Then _fishes_ leave in streames, or _Birds_ in aire. And betweene us all sweetnesse may be had; All, all that _Nature_ yields, or _Art_ can adde. My two lips, eyes, thighs, differ from thy two, 45 But so, as thine from one another doe; And, oh, no more; the likenesse being such, Why should they not alike in all parts touch? Hand to strange hand, lippe to lippe none denies; Why should they brest to brest, or thighs to thighs? 50 Likenesse begets such strange selfe flatterie, That touching my selfe, all seemes done to thee. My selfe I embrace, and mine owne hands I kisse, And amorously thanke my selfe for this. Me, in my glasse, I call thee; But alas, 55 When I would kisse, teares dimme mine _eyes_, and _glasse_. O cure this loving madnesse, and restore Me to mee; thee, my _halfe_, my _all_, my _more_. So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, And their white, whitenesse of the _Galaxy_, 60 So may thy mighty, amazing beauty move _Envy_'in all _women_, and in all _men_, _love_, And so be _change_, and _sicknesse_, farre from thee, As thou by comming neere, keep'st them from me. [Heroicall Epistle.] _In 1633_ Sapho to Philaenis _follows Basse's_ Epitaph upon Shakespeare, _and precedes_ The Annuntiation and Passion. _In 1635 it was placed with some other miscellaneous and dubious poems among the_ Letters to severall Personages, _where it has appeared in all subsequent editions. I have transferred it to the neighbourhood of the_ Elegies _and given it the title which seems to describe exactly the genre to which it belongs. In JC it is entitled_ Elegie 18_th._ _The other MSS. are A18, A25, O'F, N, P, TCC, TCD. In A25, JC, and P, ll. 31-54 are omitted_] [2 have? _1650-69:_ have, _1633-39_] [3 workes, _1633-39:_ worke, _1650-69_, _O'F_] [8 maker, _1635-69:_ maker; _1633_] [17 thereby; And _1635-69:_ thereby. And _1633_, _some copies_] [22 As _Down_, _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ As dowves _P:_ As downs _O'F_. _See note_ _Cedars_,] as Cedars, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_] [26 maist be ever. _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _N_, _TC:_ maist thou be ever. _1635-69_, _O'F:_ shalt be for ever. _P:_ mayst thou be for ever. _JC_] [33 thorny hairy _1633-69:_ thorney-hairy _TCD:_ thorny, hairy _modern edd._] [40 are _Ed:_ are, _1633-69_] [58 me to mee; thee, _1635-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _JC_, _N_, _P_, _TC_ (_generally_ mee, _in MSS.:_) me to mee; shee, _1633:_ me to thee, thee _Chambers_ _halfe_,] harte _A25_, _JC_, _P_] [59-60 So may thy cheekes outweare all scarlet dye May blisse and thee be one eternallye _P:_ _om. JC_ ] [61 mighty, amazing _Ed:_ mighty amazing _1633-69:_ almighty amazing _P_] EPITHALAMIONS, _OR_ MARRIAGE SONGS.