45Sterved men doe know there's meate, and blind men may
Though hid from light presume there is a day.
The rover in the marke his arrowe sticks
Sometimes as well as he that shootes att prickes,
And if I might direct my shaft aright,
50The black mark would I hitt and not the white.
On Black Hayre and Eyes Add. MS. 11811, on which text is based: in several MSS. including A25, TCD (II), L77: printed in Parnassus Biceps (1656), Pembroke and Ruddier's Poems (1660), Simeon (1856-7), Grosart, and Chambers
2 it A21, H60, TCD: them A11: things L77
4 shine H39, TCD: seem A11, Grosart, and Chambers
8 mayden weeds,] maidenheads, H39, TCD, Grosart, and Chambers