Then here I'l sit and sigh my hot loves folly,
And learn t'affect an holy melancholy.
And if contentment be a stranger, then
I'l nere look for it, but in heaven again.
〈Farewell, Ye Guilded Follies.〉 Ed: variously titled, Add. MS. 18220, C.C.C. Oxon. MS. 324, Egerton MS. 2603, Harleian MS. 6057: printed in Walton's Compleat Angler (1653), Wits Interpreter (1655) Hannah's Courtly Poets: Grosart prints from MS. Dd. 643 in Cambridge University Library, and Chambers follows—a very inferior version: text from Walton
2 ye glorious] ye christal A18, E26, H60: the christall WI
6 keepe A18, E26, H60: live Walton
8 proudly] proud Walton
9 a loane Ed: a lone Walton: but loane MSS.
18 mine E26, CCC: mind Walton, A182, H60, WI: minds Grosart and Chambers