[22:4.] P. ” line 13. ‘Powers’: a misprint of 1647.
[22:5.] P. ” lines 23-24. The final couplet in 1647 is:
‘Who would keep another’s heart,
With her own must never part.’
‘Who would keep another’s heart,
With her own must never part.’
Expostulation with Love, in Despair (p. 30).
The text here given is a composite. The variants follow:
[23:1.] P. 30, lines 1-4. 1647:
‘Love, with what strange tyrannic laws must they
Comply, which are subjected to thy sway!
How far all justice thy commands decline
Which though they hope forbid, yet love enjoin!’
‘Love, with what strange tyrannic laws must they
Comply, which are subjected to thy sway!
How far all justice thy commands decline
Which though they hope forbid, yet love enjoin!’
The elision of the relative pronoun between lines 3 and 4 of the present text, and again in the course of line 5, is an irritating mannerism of the time, nowhere more frequent than in Stanley.