Yet know I not, which flower I wish; a sixe, or foure; For should my true-Love lesse then woman bee, She were scarce any thing; and then, should she Be more then woman, shee would get above 15 All thought of sexe, and thinke to move My heart to study her, and not to love; Both these were monsters; Since there must reside Falshood in woman, I could more abide, She were by art, then Nature falsify'd. 20 Live Primrose then, and thrive With thy true number five; And women, whom this flower doth represent, With this mysterious number be content; Ten is the farthest number; if halfe ten 25 Belonge unto each woman, then Each woman may take halfe us men; Or if this will not serve their turne, Since all Numbers are odde, or even, and they fall First into this, five, women may take us all. 30 [The Primrose. _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ The Primrose, being at _&c._ _1635-69_] [16 sexe, _1633:_ sexe; _1635-69_] [17 and not] and _om. 1635-39, A18, N, S, TC_] [23 women] woman _Chambers_] [25 number; _Ed:_ number, _1633-69_] [26 Belonge _all the MSS.:_ Belongs _1633-69_. _See note_] [27 men; _Ed:_ men, _1633-39:_ men: _1650-69_] [28 their _1633-39:_ the _1650-69_] [29 and _1633:_ since _1635-69_] [30 this, _Ed:_ this _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ _om. 1635-69, O'F, Chambers_] _The Relique._ When my grave is broke up againe Some second ghest to entertaine, (For graves have learn'd that woman-head To be to more then one a Bed) And he that digs it, spies 5 A bracelet of bright haire about the bone, Will he not let'us alone, And thinke that there a loving couple lies, Who thought that this device might be some way To make their soules, at the last busie day, 10 Meet at this grave, and make a little stay? If this fall in a time, or land, Where mis-devotion doth command, Then, he that digges us up, will bring Us, to the Bishop, and the King, 15 To make us Reliques; then Thou shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I A something else thereby; All women shall adore us, and some men; And since at such time, miracles are sought, 20 I would have that age by this paper taught What miracles wee harmelesse lovers wrought.