Thus vent thy thoughts; abroad I'll studie thee, 55 As he removes farre off, that great heights takes; How great love is, presence best tryall makes, But absence tryes how long this love will bee; To take a latitude Sun, or starres, are fitliest view'd 60 At their brightest, but to conclude Of longitudes, what other way have wee, But to marke when, and where the darke eclipses bee? [A Valediction: of _&c._ _Ed:_ A Valediction of the Booke _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ Valediction of the booke. _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ Valediction 3: Of the Booke _O'F:_ The Booke _Cy_, _P:_ Valediction to his booke. _1633-69_, _S:_ A Valediction of a booke left in a windowe. _JC_] [18 Records, _1633-69:_ records, _Grolier_] [20 tome _1633-35:_ to me _1639-54:_ Tomb. _1669_, _A18_, _Cy_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_] [21 Idiome, _Ed:_ Idiome; _1633-69_] [22 instruments: _Ed:_ instruments, _1633-69_. _See note_] [25 and Goths inundate us, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _TC:_ and the Goths invade us, _1633-54_, _S:_ and Goths invade us, _1669_, _H40_, _JC_ (or), _O'F_, _P_] [26 were safe; _1633:_ _rest omit semicolon_. Universe _1633-39:_ Universe, _1650-69_] [30 abstract] abstracted _1669_] [32 Or, ... amuze _Ed:_ Or ... amuze, _1633-69_] [33 infirmitie,] infirmities, _1669_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_] [38 titles] titles, _1663_] [39 these states] those rites _A18_, _N_, _TC_] [40 womankinde, _Ed:_ womankinde. _1633-54:_ womankinde: _1669_] [43 relies, _Ed:_ relies _1633:_ relies; _1635-69_] [44 give,] give; _1635-69_] [46 Statesmen] Tradesmen _Cy_, _P_] [47 grounds: _Ed:_ grounds, _1633-69_] [49 'tis, one] 'tis on _1669_] [53 their nothing _1635-54_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_ (nothings), _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TC_ (_but the MSS. waver between_ their _and_ there): there something _1633_, _1669_, _P_] [55 vent _1633_, _1669:_ went _1635-54_ thoughts; abroad] thoughts abroad: _1669_] [56 great heights] shadows _O'F_] [63 _1669 omits_ darke] _Communitie._ Good wee must love, and must hate ill, For ill is ill, and good good still, But there are things indifferent, Which wee may neither hate, nor love, But one, and then another prove, As wee shall finde our fancy bent. 5 If then at first wise Nature had Made women either good or bad, Then some wee might hate, and some chuse, But since shee did them so create, 10 That we may neither love, nor hate, Onely this rests, All, all may use.