The sands He us'd, no longer please,

For His owne sands Hee'l use thy seas.

6

XXVIII.

Not, so long she liuèd,'

Shall thy tomb report of thee;

But, so long she grieuèd ?'

165

Thus must we date thy memory.

Others by moments, months, and yeares
Measure their ages; thou, by teares.

XXIX.

So doe perfumes expire,

So sigh tormented sweets, opprest

With proud vnpittying fire.

Such teares the suffring rose, that's vext

With vngentle flames, does shed,

Sweating in a too warm bed.

Say, ye bright brothers,

The fugitive sons of those fair eyes,

Your fruitfull mothers!

170

What make you here? what hopes can 'tice

You to be boer! what else can borr W

You from those nests of noble worrow!

175

180

Though the hell is eyes 1.. Weg-1s be

Because they want suc

Much lesse meall We to trace

The fortune of interior gemmes,
Pretend to some proud face.

Or pertch't vpon fear'd diadens :
Crown'd heads are toyes. We goe to meet

A worthy object, our Lord's feet.

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NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

With some shortcomings-superficial rather than substantive-The Weeper' is a lovely poem, and well deserves its place of honour at the commencement of the Steps to the Temple, as in editions of 1616, 1648, and 1670. Accordingly we have spent the utmost pains on our text of it, taking for basis that of 1652. The various readings of the different editions and of the SANCROFT MS, are given below for the capable student of the ultimate perfected form. I have not hesitated

to correct several misprints of the text of 1652 from the earlier editions.

The present poem appears very imperfectly in the first edition (1646), consisting there of only twenty-three stanzas instead of thirty-three (and so too in 1670 edition). The stanzas that are not given therein are xvi. to xxix. (on the last see onward). But on the other hand, exclusive of interesting va riations, the text of 1616 supplies two entire stanzas (zi. and xxvii.) dropped out in the editions of 1648 and 1652, though both are in 1670 edition and in the SANCROFT MS. Moreover 1 accept the succession of the stanzas in 1646, so far as it goes. confirmed as it is by the SANCROFT MI. A third stanza in 1652 edition (st. xi. there, as also in 1648 edition, I omit, as it be longs self-revealingly to The Teare, and interrupts the metaphor in The Weeper. Another stanza 'xxix.) might seem to demand excision also, as it is in part repeated in The Teare;" but the new lines are dainty and would be a loss to 'The Weeper. Our text therefore is that of 1652, as before, with restorations from 1646.

The form of the stanza in the editions of 1546. 154% and 1670 is this:

Much lesse mean we to trace

The fortune of inferior gemmes,
Preferr'd to some proud face,

Or pertch't vpon fear'd diadems :

Crown'd heads are toyes. We goe to meet

A worthy object, our Lord's feet.

195

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

With some shortcomings - superficial rather than substantive The Weeper' is a lovely poem, and well deserves its place of honour at the commencement of the Steps to the Temple, as in editions of 1616, 1648, and 1670. Accordingly we have spent the utmost pains on our text of it, taking for basis that of 1652. The various readings of the different editions and of the SANCROFT MS, are given below for the capable student of the ultimate perfected form. I have not hesitated

to correct several misprints of the text of 1652 from the earlier editions.

The present poem appears very imperfectly in the first edition (1646), consisting there of only twenty-three stanzas instead of thirty-three (and so too in 1670 edition). The stanzas that are not given therein are xvi. to xxix. (on the last see onward). But on the other hand, exclusive of interesting variations, the text of 1646 supplies two entire stanzas xi. and xxvii.) dropped out in the editions of 1648 and 1652, though both are in 1670 edition and in the SANCROFT MS. Moreover I accept the succession of the stanzas in 1646, so far as it goes, confirmed as it is by the SANCROFT MS. A third stanza in 1652 edition (st. xi. there) as also in 1648 edition, I omit, as it belongs self-revealingly to The Teare,' and interrupts the metaphor in The Weeper. Another stanza (xxix.) might seem to demand excision also, as it is in part repeated in The Teare;' but the new lines are dainty and would be a loss to The Weeper. Our text therefore is that of 1652, as before, with restorations from 1646.

The form of the stanza in the editions of 1646, 1648 and 1670 is thus:

In 1652 from stanza xv. (there) to end,

but I have made all uniform, and agreeably to above of 1652. I would now submit variations, illustrations and corrections, under the successive stanzas and lines.

Couplet on the engraving of The Weeper.' In 1652'Sainte' is misprinted Sanite,' one of a number that remind us that the