Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

About this Item

Title
Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death
Author
Donne, John, 1572-1631.
Publication
London :: Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street,
1633.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69225.0001.001
Cite this Item
"Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69225.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.

Pages

The Indifferent.

I Can love both faire and browne, Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betraies, Her who loves lonenesse best, and her who maskes and plaies, Her whō the country form'd, & whō the town, Her who beleeves, and her who tries, Her who still weepes with spungie eyes, And her who is dry corke, and never cries; I can love her, and her, and you and you, I can love any, so she be not true.
Will no other vice content you? Wil it not serve your turn to do, as did your mothers? Or have you all old vices spent, and now would finde out others? Or doth a feare, that men are true, tor∣ment you? Oh we are not, be not you so, Let mee, and doe you, twenty know.

Page 201

Rob mee, but binde me not, and let me goe. Must I, who came to travaile thorow you, Grow your fixt subject, because you are true?
Venus heard me sigh this song, And by Loves sweetest Part, Variety, she swore, She heard not this till now; and that it should be so no more, She went, examin'd, and return'd ere long, And said, alas, Some two or three Poore Heretiques in love there bee, Which thinke to stablish dangerous constancie. But I have told them, since you will be true, You shall be true to them, who'are false to you.
Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.