Or else that she in that white waxen hill
Hath seal'd the primrose of her utmost skill.
But now my muse hath spied a dark descent
From this so precious, pearly, permanent,
A milky highway that direction yields
Unto the port-mouth of the Elysian fields:
A place desired of all, but got by these
Whom love admits to the Hesperides;
Here's golden fruit, that doth exceed all price,
Growing in this love-guarded paradise;
Above the entrance there is written this:
This is the portal to the bower of bliss,
Through midst whereof a crystal stream there flows
Passing the sweet sweet of a musky rose.
With plump, soft flesh, of metal pure and fine,
Resembling shields, both pure and crystalline.
Hence rise those two ambitious hills that look
Into th' middle, sweet, sight-stealing crook,
Which for the better beautifying shrouds
Its humble self 'twixt two aspiring clouds
The third addition is four lines from the end, after "with a pearly
shell":
Richer than that fair, precious, virtuous horn
That arms the forehead of the unicorn.
The last four lines are joined on at the end of all:
Unto the idol of the work divine
I consecrate this loving life of mine,
Bowing my lips unto that stately root
Where beauty springs; and thus I kiss her foot.
INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
An old, old widow, Greedy needs would wed, 383.
Bad are all surfeits; but physicians call, 403.
Bar close as you can, and bolt fast too your door, 380.
Batt he gets children, not for love to rear 'em, 379.
Bice laughs, when no man speaks; and doth protest, 399.
Blanch swears her husband's lovely; when a scald, 376.
Blisse, last night drunk, did kiss his mother's knee, 404.
Boreman takes toll, cheats, flatters, lies! yet Boreman, 406.
Broomsted a lameness got by cold and beer, 392.
Brown bread Tom Pennie eats, and must of right, 406.
Buggins is drunk all night, all day he sleeps, 406.
Bungy does fast; looks pale; puts sackcloth on, 382.
Burr is a smell-feast, and a man alone, 404.
Center is known weak sighted, and he sells, 386.
Cob clouts his shoes, and as the story tells, 396.
Cock calls his wife his hen; when cock goes to 't, 395.
Comely acts well; and when he speaks his part, 399.
Craw cracks in sirrop; and does stinking say, 388.
Crooked you are, but that dislikes not me, 381.
Cuffe comes to church much; but he keeps his bed, 377.
Curse not the mice, no grist of thine they eat, 384.
Dunridge his issue hath; but is not styl'd, 392.
Doll, she so soon began the wanton trade, 385.
E'en all religious courses to be rich, 399.
Eeles winds and turns, and cheats and steals; yet Eeles, 386.
Feacie, some say, doth wash her clothes i' th' lie, 390.
Fie, quoth my lady, what a stink is here, 395.
First, Jolly's wife is lame; then next loose-hip'd, 378.
Flood, if he has for him and his a bit, 409.
Fone says, those mighty whiskers he does wear, 377.
For ropes of pearl, first Madam Ursly shows, 397.
For second course, last night a custard came, 378.
For thirty years Tubbs has been proud and poor, 405.
Franck ne'er wore silk she swears; but I reply, 394.
Franck would go scour her teeth; and setting to 't, 398.
Give me a reason why men call, 401.
Goes the world now, it will with thee go hard, 376.
Glasco had none, but now some teeth has got, 377.
Glass, out of deep, and out of desp'rate want, 386.
Groynes, for his fleshly burglary of late, 381.
Grubs loves his wife and children, while that they, 407.
Grudgings turns bread to stones, when to the poor, 395.
Gryll eats, but ne'er says grace: to speak the truth, 378.
Gubbs calls his children kitlings: and would bound, 380.
Guess cuts his shoes, and limping, goes about, 381.
Hanch, since he lately did inter his wife, 402.
Hog has a place i' th' kitchen, and his share, 407.
Horne sells to others teeth; but has not one, 394.
How could Luke Smeaton wear a shoe or boot, 398.
Huncks has no money, he does swear or say, 390.
I abhor the slimy kiss, 402.
I dream't this mortal part of mine, 375.
If felt and heard, unseen, thou dost me please, 408.
If thou dislik'st the piece thou light'st on first, 375.
If wounds in clothes, Cuts calls his rags, 'tis clear, 385.
I have seen many maidens to have hair, 393.
In Den'shire Kersey Lusk when he was dead, 409.
In's Tusc'lans, Tully doth confess, 409.
Is Zelot pure? he is: yet, see he wears, 397.
Jone is a wench that's painted, 396.
Joan would go tell her hairs; and well she might, 392.
Jolly and Jilly bite and scratch all day, 387.
Kissing and bussing differ both in this, 391.
Last night thou didst invite me home to eat, 388.
Letcher was carted first about the streets, 392.
Linnet plays rarely on the lute, we know, 385.
Long locks of late our zealot Peason wears, 402.
Leech boasts he has a pill, that can alone, 383.
Luggs, by the condemnation of the bench, 378.
Lulls swears he is all heart; but you'll suppose, 403.
Lungs, as some say, ne'er sets him down to eat, 396.
Lupes for the outside of his suit has paid, 405.
Maggot frequents those houses of good cheer, 391.
Mease brags of pullets which he eats; but Mease, 384.
Meg yesterday was troubled with a pose, 404.
Money thou ow'st me; prethee fix a day, 380.
Moon is a usurer, whose gain, 384.
Much-more provides and hoards up like an ant, 379.
Mudge every morning to the postern comes, 405.
Nis he makes verses; but the lines he writes, 403.
No question but Doll's cheeks would soon roast dry, 407.
Now Patrick with his footmanship has done, 387.
Of flanks and chines of beef doth Gorrell boast, 380.
Of four teeth only Bridget was possest, 387.
Of pushes Spalt has such a knotty race, 394.
Old Parson Beanes hunts six days of the week, 389.
Old Widow Prouse, to do her neighbours evil, 400.
Old Widow Shopter, whensoe'er she cries, 408.
Once on a Lord Mayor's day, in Cheapside, when, 392.
One silver spoon shines in the house of Croot, 408.
Pagget, a schoolboy, got a sword, and then, 378.
Parrat protests, 'tis he, and only he, 401.
Paske, though his debt be one upon the day, 384.
Paul's hands do give; what give they, bread or meat, 398.
Peapes, he does strut, and pick his teeth, as if, 401.
Pievish doth boast that he's the very first, 387.
Prickles is waspish, and puts forth his sting, 404.
Prigg, when he comes to houses oft doth use, 384.
Prig now drinks water, who before drank beer, 379.
Putrefaction is the end, 388.
Ralph pares his nails, his warts, his corns, and Ralph, 404.
Rasp plays at nine-holes; and 'tis known he gets, 386.
Reape's eyes so raw are that, it seems, the flies, 402.
Rook he sells feathers, yet he still doth cry, 389.
Root's had no money; yet he went o' the score, 388.
Rump is a turn-broach, yet he seldom can, 408.
Rush saves his shoes in wet and snowy weather, 409.
Science puffs up, says Gut, when either pease, 407.
Scobble for whoredom whips his wife and cries, 377.
Seal'd up with night-gum Loach, each morning lies, 400.
Shark when he goes to any public feast, 382.
Shift now has cast his clothes: got all things new, 385.
Sibb, when she saw her face how hard it was, 398.
Since Gander did his pretty youngling wed, 396.
Since Jack and Jill both wicked be, 389.
Skinns, he dined well to-day; how do you think, 386.
Skoles stinks so deadly, that his breeches loath, 396.
Skrew lives by shifts; yet swears by no small oaths, 385.
Skurf by his nine-bones swears, and well he may, 390.
Slouch he packs up, and goes to several fairs, 399.
Snare, ten i' th' hundred calls his wife; and why? 395.
Sneape has a face so brittle that it breaks, 383.
Spenke has a strong breath, yet short prayers saith, 403.
Spokes, when he sees a roasted pig, he swears, 405.
Spunge makes his boasts that he's the only man, 389.
Spur jingles now, and swears by no mean oaths, 408.
Strutt, once a foreman of a shop we knew, 378.
Sudds launders bands in piss, and starches them, 381.
Tap, better known than trusted as we hear, 401.
Teage has told lies so long that when Teage tells, 403.
That was the proverb. Let my mistress be, 383.
The eggs of pheasants wry-nosed Tooly sells, 393.
The staff is now greas'd, 410.
This lady's short, that mistress she is tall, 389.
To cleanse his eyes, Tom Brock makes much ado, 382.
To loose the button is no less, 398.
To paint the fiend, Pink would the devil see, 381.
Thou writes in prose how sweet all virgins be, 400.
Tom Blinks his nose is full of weals, and these, 401.
Tom shifts the trenchers; yet he never can, 399.
Trigg, having turn'd his suit, he struts in state, 397.
Truggin a footman was; but now, grown lame, 403.
Umber was painting of a lion fierce, 393.
Unto Pastillus rank Gorgonius came, 407.
Up with the quintell, that the rout, 406.
Urles had the gout so, that he could not stand, 394.
Vinegar is no other, I define, 405.
We read how Faunus, he the shepherds' god, 406.
Were there not a matter known, 388.
What are our patches, tatters, rags, and rents, 405.
What is the reason Coone so dully smells, 394.
What made that mirth last night, the neighbours say, 395.
When Jill complains to Jack for want of meat, 391.
When others gain much by the present cast, 385.
When Pimp's feet sweat, as they do often use, 409.
Wherever Nodes does in the summer come, 400.
Who to the north, or south, doth set, 388.
Who with thy leaves shall wipe, at need, 375.
Why walks Nick Flimsey like a malcontent! 387.
Wither'd with years, bed-rid Mamma lies, 380.
With paste of almonds, Syb her hands doth scour, 393.
Y'ave laughed enough, sweet, vary now your text, 382.
You say, you love me; that I thus must prove, 383.
You say you're young; but when your teeth are told, 390.
You say you'll kiss me, and I thank you for it, 394.
Transcriber's Endnotes
Numeration Errors in the Hesperides:
Without an obvious solution to a discrepancy the numbers remain as
originally printed, however the following alterations have been made
to ensure any details in the NOTES section apply to the relevant
poem.
Page 290. Note to 923. "924" changed to _923_.
"923. _Revenge_. Tacitus, _Hist_. iv."
Page 295. Note to 967. "726" changed to _724_.
"967. _Upon his spaniel, Tracy._ Cp. _supra_, 724."
Page 297. Note to 1035. "664" changed to _662_.
"... writing to Endymion Porter (662), and earlier ..."
Page 298. Note to 1045. "406" changed to _405_.
"... Herrick addressed the poem (405) ..."
Typographical Errors:
Page 177. 33. AN ODE OF.... "disposses" corrected to _dispossess_.
"And as we dispossess Thee ..."
Page 318. Appendix I. "arious" corrected to _various_.
"... all the various articles spread throughout ..."
Page 379. 199. UPON LUGG. "LUGG" corrected to _LUGGS_.
"199. UPON LUGGS."
Page 382. 277. LAUGH AND DIE DOWN. "DIE" corrected to _LIE_.
"277. LAUGH AND LIE DOWN."