'O, that infected moisture of his eye,
O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow'd,
O, that forced thunder from his heart did fly,
O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow'd,
O, all that borrow'd motion seeming owed,
Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd,
And new pervert a reconciled maid!'

324 glow'd] glowd Q. glowed Collier.
326 bestow'd] Gildon. bestowed Q.
327 borrow'd] Sewell (ed. 2). borrowed
Q.

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328 fore-betray'd] fore-betraid ed. 1640. fore-betrayed Q.

329 new pervert] Hyphened in Capell

MS.

NOTE.

261. Malone in his edition of 1780, quotes the reading of the Quarto in this line as 'I dieted,' and in his edition of 1790 as 'I died.' The Bridgewater Quarto, and that from which Capell supplemented in manuscript his own imperfect copy, read 'I dieted.' Both the copies in the Bodleian have the same reading.

THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM.

THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM.

I.

WHEN my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
Unskilful in the world's false forgeries.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although I know my years be past the best,
I smiling credit her false-speaking tongue,
Outfacing faults in love with love's ill rest.
But wherefore says my love that she is young?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love's best habit is a soothing tongue,
And age, in love, loves not to have years told.

Therefore I'll lie with love, and love with me,
Since that our faults in love thus smother'd be.

II.

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
That like two spirits do suggest me still;
My better angel is a man right fair,
My worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.

1. See Sonnet CXXXVIII.

7 false-speaking] Hyphened by Delius. 11 soothing] smoothing Gildon.

II. See Sonnet CXLIV.

4 spirit] ed. 1612. spirite ed. 1599.

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