To trample round my fallen head,
And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save.
There let the wind sweep and the plover cry;
But thou go by.
Compare also the Letter To Mrs M. H. (pp. [216]-8), where the same idea recurs:
When thou art there, if any, whom we know,
Were sav'd before, and did that heaven partake, &c.
Page 59. The Blossome.
l. 10. labour'st. The form with 't' occurs in most of the MSS., and 't' is restored in 1635. The 'labours' of 1633 represents a common dropping of the 't' for ease of pronunciation. See Franz, Shakespeare-Grammatik, § 152. It is colloquial, and I doubt if Donne would have preserved it if he had printed the poem, supposing that he wrote the word so, and not some copyist.
ll. 21-4. You goe to friends, whose love and meanes present