If heav'ns bright torches, from earth's Kidneys, sup Som somwhat dry and heatfull Vapours up, Th' ambitious lightning of their nimble Fire Would suddenly neer th' Azure Cirques aspire: But scarce so soon their fuming crest hath raught, Or toucht the Coldness of the middle Vault, And felt what force their mortall Enemy In Garrison keeps there continually; When down again towards their Dam they bear, Holp by the weight which they have drawn from her. But in the instant, to their aid arrives Another new heat, which their heart revives, Re-arms their hand, and having staied their flight, Better resolv'd brings them again to fight. Well fortifi'd then by these fresh supplies, More bravely they renew their enterprize: And one-while th' upper hand (with honor) getting, Another-while disgracefully retreating, Our lower Aire they tosse in sundry sort, As weak or strong their matter doth comport. This lasts not long; because the heat and cold, Equall in force and fortune, equall bold In these assaults; to end this sudden brall, Th' one stops their mounting, th' other stayes their fall: So that this vapour, never resting stound, Stands never still, but makes his motion round, Posteth from Pole to Pole, and flies amain From _Spain_ to _India_, and from _Inde_ to _Spain_. Sylvester, _Du Bartas_, First Week, Second Day. l. 18. _prisoners, which lye but for fees_, i.e. the fees due to the gaoler. 'And as prisoners discharg'd of actions may lye for fees; so when,' &c. _Deaths Duell_ (1632), p. 9. Thirty-three years after this poem was written, Donne thus uses the same figure in the last sermon he ever preached. PAGE =176=, l. 38. _I, and the Sunne._ The 'Yea, and the Sunne' of _Q_ shows that 'I' here is probably the adverb, not the pronoun, though the passage is ambiguous. Modern editors have all taken 'I' as the pronoun. ll. 49-50. _And do hear so Like jealous husbands, what they would not know._ Compare: Crede mihi; nulli sunt crimina grata marito; Nec quemquam, quamvis audiat illa, iuvant. Seu tepet, indicium securas perdis ad aures; Sive amat, officio fit miser ille tuo. Culpa nec ex facili, quamvis manifesta, probatur: Iudicis illa sui tuta favore venit. Viderit ipse licet, credet tamen ipse neganti; Damnabitque oculos, et sibi verba dabit. Adspiciet dominae lacrimas; plorabit et ipse: Et dicet, poenas garrulus iste dabit. Ovid, _Amores_, II. ii. 51-60. PAGE =177=, l. 60. _Strive._ Later editions and Chambers read 'strives', but 'ordinance' was used as a plural: 'The goodly ordinance which were xii great Bombardes of brasse', and 'these six small iron ordinance.' O.E.D. The word in this sense is now spelt 'ordnance'. l. 66. _the'Bermuda_. It is probably unnecessary to change this to 'the'Bermudas.' The singular without the article is quite regular.