The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2): Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous ManuscriptsDonne, John
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The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2): Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts
Donne, John
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
[105 Where's _&c._ _Ed:_ Where's th'old landlords troops,
and almes, great hals? _1633_, _Lec_, _N_, _TCD_ (_but_ hals
_MSS._): Where the old landlords troops, and almes? In hals
_1635-69_, _L74_, _O'F:_ Where the old landlords troopes and
almes? In great halls _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_,
_HN_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _W_ (_but the punctuation is very
irregular, and some have_ 's _after_ Where). _See note_]
[107 Equally I hate;] Equallie hate, _Q_
hate; _Ed:_ hate, _1633:_ hate. _1635-69_
meanes bless; _1633_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _H51_, _JC_,
_L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _TCD_, _W:_ Meane's blest.
_1635-69_, _Cy_, _S_, _S96_ (_altered to_ is blest). _See
note_]
[111 in wardrops; _1633:_ wardrobes. _1635-69_]
[112 statute lawes. _1633-54 and all MSS.:_ statutes jawes.
_1669_, _Chambers_]
_Satyre III._
Kinde pitty chokes my spleene; brave scorn forbids
Those teares to issue which swell my eye-lids;
I must not laugh, nor weepe sinnes, and be wise,
Can railing then cure these worne maladies?
Is not our Mistresse faire Religion, 5
As worthy of all our Soules devotion,
As vertue was to the first blinded age?
Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage
Lusts, as earths honour was to them? Alas,
As wee do them in meanes, shall they surpasse 10
Us in the end, and shall thy fathers spirit
Meete blinde Philosophers in heaven, whose merit
Of strict life may be imputed faith, and heare
Thee, whom hee taught so easie wayes and neare
To follow, damn'd? O if thou dar'st, feare this; 15
This feare great courage, and high valour is.
Dar'st thou ayd mutinous Dutch, and dar'st thou lay
Thee in ships woodden Sepulchers, a prey
To leaders rage, to stormes, to shot, to dearth?
Dar'st thou dive seas, and dungeons of the earth? 20
Hast thou couragious fire to thaw the ice
Of frozen North discoueries? and thrise
Colder then Salamanders, like divine
Children in th'oven, fires of Spaine, and the line,
Whose countries limbecks to our bodies bee, 25
Canst thou for gaine beare? and must every hee
Which cryes not, Goddesse, to thy Mistresse, draw,
Or eate thy poysonous words? courage of straw!
O desperate coward, wilt thou seeme bold, and
To thy foes and his (who made thee to stand 30
Sentinell in his worlds garrison) thus yeeld,
And for forbidden warres, leave th'appointed field?
Know thy foes: The foule Devill (whom thou
Strivest to please,) for hate, not love, would allow
Thee faine, his whole Realme to be quit; and as 35
The worlds all parts wither away and passe,
So the worlds selfe, thy other lov'd foe, is
In her decrepit wayne, and thou loving this,
Dost love a withered and worne strumpet; last,
Flesh (it selfes death) and joyes which flesh can taste, 40
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