O here I miss'd not blisse, but being dead;
For loe, I dream'd, I dream'd; and waking said,
75Heaven, if who are in thee there must dwell,
How is't, I now was there, and now I fell.
An Elegie. Reflecting on &c. A10: An Elegie. H39, H40, L74, RP31: Eleg. XIII. 1635-69: no title, Cy: Elegie. P
5 Else, if you were, and just, in equitie H39: Else, if you were, and just in equitie, 1635-54, Grosart: True, if you were, and just in equitie, 1669, Chambers (True)
12 Orecame she Fates, Love, Death, MSS.: Or can the Fates love death, 1635-69
13 distaffe 1635-69, H39, L74: distaves A10, H40, RP31
14 For their ... on us they laye. Cy, H39, H40, L74, P: For ransome, which taxe they on us doe lay. 1635-69: For Ransome, but a taxe on us they lay: A10
17-19 Death] death 1635-69