Here with a cockatrice dead-killing eye He rouseth up himself, and makes a pause. Shakespeare, _Lucrece_, 540-1. The eye of the man who comes to kill a cockatrice stares with terror lest he be stricken himself. If 'glazed' meant 'covered with a film', an adverbial complement would be needed: For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears. Shakespeare, _Rich. II_, II. ii. 16. ll. 9, 15. _have ... take._ I have noted the subjunctive forms found in certain MSS., because this is undoubtedly Donne's usual construction. In a full analysis that I have made of Donne's syntax in the poems I have found over ninety examples of the subjunctive against seven of the indicative in concessive adverbial clauses. In these ninety are many where the concession is an admitted fact, e.g. Though her eyes be small, her mouth is great. _Elegie II_, 3 ff. Though poetry indeed be such a sin. _Satire II_, 5. Of the seven, two are these doubtful examples here noted; one, where the subjunctive would be more appropriate, is due to the rhyme. ll. 10-11. _Thy beauties beautie, and food of our love, Hope of his goods._ Grosart is puzzled by this phrase and explains 'beauties beautie' as 'the beauty of thy various beauties' (face, arms, shape, &c.). I fear that Donne means that the beauty which he most loves in his mistress is her hope or prospect of obtaining her father's goods. The whole poem is in a vein of extravagant and cynical wit. It must not be taken too seriously. l. 22. _palenesse, blushing, sighs, and sweats._ All the MSS. read 'blushings', which is very probably correct, but I have left the two singulars to balance the two plurals. But the use of abstract nouns as common is a feature of Donne's syntax: 'We would not dwell upon increpations, and chidings, and bitternesses; we would pierce but so deepe as might make you search your wounds, when you come home to your Chamber, to bring you to a tendernesse there, not to a palenesse or blushing here.' _Sermons_ 80. 61. 611. l. 29. _ingled_: i.e. fondled, caressed. O.E.D. ll. 33-4. _He that to barre the first gate, doth as wide As the great Rhodian Colossus stride._ Porters seem to have been chosen for their size. Compare: 'Those big fellows that stand like Gyants (at Lords Gates) having bellies bumbasted with ale in Lambswool and with Sacks.' Dekker. l. 37. _were hir'd to this._ All the MSS. read 'for this', but 'to' is quite Elizabethan, and gives the meaning more exactly. He was not taken on as a servant for this purpose, but was specially paid for this piece of work: This naughty man Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, Who I believe was pack'd in all this wrong, Hir'd to it by your brother. Shakespeare, _Much Ado_, V. i. 307.