My constancie I to the planets give; 10 My truth to them, who at the Court doe live; Mine ingenuity and opennesse, To Jesuites; to Buffones my pensivenesse; My silence to'any, who abroad hath beene; My mony to a Capuchin. 15 Thou Love taught'st me, by appointing mee To love there, where no love receiv'd can be, Onely to give to such as have an incapacitie. My faith I give to Roman Catholiques; All my good works unto the Schismaticks 20 Of Amsterdam; my best civility And Courtship, to an Universitie; My modesty I give to souldiers bare; My patience let gamesters share. Thou Love taughtst mee, by making mee 25 Love her that holds my love disparity, Onely to give to those that count my gifts indignity. I give my reputation to those Which were my friends; Mine industrie to foes; To Schoolemen I bequeath my doubtfulnesse; 30 My sicknesse to Physitians, or excesse; To Nature, all that I in Ryme have writ; And to my company my wit. Thou Love, by making mee adore Her, who begot this love in mee before, 35 Taughtst me to make, as though I gave, when I did but restore. To him for whom the passing bell next tolls, I give my physick bookes; my writen rowles Of Morall counsels, I to Bedlam give; My brazen medals, unto them which live 40 In want of bread; To them which passe among All forrainers, mine English tongue. Thou, Love, by making mee love one Who thinkes her friendship a fit portion For yonger lovers, dost my gifts thus disproportion. 45 Therefore I'll give no more; But I'll undoe The world by dying; because love dies too. Then all your beauties will bee no more worth Then gold in Mines, where none doth draw it forth; And all your graces no more use shall have 50 Then a Sun dyall in a grave. Thou Love taughtst mee, by making mee Love her, who doth neglect both mee and thee, To'invent, and practise this one way, to'annihilate all three. [The Will. _1633-69:_ _do. or_ A Will. _A25_, _B_, _C_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec_, _M_, _O'F_, _P:_ Loves Will. _L74:_ Loves Legacies. _A18_, _N_, _TCC_ (_torn out of TCD_), _S:_ Testamentum. _S96:_ His Last Will and Testament. _JC_] [2 Here I _1633-54:_ I here _1669_, _Chambers_] [6 teares. _Ed:_ teares; _1633-69_] [8 serve her] love her _1669_] [10 give; _Ed:_ give, _1633-69_] [10-27 _These stanzas printed without a break, 1669_] [14 hath] have _1669_] [18 an incapacitie.] no good Capacity. _1669_]