Possess our breast, too cold before.

In vain, alas! thou dost invade

Those beauties which can never fade.

4 'On those sweets which crown the fair' 1656.

7 blushing] blooming 1657.

8 drooping] dropping 1647: suffering 1656.

14 For any] 1656 But any—nonsensically.


On his Mistress's Death.

PETRARCH.