[9 victories! _1650-69:_ victories; _1633-39_] [10 your] the _1669_ conquest] conquests _JC_] [13 and Vandall _1633-54_, _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ or Vandall _1669_, _Chambers_] [15 arts] acts _1669_, _JC_] [20 professe; _Ed:_ professe, _1633-69_] [24 In that _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ Naked _1635-69_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_] _The Dissolution._ Shee'is dead; And all which die To their first Elements resolve; And wee were mutuall Elements to us, And made of one another. My body then doth hers involve, 5 And those things whereof I consist, hereby In me abundant grow, and burdenous, And nourish not, but smother. My fire of Passion, sighes of ayre, Water of teares, and earthly sad despaire, 10 Which my materialls bee, But neere worne out by loves securitie, Shee, to my losse, doth by her death repaire, And I might live long wretched so But that my fire doth with my fuell grow. 15 Now as those Active Kings Whose foraine conquest treasure brings, Receive more, and spend more, and soonest breake: This (which I am amaz'd that I can speake) This death, hath with my store 20 My use encreas'd. And so my soule more earnestly releas'd, Will outstrip hers; As bullets flowen before A latter bullet may o'rtake, the pouder being more. [The Dissolution. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_] [10 earthly _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _TC:_ earthy _1635-69_] [12 neere _1635-69_ (But ... securitie _bracketed 1669_): ne'r _1633_] [24 latter] later _1669_] _A Ieat Ring Sent._ Thou art not so black, as my heart, Nor halfe so brittle, as her heart, thou art; What would'st thou say? shall both our properties by thee bee spoke, Nothing more endlesse, nothing sooner broke? Marriage rings are not of this stuffe; 5 Oh, why should ought lesse precious, or lesse tough Figure our loves? Except in thy name thou have bid it say, I'am cheap, and nought but fashion, fling me'away. Yet stay with mee since thou art come, Circle this fingers top, which did'st her thombe. 10 Be justly proud, and gladly safe, that thou dost dwell with me, She that, Oh, broke her faith, would soon breake thee. [A Ieat Ring sent. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ To a Jeat Ring sent to me. _W_ (_among the_ Epigrams)] [7 loves] love _O'F_ say, _Ed:_ say _1633-69_] _Negative love._