Be pleasd that I may love, it shall suffise. [Footnote 255: Qu: Grains? G.] TO THE Q:[UEENE.] What Musicke shall we make to you? To whome the strings of all men's harts Make musicke of ten thousand parts: In tune and measure true, With straines[256] and changes new. How shall wee fraime a harmony Worthie your eares, whose princely[257] hands Keepe harmony in sundry lands: Whose people divers be, In station and degree? Heauen's tunes may onely please, and not such aires as theise. For you which downe from heauen are sent Such peace vpon the earth to bring, Haue h[e]ard y^{e} quire of Angells sing: and all the sphæres consent, like a sweete instrument. How then should theise harsh tunes you[258] heare Created of y^{e} trubled ayer, breed but distast--when you repaire-- to your celestiall eare? So that this center here for you no musicke fynds, but harmony of mynds. [Footnote 256: Miswritten 'strainest' in MS. G.] [Footnote 257: 'heavenly' written and erased. G.] [Footnote 258: Spelled here and elsewhere 'y^{u}.' It may be noted here, that throughout these Poems, as with the Psalms, my rule has been to extend mere contraction-forms. The few left have a place for philological ends. A kind of flourish at the end of a number of words, I was disposed to regard as intended to represent 's,' but instances occur in the MS. to show that it is a mere ornamental addition: and so I leave it unrepresented. G.] [TO FAIRE LADYES.] Ladyes of Founthill,[259] I am come to seeke My hart amongst you, which I late did leese; but many harts may be perhaps alike: Therefore of mine, the proper markes, are theise. It is not hard, though true as steele it be, And like y^{e} diomond, cleare from any spot; Transmixt with many darts you shall it se[e], but all by vertue, not by Cupid, shot; It hath no wings, because it needeth none, Being now arived and settled where it would; Wingèd desires and hopes from it gon are, but it is full of joyes as it can hold. Faine would I find it where it doth remaine, but would not haue it though I might againe. [Footnote 259: Founthill or Fonthill in Wilts. See Prefatory Note to these hitherto unpublished MSS. G.] UPON A PAIRE OF GARTERS.