1649 Then giue me welcome, next my heauen the best,

1650Euen to thy pure and most most louing brest.

1652O For my sake doe you wish fortune chide,

1653The guiltie goddesse of my harmfull deeds,

1654That did not better for my life prouide,

1655Then publick meanes which publick manners breeds.

1656Thence comes it that my name receiues a brand,

1657And almost thence my nature is subdu'd

1658To what it workes in, like the Dyers hand,

1659Pitty me then, and wish I were renu'de,

1660Whilst like a willing pacient I will drinke,

1661Potions of Eysell gainst my strong infection,

1662No bitternesse that I will bitter thinke,

1663Nor double pennance to correct correction.

1664 Pittie me then deare friend, and I assure yee,

1665 Euen that your pittie is enough to cure mee.

1667YOur loue and pittie doth th'impression fill,

1668Which vulgar scandall stampt vpon my brow,

1669For what care I who calles me well or ill,

1670So you ore-greene my bad, my good alow?

1671You are my All the world, and I must striue,

1672To know my shames and praises from your tounge,

1673None else to me, nor I to none aliue,

1674That my steel'd sence or changes right or wrong,

1675In so profound Abisme I throw all care

1676Of others voyces, that my Adders sence,

1677To cryttick and to flatterer stopped are:

1678Marke how with my neglect I doe dispence.

1679 You are so strongly in my purpose bred,

1680That all the world besides me thinkes y'are dead.

1682SInce I left you, mine eye is in my minde,

1683And that which gouernes me to goe about,

1684Doth part his function, and is partly blind,