Our bodies why doe wee forbeare? 50 They are ours, though they are not wee, Wee are The intelligences, they the spheare. We owe them thankes, because they thus, Did us, to us, at first convay, Yeelded their forces, sense, to us, 55 Nor are drosse to us, but allay. On man heavens influence workes not so, But that it first imprints the ayre, Soe soule into the soule may flow, Though it to body first repaire. 60 As our blood labours to beget Spirits, as like soules as it can, Because such fingers need to knit That subtile knot, which makes us man: So must pure lovers soules descend 65 T'affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies. To'our bodies turne wee then, that so Weake men on love reveal'd may looke; 70 Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke. And if some lover, such as wee, Have heard this dialogue of one, Let him still marke us, he shall see 75 Small change, when we'are to bodies gone. [The Extasie. _1633-69:_ _do. or_ Extasie. _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_] [3 reclining _1633-54:_ declining _1669_] [4 best. _Ed:_ best; _1633-54_ Sate we on one anothers breasts. _1669_] [6 With _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ By _1635-69_, _Chambers_] [8 string; _Ed:_ string, _1633-69_] [9 to'entergraft _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ to engraft _1635-69_, _A25_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Chambers_] [11 in _1633-69_, _P:_ on _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TC_] [15 their _1633 and most MSS.:_ our _1635-69_, _O'F_, _P_] [18 lay; _Ed:_ lay, _1633-69_] [25 knew _1635-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _P_, _TC:_ knowes _1633_, _D_, _Lec_] [29 doth] do _1669_] [31 sexe, _1669:_ sexe _1633-54_] [42 Interinanimates _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _TC:_ Interanimates _1633-69_, _D_, _Lec_] [44 loneliness] loveliness _1669_] [46 made, _1633-39:_ made: _1650-69_] [47 Atomies _1633-54:_ Atomes _1669_] [48 are soules, _1633_, _1669:_ are soule, _1635-54_] [51 though they are not _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ though not _1633-69_] [52 spheare. _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ spheares. _1633-69_] [55 forces, sense, _A18_, _A25_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ senses force _1633-69_]