Clenardus


s: INSTITUTIONES GRAECAE LINGUAE, Lugd. Batav. 1626, 8vo., on the


s: title of which was "Richard Lovelace, 1630, March 5," supposed


s: to be the autograph of the poet when a schoolboy.


s: Parliament against the performance of stage-plays and interludes.


s: was a wooden stage for the representation of plays, &c.,


s: and it is here used therefore in its primitive sense.


s: of Mercury or Hermes; or, in other words, LOVE is instructed


s: Lovelace of Hurley, co. Berks, by Anne, daughter of Thomas,


s: Earl of Cleveland.  The first part of LUCASTA was inscribed


s: by the poet himself to Lady Lovelace, his mother.


s: From her, might save the universal ball.


s: That which still makes her mirth to flow,


s: Night! loathed jaylor of the lock'd up sun,


s: Bright eyes lye fettered in thy dungeon,


s: And Heaven it self doth thy dark wards obey.


s: With thee grones, terrors, furies dwell;


s: And with her beams these heavy chaines off shake.


s: Bright eyes break rowling, and with lustre spread,


s: Till th' Earth with play oppressed lies,


s: And drawes again the curtains of her eyes.


s: But, bondslave, I know neither day nor night;


s: Whether she murth'ring sleep, or saving wake;


s: Now broyl'd ith' zone of her reflected light,


s: Then frose, my isicles, not sinews shake.


s: Whil'st the scorch'd shiv'ring world new born


s: Now feels it all the day one rising morn.


s: That beauty should be crown'd in honours chair.


s: Now cleans'd from falsehood, blood and hate,


s: Behold! he sits inthron'd with majestie.


s: A-hunting with his fear'd, exchanged bow.


s: Her crowned self submits to her own laws.


s: Twas not for some calm blessing to deceive,


s: Thou didst thy polish'd hands in shagg'd furs weave;


s: Thou rather would'st a curse have gain'd,


s: Then let thy warm driven snow be ever stain'd.


s: Not that you feared the discolo'ring cold


s: Each in her coarse hair smock of discipline.


s: Nor, Hero-like who, on their crest still wore


s: Thou would'st thy hand should deeper pierce,


s: And, in its softness rough, appear more fierce.


s: That beasts to thee a sacrifice should bleed,


s: This for lay-lovers, that must stand at dore,


s: Salute the threshold, and admire no more;


s: But still contemplate must the hidden muffe.


s: Dull as I was, to think that a court fly


s: And, though a spark, struggles to rise as red.


s: When now, with all his sweets lay'd out in state,


s: And gums calcin'd themselves to powder beat,


s: And in these holy flames doth glad expire;


s: But the sweet little bee's large monument.


s: time on the long prevailing practice of wearing patches,


s: in which it seems that Lucasta acquiesced:--


s: They more affect the works of night than day.


s: The creature strives the Creator to disgrace,


s: By patching that which is a perfect face:


s: Defile not then with spots that face of snow,


s: Where the wise God His workmanship doth show,


s: The light of nature and the light of grace


s: In a poem entitled THE BURSSE OF REFORMATION, in praise of


s: the New Exchange, printed in WIT RESTORED, 1658, patches are


s: enumerated among the wares of all sorts to be procured there:--


s: They were also used for rheum, as appears from a passage in


s: "JUDITH.  I am so troubled with the rheum too.  Mouse, what's


s: HONEY.   How often I have told you you must get a patch."


s: Webster's WORKS, ed. Hazlitt, i. 87.  See


s: "Mrs. Pepys wore patches, and so did my Lady Sandwich and her


s: Curl'd in her court-false-locks of living hair,


s: Butter'd with jessamine the sun left there.


s: Galliard and clinquant she appear'd to give,


s: And teach us A LA MODE more gently live.


s: But as a Moor, who to her cheeks prefers


s: White spots, t' allure her black idolaters,


s: Me thought she look'd all ore-bepatch'd with stars.


s: Like the dark front of some Ethiopian queen,


s: Vailed all ore with gems of red, blew, green,


s: Whose ugly night seem'd masked with days skreen.


s: Whilst the fond people offer'd sacrifice


s: To saphyrs, 'stead of veins and arteries,


s: And bow'd unto the diamonds, not her eyes.


s: Behold LUCASTA'S face, how't glows like noon!


s: Only a cloud or two hangs here and there.


s: Whilst grief, despair and fear dance to the air


s: So you but with a touch from your fair hand


s: Like to the sent'nel stars, I watch all night;


s: Nor will my rolling eyes ere know a west.


s: Ah, my fair murdresse! dost thou cruelly heal


s: And in each mangled part my heart you'l see.


s: And from its crust this almond blanch'd.


s: 'Till in their holds your eyes you stow;


s: And swell your cheeks, bequeath chill death;


s: See! she hath smil'd thee out of breath.


s: Cut by thy chast cold breast, which dwells


s: No sulphur, through whose each blew vein


s: As sick drinks are with old wine dash'd,


s: Thou greiv'd, perchance, one tear let'st fall,


s: Which since runs cleare as doth thy blood;


s: Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant;


s: A little respite from thy flood of sweat!


s: Thou, thine own horse and cart under this plant,


s: Thy spacious tent, fan thy prodigious heat;


s: Down with thy double load of that one grain!


s: Cease, large example of wise thrift, awhile


s: And teach thy frowns a seasonable smile:


s: So Cato sometimes the nak'd Florals saw.<67.2>


s: And thou, almighty foe, lay by thy sting,


s: Whilst thy unpay'd musicians, crickets, sing.


s: And 'stills new life in fields of fueillemort,<67.3>


s: Hath back restor'd their verdure with one ray,


s: And with her eye bid all to play and sport,


s: Ant, to work still! age will thee truant call;


s: And to save now, th'art worse than prodigal.


s: Austere and cynick! not one hour t' allow,


s: To lose with pleasure, what thou gotst with pain;


s: Tearing high-ways with thy ore-charged wain.


s: Not all thy life-time one poor minute live,


s: And thy ore-labour'd bulk with mirth relieve?


s: Thy fatal foes, for breaking of their<67.4> law,


s: Hov'ring above thee: Madam MARGARET PIE:


s: And her fierce servant, meagre Sir JOHN DAW:


s: Thy self and storehouse now they do store up,


s: And thy whole harvest too within their crop.


s: Thus we unt[h]rifty thrive within earth's tomb


s: For some more rav'nous and ambitious jaw:


s: The grain in th' ant's, the ant<67.5> in the pie's womb,


s: The pie in th' hawk's, the hawk<67.6> ith' eagle's maw.


s: So scattering to hord 'gainst a long day,


s: late E. V. Utterson, Esq.--highly praises this little poem, and


s: says that it is not unworthy of Cowper.  I think it highly


s: probable that the translation from Martial (lib. vi. Ep. 15),


s: at the end of the present volume, was executed prior to the


s: composition of these lines; and that the latter were suggested


s: by the former.  Compare the beautiful description of the ant in


s: the PROVERBS OF SOLOMON:--"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider


s: provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the


s: In the poems of John Cleveland, 1669, is a piece entitled


s: "Fuscara, or the Bee Errant," which is of a somewhat similar


s: character, and is by no means a contemptible production, though


s: spoiled by that LUES ALCHYMISTICA which disfigures so much of the


s: writer seem to have been underrated by posterity, in proportion


s: to the undue praise lavished upon him by his contemporaries.


s: means DEAD OR FADED LEAF.  FILEMORT is another form of the same


s: Thy silk's the silk-worm's, and not thine:


s: You lessen to a fly your mistriss' thought,


s: Not all the arms the god of fire ere made


s: Can the soft bulwarks of nak'd love invade.


s: Then by reflection you may have the bliss


s: She that a clinquant outside doth adore,


s: Till tipt with kisses, never kindle hearts.


s: That can reach heav'n with nought but pray'rs;


s: That didst forsake thy throne and sphere,


s: How often would'st thou shoot heav'ns ark,


s: The gods have kneel'd in vain t' have kist.


s: Whilst th' expert falcon swift doth climbe


s: Whilst the whole field floats in one tear,


s: Lyly, in his EUPHUES (1579, fol. 28), makes Lucilla say--


s: "No birde can looke agains the Sunne, but those that bee


s: bredde of the eagle, neyther any hawke soare so hie as the


s: "Then rouse thee, muse, each little hobby plies


s: chap. v. ed. 1658), explains the difference between the LANNER


s: TASSEL are other forms of the same word.  See Strutt's SPORTS


s: When cursed NO stain'd no maid's blisse,


s: And cherries pluck'd fresh from the lip,


s: Wine from the bunch, milk from the nipple;


s: Were squeez'd from olive-trees and bellies:


s: All-damning gold, was damn'd to th' pit;


s: Their troth seal'd with a clasp and kisse,


s: No false foul breath, their del'cat smell.


s: Whilst ravish'd with these noble dreams,


s: And why an honour'd ragged shirt, that shows,


s: Like tatter'd ensigns, all its bodie's blows?


s: It were enough to set the child on fire;


s: Dishevell'd queen[s] should strip them of their hair,


s: Nor do I know ought worth to wrap it in,


s: And then expect no end of its chast tears,


s: That first was rowl'd in down, now furs of bears.


s: But since to ladies 't hath a custome been


s: Linnen to send, that travail and lye in;


s: To the nine sempstresses, my former friends,


s: I su'd; but they had nought but shreds and ends.


s: At last, the jolli'st of the three times three


s: Rent th' apron from her smock, and gave it me;


s: 'Twas soft and gentle, subt'ly spun, no doubt;


s: Pardon my boldnese, madam; HERE'S THE CLOUT.


s: POPULAR ANTIQUITIES (edit. 1849, ii. 70), as an illustration


s: of the custom to which it refers.  No second example of such


s: an usage seems to have been known to Brand and his editors.


s: The custom to which the Poet here refers, was no doubt common


s: in his time; although the indefatigable Brand does not appear


s: to have met with any illustration of it, except in LUCASTA.


s: But since the note at p. 183 <i.e. note 72.1> was written, the


s: following passage in the old morality of THE MARRIAGE OF WIT


s: AND WISDOM (circa 1570) has come under my notice:--


s: The allusion is to the contemplated marriage of WIT to his


s: When first the heav'n her self was giv'n,


s: I burnt all ore the letters of her name.


s: You are deceiv'd; I sooner may, dull fair,


s: Seat a dark Moor in Cassiopea's<73.1> chair,


s: It is just Heaven on beauty stamps a fame,


s: And we, alas! its triumphs but proclaim.


s: What chains but are too light for me, should I


s: Say that Lucasta in strange arms could lie?


s: 'Tis the same wrong th' unworthy to inthrone,


s: As from her proper sphere t' have vertue thrown.


s: That strange force on the ignoble hath renown;


s: When a fat mist we view, we coughing run;


s: But, that once meteor drawn, all cry: undone.


s: How bright the fair Paulina<73.4> did appear,


s: For since thy birth gave thee no beauty, know,


s: is represented as a woman sitting in a chair with a branch in her


s: Randolph couples it with "Ariadne's Crowne" in the following


s: "Shine forth a constellation, full and bright,


s: Bless the poor heavens with more majestick light,


s: Who in requitall shall present you there


s: CASTARA, a fictitious appellation signifying the daughter of


s: Lord Powis.  This lady was eventually his wife.  The first


s: edition of CASTARA appeared in 1634, the second in 1635, and


s: subsequently the Emperor Caligula, from both of whom she was


s: divorced.  She inherited from her father enormous wealth.


s: Love drunk, the other day, knockt at my brest,


s: My man, my ear, told me he came t' attest,


s: And took my heart for one of's nunneries.


s: And by a friend of mine, bold faith, that burn'd,


s: He said that, by the law, the challeng'd might


s: Take the advantage both of arms and fight.


s: Two darts of equal length and points he sent,


s: Which I not weigh'd, young and indifferent,


s: So we both met in one of's mother's groves,


s: The time, at the first murm'ring of her doves.


s: For when my arm to its true distance came,


s: I nothing touch'd but a fantastick flame.


s: We whip our selves with our own twisted wo,


s: Is to laugh at the boy, and he will cry.


s: ed. 1706, art. FALSIFY), "is to make a feigned pass." Lovelace


s: here employs the word as a substantive rather awkwardly; but


s: What, so beyond all madnesse is the elf,


s: The dear sweet secrets of the gods he tells,


s: And with loath'd hate lov'd heaven he swells;


s: And swears, with this false frenzy hurl'd,


s: There's not a vertuous she in all the world.


s: Must leash'd t' himself with him a hunting go.


s: The bright pearl in his close shell of oyster;


s: Long live the brave Oliver-Brutus.<76.1>


s: For the Knights have yielded their spent-gorge;


s: For our Dragon hath vanquish'd the St. George.


s: And with spread sails play with their breath,


s: And beat'st thy gen'rous breast, that o're


s: Till thy all-bellyd foe (round elf<77.1>)


s: Where, though too neer and bold, the fire


s: Yet hadst thou fal'n like him, whose coil


s: That, killing thee, thou thine dost kill!


s: As through the cranes trunk throat doth speed,


s: And flames doth cool his monstrous sweat,


s: Whose sighs do freeze, and tears drop hail,


s: The chymist, that himself doth still,<78.1>


s: Let him but tast this limbecks<78.2> bill,


s: Whose plagues thou'lt bury in thy grave?


s: Like the Sun's son, who blush'd the flood


s: Flaggy<78.3> thy wings, and scorch'd thy thighs,


s: Thou would'st be scorch'd and drown'd again.


s: he has shown in this poem and elsewhere for figures drawn from


s: Where I will all those ravished sweets distill


s: Through Love's alembic, and with chemic skill


s: From the mix'd mass one sovereign balm derive."


s: Shirley's POEMS (Works by Dyce, vi. 407).


s: Bacon, Spenser, &c. use it; but it is now, I believe, confined


s: to Somersetshire and the bordering counties.


s: Shall sooner soften marble, and the rain,


s: That slides down gently from his flaggy wings,


s: Mongst the worlds wonders, there doth yet remain


s: One greater than the rest, that's all those o're again,


s: And her own self beside: A Lady, whose soft breast


s: Is with vast honours soul and virtues life possest.


s: Fair as original light first from the chaos shot,


s: When day in virgin-beams triumph'd, and night was not,


s: And as that breath infus'd in the new-breather good,


s: Chearful, as that aspect at this world's finishing,


s: When cherubims clapp'd wings, and th' sons of Heaven did sing;


s: Chast as th' Arabian bird, who all the ayr denyes,<79.1>


s: And ev'n in flames expires, when with her selfe she lyes.


s: Oh! she's as kind as drops of new faln April showers,


s: That on each gentle breast spring fresh perfuming flowers;


s: She's constant, gen'rous, fixt; she's calm, she is the all


s: We can of vertue, honour, faith, or glory call,


s: And she is (whom I thus transmit to endless fame)


s: Mistresse oth' world and me, and LAURA is her name.


s: L.   Sing, Laura, sing, whilst silent are the sphears,


s: And all the eyes of Heaven are turn'd to ears.


s: Unchain its feet, take arms, and follow thee.


s: BOTH.  It is the souls, souls sole offering.


s: Each heart string tremble, and each sinew shake.


s: L.   Whilst with your voyce you rarifie the air,


s: L.   Sing, and in heav'n inthrone deposed love,


s: Whilst angels dance, and fiends in order move.


s: And teach<80.1> low hell to heav'n to swell,


s: W.    Charon! thou slave! thou fooll! thou cavaleer!<81.1>


s: CHA.  A slave! a fool! what traitor's voice I hear?


s: W.    Villain, I have a pass which who disdains,


s: CHA.  Woes me, ye gentle shades! where shall I dwell?


s: He's come!  It is not safe to be in hell.


s: Thus man, his honor lost, falls on these shelves;


s: Furies and fiends are still true to themselves.


s: CHA.  You must, lost fool, come in.    W.  Oh, let me in!


s: But now I fear thy boat will sink with my ore-weighty sin.


s: Where, courteous Charon, am I now?    CHA.  Vile rant!<81.2>


s: At the gates of thy supreme Judge Rhadamant.


s: To all the ills thou wert, we canot hope to be;


s: Oh, pitty us condemned!  Oh, cease to wooe,


s: And softly, softly breath, least you infect us too.


s: a FELLOW.  From being in its primitive sense a most honourable


s: appellation, it became, during and after the civil war between


s: Charles and the Parliament, a term of equivocal import.


s: First from his den rolls forth that load


s: Heaven's blew-ey'd daughter, thine own mother!


s: And storms the rampiers<82.5> of his back;


s: Deals blows that thick themselves prevent,


s: With fresh salt foams and mists, that blast


s: With their black blood my pale inks blent,<82.7>


s: As that<82.10> the toad in's own dispite


s: The toad had like t' have burst himself:


s: One eye she hath spet out, strange smother,


s: She baths him with her sulph'rous stale;


s: Beats down his loathsome breath to hell.


s: Where Pallas she ith' midst doth praise,


s: That pretious stone, which she doth call


s: mythological tale of Arachne and Minerva, and the metamorphosis


s: of the former by the angry goddess into a spider ().


s: This large kind of ship was much used by the Greeks and Venetians


s: employs, in expressing a contest between the toad and the


s: spider, a term signifying a naval battle, or, at least,


s: a field or the country generally, or a plain.  It is a clumsy


s: to be peculiar to Lovelace.  TO PICKEAR, or PICKEER, means


s: Sage Snayl, within thine own self curl'd,


s: Now a straight line, now crook'd, now all.


s: And ere the morn cradles the moon,<83.2>


s: Thou, thine own daughter, then, and sire,


s: Now hast thou chang'd thee, saint, and made


s: Strickt and lock'd up, th'art hood all ore,


s: And 'stead of beads thou drop'st a tear,


s: refers to the gradual evanescence of the moon before the growing


s: daylight.  It is well known that the lunar orb is, at certain


s: times, visible sometime even after sunrise.


s: Then, when the Sunn the south doth winne,


s: Who keep their judgement in their sleeve,


s: women use in Spaine, Germanie, and the Low Countries, when they


s: goe abroad." Lovelace clearly adopts the word for the sake of


s: the metre; otherwise he might have chosen a better one.


s: Sir, your sad absence I complain, as earth


s: Her long-hid spring, that gave her verdures birth,


s: Shrinks in her cold and dismal widow'd bed;


s: Whilst the false sun her lover doth him move


s: What fate was mine, when in mine obscure cave


s: (Shut up almost close prisoner in a grave)


s: Your beams could reach me through this vault of night,


s: Whence me (as gen'rous Spahys) you unbound,


s: Whilst I now know my self both free and crown'd.


s: But as at Meccha's tombe, the devout blind


s: Pilgrim (great husband of his sight and mind)


s: Pays to no other object this chast prise,


s: Then with hot earth anoynts out both his eyes:


s: So having seen your dazling glories store,


s: Or, do you thus those pretious rayes withdraw


s: To whet my dull beams, keep my bold in aw?


s: Brave prince! who, eagle-ey'd of eagle kind,


s: Wert blindly damn'd to look thine own self blind!


s: But oh, return those fires, too cruel-nice!


s: For whilst you fear me cindars, see, I'm ice!


s: A nummed speaking clod and mine own show,<85.2>


s: My self congeal'd, a man cut out in snow:


s: Return those living fires.  Thou, who that vast


s: Double advantage from one-ey'd Heav'n hast,


s: Look with one sun, though 't but obliquely be,


s: And if not shine, vouchsafe to wink on me.


s: Perceive you not a gentle, gliding heat,


s: And quick'ning warmth, that makes the statua sweat;


s: As rev'rend Ducaleon's black-flung stone,


s: Whose rough outside softens to skin, anon


s: Each crusty vein with wet red is suppli'd,


s: Whilst nought of stone but in its heart doth 'bide.


s: So from the rugged north, where your soft stay


s: Hath stampt them a meridian and kind day;


s: Himself and 's manners both do pay you rent,


s: And 'bout your house (your pallace) doth resort,


s: And 'spite of fate and war creates a court.


s: So from the taught north, when you shall return,


s: To glad those looks that ever since did mourn,


s: When men uncloathed of themselves you'l see,


s: Then start new made, fit, what they ought to be;


s: Hast! hast! you, that your eyes on rare sights feed:


s: The twice-born god, still gay and ever young,


s: With ivie crown'd, first leads the glorious throng:


s: Designs for th' brighter beams of Amoret;


s: Then doth he broach his throne, and singing quaff


s: Unto her health his pipe of god-head off.


s: Who, wise, now sing thy lasting fame in wine;


s: Whilst Phoebus, not from th' east, your feast t' adorn,


s: But from th' inspir'd Canaries, rose this morn.


s: Now you are come, winds in their caverns sit,


s: And nothing breaths, but new-inlarged wit.


s: Hark!  One proclaims it piacle<85.3> to be sad,


s: And th' people call 't religion to be mad.


s: When noyse, the guard, and trumpets are oreblown,


s: The silent commons mark their princes way,


s: And with still reverence both look and pray;


s: And count the rest but pageantry before.


s: Behold! an hoast of virgins, pure as th' air


s: In her first face,<85.4> ere mists durst vayl her hair:


s: Their snowy vests, white as their whiter skin,


s: Or their far chaster whiter thoughts within:


s: Roses they breath'd and strew'd, as if the fine


s: Heaven did to earth his wreath of swets resign;


s: Next herald Fame (a purple clowd her bears),


s: In an imbroider'd coat of eyes and ears,


s: Proclaims the triumph, and these lovers glory,


s: Then in a book of steel records the story.


s: And now a youth of more than god-like form


s: All nak'd, each part betray'd unto the eye,


s: Chastly: for neither sex ow'd he or she.


s: And this was heav'nly love.  By his bright hand,


s: A boy of worse than earthly stuff did stand;


s: His bow broke, his fires out, and his wings clipt,


s: And the black slave from all his false flames stript;


s: Whose eyes were new-restor'd but to confesse


s: This day's bright blisse, and his own wretchednesse;


s: Who, swell'd with envy, bursting with disdain,


s: Did cry to cry, and weep them out again.


s: And now what heav'n must I invade, what sphere


s: Rifle of all her stars, t' inthrone her there?


s: No!  Phoebus, by thy boys<85.5> fate we beware


s: Th' unruly flames o'th' firebrand, thy carr;


s: Although, she there once plac'd, thou, Sun, shouldst see


s: Then grease thy wheels with amber in the main,


s: And Neptune, thou to thy false Thetis gallop,


s: Appollo's set within thy bed of scallop:


s: Mounted, and drawn by six caelestial minds,


s: That did not burn; for it was chast desire;


s: Whilst a new light doth gild the standers by.


s: Chafing perfumes oth' East did throng and sweat,


s: But by her breath they melting back were beat.


s: A crown of yet-nere-lighted stars she wore,


s: In her soft hand a bleeding heart she bore,


s: And round her lay of broken millions more;<85.6>


s: Then a wing'd crier thrice aloud did call:


s: By her a lady that might be call'd fair,


s: Was pris'ner led; th' unvalewed robe she wore


s: Who vainly tempt her rescue (madly bold)


s: Chained in sixteen thousand links of gold;


s: Chrysetta thus (loaden with treasures) slave


s: Did strow the pass with pearls, and her way pave.


s: But loe! the glorious cause of all this high


s: True heav'nly state, brave Philamore, draws nigh,


s: Who, not himself, more seems himself to be,


s: Fix'd and unmov'd on 's pillars he doth stay,


s: Nor hath he pow'r to breath [n]or strength to greet


s: Who now amaz'd at 's noble breast doth knock,


s: And with a kiss his gen'rous heart unlock;


s: Whilst she and the whole pomp doth enter there,


s: Whence her nor Time nor Fate shall ever tear.


s: But whether am I hurl'd? ho! back! awake


s: From thy glad trance: to thine old sorrow take!


s: Thus, after view of all the Indies store,


s: The slave returns unto his chain and oar;


s: Thus poets, who all night in blest heav'ns dwell,


s: Are call'd next morn to their true living hell;


s: Rise cloath'd with real wants, 'cause wanting you,


s: I must to these unvalued dreams confesse.


s: But all our clowds shall be oreblown, when thee


s: When thy dear presence shall our souls new-dress,


s: When we shall be orewhelm'd in joy, like they


s: That change their night for a vast half-year's day.


s: Then shall the wretched few, that do repine,


s: See and recant their blasphemies in wine;


s: Then shall they grieve, that thought I've sung too free,


s: High and aloud of thy true worth and thee,


s: That from my height so miserably did fall;


s: And crie out my invention thin and poor,


s: Who have said nought, since I could say no more.


s: daughter of Sir Thomas Hutchinson, of Owthorp, co. Notts, Knight.


s: from the notes of the laborious Oldys, will be found.  The poet


s: died in 1687, and, two years later, his miscellaneous verses were


s: properly AN ATONEMENT, was afterwards used to express WHAT


s: REQUIRED an atonement, i.e. an offence or sin.


s: certainly preferable; but the reader may judge for himself.


s: It should be borne in mind that the second part of LUCASTA


s: was not even printed during the poet's life.  If he had survived


s: to republish the first portion, and to revise the second perhaps


s: Frank, wil't live unhandsomely? trust not too far


s: Thy self to waving seas: for what thy star,


s: Look in the glassy-epithete,<86.2> and see.


s: Yet settle here your rest, and take your state,


s: And in calm halcyon's nest ev'n build your fate;


s: Prethee lye down securely, Frank, and keep


s: With as much no noyse the inconstant deep


s: As its inhabitants; nay, stedfast stand,


s: Fit for plantation here.  Dream, dream still,


s: Horrour awake your sense, and you now find


s: Your self a bubbled pastime for the wind;


s: And in loose Thetis blankets torn and tost.


s: Frank, to undo thy self why art at cost?


s: Nor be too confident, fix'd on the shore:


s: For even that too borrows from the store


s: Of her rich neighbour, since now wisest know


s: As frail, inconstant, waveing, as that blot


s: We lay upon the deep, that sometimes lies


s: Chang'd, you would think, with 's botoms properties;


s: Of giddy earth ne'er whirling leaves to reel,


s: Till all things are inverted, till they are


s: Turn'd to that antick confus'd state they were.


s: Who loves the golden mean, doth safely want


s: A cobwebb'd cot and wrongs entail'd upon't;


s: Vipers and moths, that on their feeder feed;


s: The toy that we (too true) a mistress call,


s: Whose looking-glass and feather weighs up all;


s: And cloaths which larks would play with in the sun,


s: That mock him in the night, when 's course is run.


s: That envy should not reach it with her eye,


s: Nay, with a thought come neer it.  Wouldst thou know,


s: How such a structure should be raisd, build low.


s: The blust'ring winds invisible rough stroak


s: More often shakes the stubborn'st, prop'rest oak;


s: Nor does Heav'n's lightning strike the humble vales,


s: But high-aspiring mounts batters and scales.


s: A breast of proof defies all shocks of Fate,


s: Fears in the best, hopes in worser state;


s: Heaven forbid that, as of old, time ever


s: Flourish'd in spring so contrary, now never.


s: That mighty breath, which blew foul Winter hither,


s: Can eas'ly puffe it to a fairer weather.


s: Why dost despair then, Frank?  Aeolus has


s: 'Tis a false sequel, soloecisme 'gainst those


s: Precepts by fortune giv'n us, to suppose


s: That, 'cause it is now ill, 't will ere be so;


s: With his soft harp awakes the sleeping Nine.


s: Greater in hope, howere thy fate, then<86.3> fear:


s: Draw all your sails in quickly, though no storm


s: For tell me how they differ, tell me, pray,


s: year of the Restoration he filled the office of Recorder of


s: Canterbury, and in that capacity delivered the address of the


s: city to Charles II. on his passage through the place.  This


s: speech was printed in 1660, 4to, three leaves.  The following


s: extracts from the CALENDARS OF STATE PAPERS (Domestic Series,


s: sequestration, imprisonment, and loss of office, for his loyalty.


s: "Grant to Fras. Lovelace, of the office of chief steward of the


s: so popular at that time, in order to read his fortune, I must


s: confess my ignorance of the meaning of "glassy-epithete."


s: See, for an account of the beryl, Aubrey's MISCELLANIES,


s: Behold! three sister-wonders, in whom met,


s: Distinct and chast, the splendrous<87.2> counterfeit<87.3>


s: The majesty and state of Heav'ns great Queen,


s: And when she treats the gods, her noble meen;


s: The sweet victorious beauties and desires


s: O' th' sea-born princess, empresse too of fires;


s: The sacred arts and glorious lawrels torn


s: From the fair brow o' th' goddesse father-born;


s: All these were quarter'd in each snowy coat,


s: With canton'd<87.4> honours of their own, to boot.


s: Paris, by fate new-wak'd from his dead cell,


s: He views in each the brav'ry<87.5> of all Ide;


s: Whilst one, as once three, doth his soul divide.


s: Then sighs so equally they're glorious all:


s: surviving son of Sir Julius Caesar, Knt., Master of the Rolls.


s: Mr. Robert Caesar married the poet's sister Johanna, by whom


s: he had three daughters, co-heirs--Anne, Juliana, and Johanna.


s: These are the ladies commemorated in the text.  See Lodge's


s: at one of the corners of a shield of arms.


s: before the time of Lovelace, A BEAUTIFUL OR FINE SPECTACLE,


s: or simply BEAUTY.  BRAVE in the sense of FINE (gaudy or gallant)


s: If Pliny, Lord High Treasurer of all<88.1>


s: Natures exchequer shuffled in this our ball,<88.2>


s: And cry'd she wrought with more almighty fire,


s: That judg'd the unnumber'd issue of her scrowl,


s: Infinite and various as her mother soul,


s: Why do I pause to couch the cataract,<88.3>


s: And the grosse pearls from our dull eyes abstract,


s: And minds call reach, do bow.  The deities


s: Bold Poets first but feign'd, you do and make,


s: And from your awe they our devotion take.


s: Your beauteous pallet first defin'd Love's Queen,


s: And made her in her heav'nly colours seen;


s: You strung the bow of the Bandite her son,<88.4>


s: Neptune as unknown as his fish might dwell,


s: But that you seat him in his throne of shell.


s: You fancied Rome in his fantastick hand;


s: And the pale frights, the pains, and fears of hell


s: Who cleft th' infernal dog's loath'd head in three,


s: And spun out Hydra's fifty necks? by thee


s: As prepossess'd w' enjoy th' Elizian plain,


s: Which but before was flatter'd<88.5> in our brain.


s: Who ere yet view'd airs child invisible,


s: A hollow voice, but in thy subtile skill?


s: Faint stamm'ring Eccho you so draw, that we


s: O' th' spring affords us: praesto, and away!<88.7>


s: You all the year do chain her and her fruits,


s: Roots to their beds, and flowers to their roots.


s: Have not mine eyes feasted i' th' frozen Zone


s: Of apples, unknown sweets, that seem'd to me


s: You, sir, alone, fame, and all-conqu'ring rime,


s: File<88.10> the set teeth of all-devouring time.


s: When beauty once thy vertuous paint hath on,


s: Her beams nere shed or change like th' hair of day,<88.11>


s: Nay, from her ashes her fair virgin fire


s: Ascends, that doth new massacres conspire,


s: Whilst we wipe off the num'rous score of years,


s: And do behold our grandsire[s] as our peers;


s: With the first father of our house compare


s: We do the features of our new-born heir:


s: But comes to you to have her self begot?


s: As, when first man was kneaded, from his side


s: Is born to's hand a ready-made-up bride.


s: And for more wives remove the obstructed way:


s: So by your art you spring up in two noons


s: What could not else be form'd by fifteen suns;


s: Thy skill doth an'mate the prolifick flood,


s: Where then, when all the world pays its respect,


s: Had drawn the scourges of our God and man,


s: To crown the heav'nly piece with a bright end;


s: Whilst he, who in<88.12> seven languages gave law,


s: And always, like the Sun, his subjects saw,


s: O Charls!<88.13> a nobler monument than that,


s: When to our huffling Henry<88.14> there complain'd


s: A grieved earl, that thought his honor stain'd:


s: Away (frown'd he), for your own safeties, hast!


s: In one cheap hour ten coronets I'l cast;


s: But Holbeen's noble and prodigious worth


s: Onely the pangs of an whole age brings forth.<88.15>


s: It might new raise the ruines thou hast made.


s: O sacred Peincture! that dost fairly draw,


s: What but in mists deep inward Poets saw;


s: 'Twixt thee and an Intelligence no odds,<88.16>


s: Thou, that in frames eternity dost bind,


s: To thee is ope the Juncto o' th' abysse,


s: Whilest their cabal thou to our sense dost show,


s: And in thy square paint'st what they threat below.


s: Now, my best Lilly, let's walk hand in hand,


s: And smile at this un-understanding land;


s: Let them their own dull counterfeits adore,


s: Their rainbow-cloaths admire, and no more.


s: Within one shade of thine more substance is,


s: Than all their varnish'd idol-mistresses:


s: What due renown to thy fair art they owe


s: Then, if they will not gently apprehend,


s: Let one great blot give to their fame an end;


s: Whilst no poetick flower their herse doth dresse,


s: NATURAL HISTORY which, through Holland's translation,


s: vocabulary.  "To couch a cataract" (i.e. in the eye) is to


s: a spring landscape, is meant.  The poet feigns the copy of Nature


s: before the usual time.  The canvass is removed, and the illusion


s: sense.  The meaning is outward form, nature, or character.


s: The word used to be by no means uncommon; but it is now,


s: is not mentioned.--See Walpole's ANECDOTES OF PAINTING, ed. 1862,


s: When you two your contracted souls did move


s: Twist their soft beams like these in their chast air?


s: As from bright numberlesse imbracing rayes


s: And change their fertile eyes with the new morn,


s: A beauteous offspring is shot forth, not born.


s: Sent on the wings of Faith? and thou, O Night,<89.4>


s: Have you not mark'd their coelestial play,


s: The fane with pros'lyte lads and lasses fill'd,


s: When, like these, you shall stamp by sympathies


s: Thousands of new-born-loves with your chaste eyes.


s: Auchers.  The Kentish families, about this time, intermarried


s: with each other to a very large extent, partly to indemnify


s: themselves from the consequences of gravelkind tenure (though


s: many had procured parliamentary relief); and the Lovelaces,


s: the Stanleys, the Hammonds, the Sandyses, were all more or less


s: bound together by the ties of kindred.  See the tree prefixed


s: by Sir Egerton Brydges to his edition of HAMMOND'S POEMS, 1816,


s: and the Introduction to STANLEY'S POEMS, 1814.  Sir William


s: Lovelace, the poet's grandfather, married Elizabeth, daughter


s: of Edward Aucher, Esq., of Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury, while


s: Sir William Hammond, of St. Alban's Court, married, as his second


s: Bishopsbourne, by whom he had, among other children, Mary,


s: Sir E. Brydges, 1816, p. 54, where there is a similar poem


s: of Stanley is in the reprint of his Poems and Translations, 1814,


s: the sun; or, in other words, that the sun was 5000 years old.


s: Twas a blith prince<90.1> exchang'd five hundred crowns


s: For a fair turnip.  Dig, dig on, O clowns


s: But how this comes about, Fates, can you tell,


s: This more then Maid of Meurs, this miracle?


s: Let me not live, if I think not St. Mark


s: Has all the oar, as well as beasts, in's ark!


s: And with a bankrupt muse to merchandise;


s: His treasures beams, sure, have put out his eyes.<90.2>


s: His conquest at Lepanto<90.3> I'l let pass,


s: When the sick sea with turbants night-cap'd was;


s: And now at Candie his full courage shown,