The 'call' of _1633_ is so strongly supported by the MSS. that it is dangerous to alter it. Grosart (whom Chambers follows) reads 'cast', from _S_; but a glance at the whole line as it stands there shows how little can be built upon it. 'To cast' is generally used in the phrase 'to cast his water' and thereby tell his malady; but the O.E.D. gives one example which resembles this passage if 'cast' be the right word here: Able to cast his disease without his water. Greene's _Menaphon_. I rather fancy, however, that 'call' is right, and is to be taken in close connexion with the next line, 'You could not cast the eyes water, and thereby call the malady desperately hot or changing feverously.' If thou couldst, Doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease. Shakespeare, _Macbeth_, V. iii. 50. The 'casting' preceded and led to the finding, naming the disease, calling it this or that. ll. 9 f. _I had not taught thee then, the Alphabet Of flowers, &c._ '_Posy_, in both its senses, is a contraction of _poesy_, the flowers of a nosegay expressing by their arrangement a sentiment like that engraved on a ring.' Weekly, _Romance of Words_, London, 1912, p. 134. She had not yet learned to sort flowers so as to make a posy. l. 13. _Remember since, &c._ For the idiom compare: Beseech you, sir, Remember since you owed no more to time Than I do now. Shakespeare, _Winter's Tale_, V. i. 219. See Franz, _Shakespeare-Grammatik_, § 559. l. 22. _Inlaid thee._ The O.E.D. cites this line as the only example of 'inlay' meaning 'to lay in, or as in, a place of concealment or preservation.' The sense is much that of 'to lay up', but the word has perhaps some of its more usual meaning, 'to set or embed in another substance.' 'Your husband has given to you, his jewel, such a setting as conceals instead of setting off your charms. I have refined and heightened those charms.' l. 25. _Thy graces and good words my creatures bee._ I was tempted to adopt with Chambers the 'good works' of _1669_ and some MSS., the theological connexion of 'grace' and 'works' being just the kind of conceit Donne loves to play with. But the 'words' of _1633-54_ has the support of so good a MS. as _W_, and 'good words' is an Elizabethan idiom for commendation, praise, flattery: He that will give, Good words to thee will flatter neath abhorring. Shakespeare, _Coriolanus_, I. i. 170-1. In your bad strokes you give good words. Shakespeare, _Julius Caesar_, V. i. 30.