[59 Soe _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _H40_, _JC_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ For _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_] [64 makes] make _1635-39_] [72 his] the _1669_] [76 gone. _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _S_, _TC:_ growne. _1635-69_, _P_, _S96_] _Loves Deitie._ I long to talke with some old lovers ghost, Who dyed before the god of Love was borne: I cannot thinke that hee, who then lov'd most, Sunke so low, as to love one which did scorne. But since this god produc'd a destinie, 5 And that vice-nature, custome, lets it be; I must love her, that loves not mee. Sure, they which made him god, meant not so much, Nor he, in his young godhead practis'd it; But when an even flame two hearts did touch, 10 His office was indulgently to fit Actives to passives. Correspondencie Only his subject was; It cannot bee Love, till I love her, that loves mee. But every moderne god will now extend 15 His vast prerogative, as far as Jove. To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlewe of the God of Love. Oh were wee wak'ned by this Tyrannie To ungod this child againe, it could not bee 20 I should love her, who loves not mee. Rebell and Atheist too, why murmure I, As though I felt the worst that love could doe? Love might make me leave loving, or might trie A deeper plague, to make her love mee too, 25 Which, since she loves before, I'am loth to see; Falshood is worse then hate; and that must bee, If shee whom I love, should love mee. [Loves Deitie. _1633-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ Elegye. _P_] [8 much, _1639-69:_ much: _1633:_ much? _1635_] [9 it; _Ed:_ it. _1633-69_] [13 subject] _Subject 1669_] [14 Love, ... mee. _1633_, _1669_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_ (who), _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _S_ (lov'd), _TCD:_ Love, if I love, who loves not me. _1635-54_, _O'F_] [19 Oh ... wak'ned] Were we not weak'ned _1669_] [21 That I should love, who loves not me. _A18_, _A25_, _C_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ _O'F reads as these but alters to as in printed edd._] [24 might make _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ may make _1633-69_, _Lec_] [26 Which,] Which _1633_] _Loves diet._ To what a combersome unwieldinesse And burdenous corpulence my love had growne, But that I did, to make it lesse, And keepe it in proportion, Give it a diet, made it feed upon 5 That which love worst endures, _discretion_.