In the latter group of MSS. this poem is followed immediately by another of the same kind, which is found also in _H40_, _RP31_, and _O'F_, as well as several more miscellaneous MSS. I print from _TCC_: A PARADOX. Whosoe termes Love a fire, may like a poet Faine what he will, for certaine cannot showe it. For Fire nere burnes, but when the fuell's neare But Love doth at most distance most appeare. Yet out of fire water did never goe, But teares from Love abundantly doe flowe. Fire still mounts upward; but Love oft descendeth. Fire leaves the midst: Love to the Center tendeth. Fire dryes and hardens: Love doth mollifie. Fire doth consume, but Love doth fructifie. The powerful Queene of Love (faire Venus) came Descended from the Sea, not from the flame, Whence passions ebbe and flowe, and from the braine Run to the hart like streames, and back againe. Yea Love oft fills mens breasts with melting snow Drowning their Love-sick minds in flouds of woe. What is Love, water then? it may be soe; But hee saith trueth, that saith hee doth not knowe. FINIS. PAGE =71=. FAREWELL TO LOVE. l. 12. _His highnesse &c._ 'Presumably his highness was made of gilt gingerbread.' Chambers. See Jonson, _Bartholomew Fair_, III. i. ll. 28-30. As these lines stand in the old editions they are unintelligible: Because that other curse of being short, And only for a minute made to be Eager, desires to raise posterity. Grosart prints: Because that other curse of being short And--only-for-a-minute-made-to-be-- Eager desires to raise posterity. This and the note which he appends I find more incomprehensible than the old text. This is his note: 'The whole sense then is: Unless Nature decreed this in order that man should despise it, (just) as she made it short, that man might for that reason also despise a sport that was only for a minute made to be eager desires to raise posterity.' Surely this is Abracadabra!