ine 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).

20:1. P. 28, line 24. 'Distinguish,' by printer's error, in 1657.

_The Parting_ (p. 29).

21:1. P. 29, line 4. 'Do': 1647.

21:2. P. " lines 5-6. 1647:

'But when hereafter thou shalt know
That grief hath slain me, come.'

21:3. P. " line 19. 'Condemn': 1647; 'contain': 1657. 'Contemn' is
Stanley's word, if one is to judge from the context.

_Counsel_ (p. 29).

22:1. P. 29, line 4. 'Creature': 1647.

22:2. P. 30, line 7. 'Their': 1657.

22:3. P. " line 10. This line is a tangle of misprints in 1657, viz.:

'Stars to jewels they divest thee.'

22:4. P. " line 13. 'Powers': a misprint of 1647.

22:5. P. " lines 23-24. The final couplet in 1647 is:

'Who would keep another's heart,
With her own must never part.'

_Expostulation with Love, in Despair_ (p. 30).

The text here given is a composite. The variants follow:

23:1. P. 30, lines 1-4. 1647:

'Love, with what strange tyrannic laws must they
Comply, which are subjected to thy sway!
How far all justice thy commands decline
Which though they hope forbid, yet love enjoin!'

The elision of the relative pronoun between lines 3 and 4 of the
present text, and again in the course of line 5, is an irritating
mannerism of the time, nowhere more frequent than in Stanley.

23:2. P. 31, line 9. 1657: 'hope.'

23:3. P. " line 10. 1647: 'hopes as cold'; 1657: 'thoughts that's cold.'

23:4. P. 31, line 14. 1647:

'When death and cold despair inhabit near?'

And 1657:

'When death and old despair inhabit here?'

23:5. P. 31, line 15. 1647:

'Rule in my breast alone, or else retire.'

23:6. P. " line 16. 1647: 'thy.'

23:7. P. " lines 17-18. The closing couplet of 1647 reads:

'Or let me not desire, or else possess!
Neither, or both, are equal happiness.'

And 1657:

'Thus let me ...