The Exequies 139 The Silkworm 140 A Lady Weeping (_Montalvan_) 140 Ambition 141 Song: 'When, dearest beauty, thou shall pay' 141 The Revenge 142 Song: 'I will not trust thy tempting graces' 142 Song: 'No, I will sooner trust the wind' 143 To a Blind Man in Love (_Marino_) 143 Answer 143 Song: 'I prithee let my heart alone' 144 The Loss 144 The Self-Cruel 145 Song (_by M. W. M._): 'Wert thou yet fairer than thou art' 145 Answer 146 The Relapse 146 To the Countess of S. with the Holy Court 147 Song (_De Voiture_): 'I languish in a silent flame' 147 Drawn for Valentine by the L. D. S. 148 The Modest Wish (_Barclay_) 148 E Catalectis Veterum Poetarum 149 On the Edition of Mr. Fletcher's Works 149 To Mr. W. Hammond 150 On Mr. Shirley's Poems 151 On Mr. Sherburn's Translation of Seneca's _Medea_, and Vindication of the Author 152 On Mr. Hall's Essays 153 On Sir John Suckling his Picture and Poems 154 The Union (_by Mr. William Fairfax_) 154 The Answer 154 Pythagoras his Moral Rules 155 POEMS APPEARING ONLY IN THE EDITION OF 1656 159 'On this swelling bank, once proud' 159 'Dear, fold me once more in thine arms!' 160 'The lazy hours move slow' 160 POEMS NOT PRINTED AFTER 1647 _Despair._ No, no, poor blasted Hope! Since I (with thee) have lost the scope Of all my joys, I will no more Vainly implore The unrelenting Destinies: He that can equally sustain The strong assaults of joy or pain, May safely laugh at their decrees. Despair, to thee I bow, Whose constancy disdains t' allow 10 Those childish passions that destroy Our fickle joy; How cruel Fates so e'er appear, Their harmless anger I despise, And fix'd, can neither fall nor rise, Thrown below hope, but rais'd 'bove fear.