631WHen most I winke then doe mine eyes best see,

632For all the day they view things vnrespected,

633But when I sleepe, in dreames they looke on thee,

634And darkely bright, are bright in darke directed.

635Then thou whose shaddow shaddowes doth make bright,

636How would thy shadowes forme, forme happy show,

637To the cleere day with thy much cleerer light,

638When to vn-seeing eyes thy shade shines so?

639How would(I say)mine eyes be blessed made,

640By looking on thee in the liuing day ?

641When in dead night their faire imperfect shade,

642Through heauy sleepe on sightlesse eyes doth stay?

643 All dayes are nights to see till I see thee,

644And nights bright daies when dreams do shew thee me,

646IF the dull substance of my flesh were thought,

647Iniurious distance should not stop my way,

648For then dispight of space I would be brought,

649From limits farre remote, where thou doost stay,

650No matter then although my foote did stand

651Vpon the farthest earth remoou'd from thee,

652For nimble thought can iumpe both sea and land,

653As soone as thinke the place where he would be.

654But ah, thought kills me that I am not thought

655To leape large lengths of miles when thou art gone,

656But that so much of earth and water wrought,

657I must attend, times leasure with my mone.

658 Receiuing naughts by elements so sloe,

659But heauie teares, badges of eithers woe.

661THe other two, slight ayre, and purging fire,

662Are both with thee, where euer I abide,

663The first my thought, the other my desire,

664These present absent with swift motion slide.

665For when these quicker Elements are gone

666In tender Embassie of loue to thee,

667My life being made of foure, with two alone,

668Sinkes downe to death, opprest with melancholie.

669Vntill liues composition be recured,

670By those swift messengers return'd from thee,

671Who euen but now come back againe assured,

672Of their faire health, recounting it to me.

673 This told, I ioy, but then no longer glad,

674 I send them back againe and straight grow sad.