A monument of marble-stone
The truth shall testify;
That every pilgrim passing by,

May pity and deplore

My case, and read the reason why
I can love thee no more.

The golden laws of love shall be
Upon this pillar hung;

A simple heart, a single eye,

A true and constant tongue. Let no man for more love pretend Than he has hearts in store; True love begun shall never end, Love one and love no more.

Then shall thy heart be set by mine,
But in far different case;

But mine was true, so was not thine,
But looked like Janus' face.

For as the waves with every wind,
So sails thou every shore,
And leaves my constant heart behind.
How can I love thee more?

My heart shall with the sun be fixed,
For constancy most strange,

And thine shall with the moon be mixed,
Delighting aye in change.

Thy beauty shined at first most bright,
And woe is me therefore,

That ever I found thy love so light,
I could love thee no more.

As doth the turtle chaste and true,
Her fellow's death regret,

And daily mourns for his adieu,

And ne'er renews her mate;

So though thy faith was never fast,

Which grieves me wondrous sore, Yet I shall live in love so chaste, That I shall love no more.

And when all gallants ride about
These monuments to view,
Whereon is written in and out,

Thou traitorous and untrue;
Then in a passion they shall pause,
And thus say, sighing sore,
Alas! he had too just a cause
Never to love thee more.

And when that tracing goddess Fame
From east to west shall flee,
She shall record it to thy shame,

How thou hast lovéd me;

And how in odds our love was such

As few has been before;

Thou loved too many, and I too much, That I can love no more.

EDMUND WALLER.

1605-1687.

SACCHARISSA.

WALLER'S Saccharissa was the Lady Dorothea Sydney, eldest daughter of Robert Sydney, second Earl of Leicester, and Dorothea Percy, daughter of Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland. She was born in 1620, and her early years were passed at Penshurst, the famous seat of the Sydneys. As she was reputed beautiful, and her family was rich and distinguished, she was soon beset by admirers. She was much wooed by the young sprigs of nobility, and in her fifteenth year was said to be engaged to Lord Russell, the heir of the great house of Bedford. The gossips were out in their calculations, however, for my Lord Russell was followed by the Earl of Devonshire, who was followed in turn by Lord Lovelace, and others. At what period Waller made his appearance at Penshurst in the character of a lover, we are not told. There is a hiatus of four or five years in his life, which his biographers do not account for. This period embraces his courtship and first marriage. He was married in 1626, or thereabouts, when he was one or two and twenty, or according to another account, which is probably the true one, in 1631. His wife was a Miss Banks, the daughter and heiress of a rich London merchant of that name. Her fortune was large, and she had many suitors, one of whom, Mr. Crofts, afterwards Baron Crofts, was backed by the influence of the court, but Waller succeeded in distancing them all, and won her hand and fortune. At the end of three or four years she died, and left him a wealthy widower, with two children. He mourned her loss a sufficient time, and then cast about for a successor to install in her place. As he was rich enough not to need to marry again for money, he looked for beauty and rank-two charming but expensive qualities, which he however could afford. This drew him to Penshurst, and the Lady Dorothea. The date of his wooing is not given, as I have already mentioned, but circumstances fix it in 1638. He probably followed Lord Lovelace, who seems to have been dismissed the previous year. Waller's suit did not thrive. The Lady Dorothea was doubtless flattered by his attentions, as what young lady would not have been? He was a man of breeding and wit, and, as the saying was then, an ingenious and elegant poet. He wrote beautiful verses about her,