with _all MSS., Chambers and Grosart:_ which (_probably by confusion of_ w^{ch} _and_ w^{th}) _1633-69_ Realmes] names _1669_] [7 where] bear _1669_] [14 constancie: _1635-69:_ constancie. _1633_] [24 then _1633_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _S_, _S96_, _W:_ there _1635-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _Cy_, _JC_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _TC_, _Chambers_] [26 upmost _1633 and most MSS:_ utmost _1635-69_, _O'F_, _Chambers_ brow; _Ed:_ brow: _1633-39:_ brow. _1650-69_] [28 banke _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _S_, _TC_, _W:_ banks _1633-69_, _Lec_, _O'F_] [33 the _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ her _1635-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_ who _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _JC_, _H49_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ which _1635-69_, _O'F_] [37 Oh,] Ah, _1669_] [39 thee,'] _om. 1669_] [40 eye. _Ed:_ eye; _1633-54:_ eye: _1669:_ eye, _Chambers_] [41 Though ... love; _1633:_ Though ... breed ... love: _1635-39:_ Though ... breed ... love _1650-69_ (Through ... _1669_)] [42 fall. _1633-35:_ fall _1639-69_] [43 outgrow] o'ergrow _Cy_, _P_] ELEGIE VII. Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistrie, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtile: Foole, thou didst not understand The mystique language of the eye nor hand: Nor couldst thou judge the difference of the aire 5 Of sighes, and say, this lies, this sounds despaire: Nor by the'eyes water call a maladie Desperately hot, or changing feaverously. I had not taught thee then, the Alphabet Of flowers, how they devisefully being set 10 And bound up, might with speechlesse secrecie Deliver arrands mutely, and mutually. Remember since all thy words us'd to bee To every suitor; _I_, _if my friends agree_; Since, household charmes, thy husbands name to teach, 15 Were all the love trickes, that thy wit could reach; And since, an houres discourse could scarce have made One answer in thee, and that ill arraid In broken proverbs, and torne sentences. Thou art not by so many duties his, 20 That from the worlds Common having sever'd thee, Inlaid thee, neither to be seene, nor see, As mine: who have with amorous delicacies Refin'd thee'into a blis-full Paradise. Thy graces and good words my creatures bee; 25 I planted knowledge and lifes tree in thee, Which Oh, shall strangers taste? Must I alas Frame and enamell Plate, and drinke in Glasse? Chafe waxe for others seales? breake a colts force And leave him then, beeing made a ready horse? 30 [Elegie VII. _1635-69:_ Elegie VIII. _1633:_ Elegye. (_numbered variously_) _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _M_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W_] [2 Oh, ... prove] Oh, how ... prove _1669_] [6 despaire: _1635-69:_ despaire. _1633_]