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Confined Love
- 1Some man unworthy to be possessor
- 2Of old or new love, himselfe being false or weake,
- Critical Apparatus3 Thought his paine and shame would be lesser,
- 4If on womankind he might his anger wreake,
- 5 And thence a law did grow,
- Critical Apparatus6 One should but one man know;
- 7 But are other creatures so?
- 8 Are Sunne, Moone, or Starres by law forbidden,
- 9To smile where they list, or lend away their light?
- 10 Are birds divorc'd, or are they chidden
- 11If they leave their mate, or lie abroad a night?
- pg 35Critical Apparatus12 Beasts doe no joyntures lose
- Critical Apparatus13 Though they new lovers choose,
- 14 But we are made worse then those.
- 15 Who e'r rigg'd faire ship to lie in harbors,
- 16And not to seeke new lands, or not to deale withall?
- Critical Apparatus17 Or built fair houses, set trees, and arbours,
- 18Only to lock up, or else to let them fall?
- 19 Good is not good, unlesse
- 20 A thousand it possesse,
- 21 But doth wast with greedinesse.
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Confined Love. H 40, S 96, A 25 omit. Title from 1635: To ye worthiest of all my Lovers Cy: To the worthiest of all my lov my virtuous Mrs P.
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Breake of Day. Cy omits. First printed in William Corkine's Second Book of Ayres, 1612. Title from 1633, TC.
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3 lesser] the lesser Dob, HK 2, Cy, P, JC
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6 should MSS.: might 1633, Gr
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12 doe] did C 57, H 49, TC, Dob, HK 2, Cy, P, S
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13 choose] chose TCD, Dob, P, B
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17 built] build C 57, H 49, TC
