2152Tempteth my better angel from my sight,

2153And would corrupt my saint to be a diuel:

2154Wooing his purity with her fowle pride.

2155And whether that my angel be turn'd finde,

2156Suspect I may, yet not directly tell,

2157But being both from me both to each friend,

2158I gesse one angel in an others hel.

2159 Yet this shal I nere know but liue in doubt,

2160Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

2162THose lips that Loues owne hand did make,

2163Breath'd forth the sound that said I hate,

2164To me that languisht for her sake:

2165But when she saw my wofull state,

2166Straight in her heart did mercie come,

2167Chiding that tongue that euer sweet,

2168Was vsde in giuing gentle dome:

2169And tought it thus a new to greete:

2170I hate she alterd with an end,

2171That follow'd it as gentle day,

2172Doth follow night who like a fiend

2173From heauen to hell is flowne away.

2174 I hate, from hate away she threw,

2175And sau'd my life saying not you.

2177POore soule the center of my sinfull earth,

2178My sinfull earth these rebbell powres that thee array,

2179Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth

2180Painting thy outward walls so costlie gay?

2181Why so large cost hauing so short a lease,

2182Dost thou vpon thy fading mansion spend?

2183Shall wormes inheritors of this excesse

2184Eate vp thy charge? is this thy bodies end?

2185Then soule liue thou vpon thy seruants losse,

2186And let that pine to aggrauat thy store;

2187Buy tearmes diuine in selling houres of drosse: