Part 13 (2/2)

As in a burning gla.s.s the aerial flame With the producing ray is still the same, 10 We to love's purest quintessence refin'd, Do both become one undivided mind.

This sacred fire into itself converts Our yielding spirits and our melting hearts, Till both our lines into one spirit run; 15 So several lines are in their centre one.

And when thy fair idea is impress'd In the soft tablet of my easier breast, The sweet reflexion brings such sympathy, That I my better self behold in thee; 20 And all perfections that in thee combine, By this resultance are entirely mine.

Thy rays disperse my shades, who only live Bright in the l.u.s.tre thou art pleas'd to give,

15:2. P. 22, line 8. _i.e._ 'I [who] know no native light but light borrowed from thee.' The rather obscure phrase is obscured the more by its slovenly original punctuation.

15:3. P. 22, line 10. 'Wouldst': 1651.

_The Blush_ (p. 24).

16:1. P. 24, line 11. 'Conferr'd' in 1647; 'comferd' in Gamble's _Ayres_, 1657. The right word is obvious.

16:2. P. 24, line 16. 'Knows': 1647.

_The Cold Kiss_ (p. 25).

17:1. P. 25, line 3. 'These': 1657.

17:2. P. ” line 12. 'My': 1657.

17:3. P. ” line 15. 'Lip': 1657.

_The Idolater_ (p. 25).

18:1. P. 26, line 7. 'By' in other texts, but 'from' in Gamble, 1856.

18:2. P. ” line 11. 'He' in 1647: the later text must be right.

18:3. P. ” line 18. 'Breast': 1647.

_The Magnet_ (p. 26).

19:1. P. 26, line 9. 'She': 1657.

19:2. P. 27, line 13. 'Then': 1647.

_Song: 'Foolish Lover'_ (p. 28).

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