Tell me but how one body can enclose, As loving friends, two deadly hating foes? The colour made, doth differ much from either; IX. So, like the web Penelope did weave, Which made by day, she did at night unreave, X. Since then from Chastity and Beauty spring Be made the seat of Beauty's grace alone: And let your beauty be with this suffic'd, SONNET XI. THAT HE CANNOT LEAVE TO LOVE, THOUGH How can my love in equity be blamed, Her syren voice doth such enchantment move, And though she frown, ev'n frowns so lovely make her, That I of force am forced still to love. Since that' I must, and yet cannot forsake her, My fruitless prayers shall cease in vain to move her; But my devoted heart ne'er cease to love her. SONNET XII. HE DESIRES LEAVE TO WRITE OF HIS LOVE. MUST my What harder thing than love, and yet depress it? Were I tongue-tied, that I might not address it, Were I tongue-tied, my sighs would make her know it, I then. edit. 1602. move.-edit. 1608, but probably a misprint. Since then, though silent, I my love discover, QUID PLUMA LEVIUS? PULVIS. QUID PULVERE? VENTUS. QUID VENTO? MULIER. QUID MULIERE? NIHIL. TRANSLATED THUS. DUST is lighter than a feather, 'And the wind more light than either: But a Woman's fickle mind, More than feather, dust, or wind. a Walter Davison. W. D." SONNETS, ODES, ELEGIES, AND OTHER POESIES. TEN SONNETS BY T. W. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE LOVER AND HIS HEART." LOVER. SPEAK, gentle heart, where is thy dwelling ᎻᎬᎪᎡᎢ, LOVER. LOVER. place? With her whose birth the heav'ns themselves have blest. What dost thou there ?P-HEART. Sometimes behold her face, And lodge sometimes within her chrystal breast. She cold, thou hot, how can you then agree? HEART. Not Nature now, but Love doth govern me. • A note to Sir Egerton Brydges's edition informs us, that this sonnet and the following, with some slight variations by Thomas Watson, were inserted in the Hekatompathia, or Passionate Century of Love. They were not introduced in the first edition of the "Rhapsody." pHere."-edit. 1621. |