This song, which is one of the obviously authentic lyrics which is not included in the _A18_, _N_, _TC_ collection, would seem to have undergone some revision after its first issue. The version given in _A25_, from which _Cy_ is copied, would seem to be the original, at least the readings of ll. 25-6 and ll. 29-30 do not look like corruptions. The reading 'beget' at l. 25 gives a better rhyme to 'yet' than 'admit'. In l. 29 _A25_ has obviously interchanged 'thine' and 'mine'. The slightly different version of _JC_ gives the correct order. The generally careful _D_, _H49_, _Lec_ group has an unusually faulty text of this poem. Among other mistakes it reads (with _S96_) 'Thee' for 'them' in l. 32. 'Lovers Infiniteness' is a strange title. It is not found in any of the MSS., and possibly should be 'Loves Infiniteness'. Yet the 'Lovers' suits the closing thought: so we shall Be one, and one anothers All. For a poem in obvious imitation of this, see _Appendix C_, p. 439. ll. 1-11. The rhetoric and rhythm of Donne's elaborate stanzas depends a good deal on their right punctuation. Mine is an attempt to correct that of _1633_ without modernizing. The full stop after 'fall' is obviously an error, and so is, I think, the comma after 'spent'. The first six lines state in a rapid succession of clauses all that the poet has done to gain his lady's love. A new thought begins with 'Yet no more', &c. l. 9. _generall_ is the reading of two MSS. which are practically one. I have recorded it because (1) ll. 29-30 (see textual note) would seem to suggest that their version of the poem is an early one (revised by Donne), and this may be an early reading; (2) because in l. 20 this epithet is used as though repeated, 'thy gift being generall.' It would be not unlike Donne to quibble with the word, making it mean first a gift made generally to all, and secondly a gift general in its content, not limited or defined in any way. The whole poem is a piece of legal quibbling not unlike Shakespeare's 87th Sonnet: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know'st thy estimate: The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing; My bonds in thee are all determinate, &c. PAGE =18=. SONG. _Sweetest love, &c._ Of the music to this and 'Send home my long stray'd eyes' I can discover no trace. _The Baite_ was doubtless sung to the same air as Marlowe's 'Come live with me'. See II. p. 57. ll. 6-8. I have retained the text of _1633_, which has the support of all the MSS. That of _1635-54_ is an attempt to accommodate the lines, by a little padding, to the rhythm of the corresponding lines in the other stanzas. PAGE =20=. THE LEGACIE. ll. 9-16. I HEARD ME SAY, _&c._ The construction of this verse has proved rather a difficulty to editors. I give it as printed by Chambers and by the Grolier Club editor. Chambers's modernized version runs: