She that her fame so to herself contrives,
The scars of battle scapeth by the flight,
And makes her absence valiant, not her might.

O, pardon me, in that my boast is true!
The accident which brought me to her eye,
Upon the moment did her force subdue,
And now she would the caged cloister fly;
Religious love put out religion's eye:
Not to be tempted, would she be immur'd,
And now, to tempt all, liberty procur'd'.

How mighty then you are, O hear me tell!
The broken bosoms that to me belong,
Have emptied all their fountains in my well,
And mine I pour your ocean all among :

I strong o'er them, and you o'er me being strong,
Must for your victory us all congest,

As compound love to physic your cold breast.

My parts had power to charm a sacred sun",
Who, disciplin'd, I dieted in grace',
Believ'd her eyes, when they t' assail begun,
All vows and and consecrations giving place.
O most potential love! vow, bond, nor space,
In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,
For thou art all, and all things else are thine.

When thou impressest, what are precepts worth
Of stale example? When thou wilt inflame,

6 She that her fame so to herself CONTRIVES,] In "The Taming of the Shrew," Vol. iii. p. 136, we meet with a somewhat similar use of the verb to "contrive." 7 Not to be tempted, would she be immur'd,

And now, to tempt all, liberty procur'd.] The passage is thus given in the quarto, 1609:

8

"Not to be tempted would she be enur'd,

And now, to tempt all, liberty procure."

There is little doubt that the lines have been properly amended by Malone. - to charm a sacred SUN,] Very possibly, as Malone proposes, we ought to read nun for "sun."

9 Who, disciplined, I DIETED in grace,] Our text is from the quarto, 1609, the property of Lord Francis Egerton. Malone's copy at Oxford has "I died" for "and dieted," which he substituted at the suggestion of a correspondent. The meaning of the reading we have restored, and which must have been substituted in the press, is very distinct.

How coldly those impediments stand forth

Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame?

Love's arms are peace', 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense, 'gainst shame ;

And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears,

The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears.

Now, all these hearts that do on mine depend,
Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine;
And supplicant their sighs to you extend,

To leave the battery that you make 'gainst mine,
Lending soft audience to my sweet design,
And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath,
That shall prefer and undertake my troth."

This said, his watery eyes he did dismount,
Whose sights till then were level'd on my face;
Each cheek a river running from a fount
With brinish current downward flow'd apace.
O, how the channel to the stream gave grace!
Who, glaz'd with crystal, gate the glowing roses
That flame through water which their hue incloses.

O father! what a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear;
But with the inundation of the eyes

What rocky heart to water will not wear?
What breast so cold that is not warmed here?
O cleft effect! cold modesty, hot wrath,
Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath!

For lo! his passion, but an art of craft,
Even there resolv'd my reason into tears;
There my white stole of chastity I daff'd ;
Shook off my sober guards, and civil fears :

1 Love's arms are PEACE,] We may suppose a misprint here, but still sense can be made out of the original text. Malone would read "Love's arms are proof;" and Steevens, "Love aims at peace." If we made any change, we should prefer the recommendation of Malone, but even he did not think it expedient to insert it in the text. We must make "Love," understood, the nominative to "sweetens."

20 cleft effect!"] The old copy has "Or cleft effect," doubtless an error, and properly corrected by Malone.

Appear to him, as he to me appears,

All melting; though our drops this difference bore,
His poison'd me, and mine did him restore.

In him a plenitude of subtle matter,
Applied to cautels, all strange forms receives,
Of burning blushes, or of weeping water,
Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves,
In either's aptness, as it best deceives

To blush at speeches rank, to weep at woes,
Or to turn white, and swoon at tragic shows:

That not a heart which in his level came,
Could scape the hail of his all-hurting aim,
Showing fair nature is both kind and tame,
And veil'd in them, did win whom he would maim :
Against the thing he sought he would exclaim;
When he most burn'd in heart-wish'd luxury,
He preach'd pure maid, and prais'd cold chastity.

Thus, merely with the garment of a grace
The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd;
That th' unexperienc'd gave the tempter place,
Which, like a cherubin, above them hover'd.
Who, young and simple, would not be so lover'd?
Ah me! I fell; and yet do question make,
What I should do again for such a sake.

O, that infected moisture of his eye!

O, that false fire, which in his cheek so glowed!
O, that forc'd thunder from his heart did fly!
O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestowed!
O, all that borrow'd motion, seeming owed3,
Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd,
And new pervert a reconciled maid!

3 O, all that borrow'd motion, seeming OWED,] i. e. seeming owned: Malone explains the passage thus,-that passion which he borrowed from others so naturally, that it seemed real, and his own.

THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM.