V.

I AM a little world made cunningly

Of Elements, and an Angelike spright,

But black sinne hath betraid to endlesse night

My worlds both parts, and (oh) both parts must die.

5You which beyond that heaven which was most high

Have found new sphears, and of new lands can write,

Powre new seas in mine eyes, that so I might

Drowne my world with my weeping earnestly,

Or wash it, if it must be drown'd no more:

10But oh it must be burnt! alas the fire

Of lust and envie have burnt it heretofore,

And made it fouler; Let their flames retire,

And burne me รด Lord, with a fiery zeale

Of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heale.

V. 1635-69: omitted 1633, A18, D, &c.: VII. B, O'F, S96, W

6 lands B, S96, W: land 1635-69, O'F

7 I 1635-54: he 1669

9 it, Ed: it: W: it 1635-69

10 burnt! Ed: burnt, 1635-69

11 have B, S96, W: hath O'F: om. 1635-69

12 fouler; W: fouler, 1635-69

their] those W

13 Lord] God W

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VI.

THIS is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint

My pilgrimages last mile; and my race

Idly, yet quickly runne, hath this last pace,

My spans last inch, my minutes latest point,

5And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoynt

My body, and soule, and I shall sleepe a space,

But my'ever-waking part shall see that face,

Whose feare already shakes my every joynt:

Then, as my soule, to'heaven her first seate, takes flight,

10And earth-borne body, in the earth shall dwell,

So, fall my sinnes, that all may have their right,

To where they'are bred, and would presse me, to hell.

Impute me righteous, thus purg'd of evill,

For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devill.

VI. 1635-69, B, O'F, S96, W: III. 1633, A18, D, &c.

6 and soule, 1635-69: and my soule, 1633

7 Or presently, I know not, see that Face, B, D, H49, O'F, S, S96, W

10 earth-borne 1635-69: earth borne 1633

14 flesh,] flesh 1633

the devill.] and devill. A18, B, D, H49, N, O'F, S96, TC, W

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