Castara / The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635

by William Habington

Or that some friend is dead and then a teare,

A sigh or groane steales from me: for I feare

Lest death with love hath strooke my heart, and all

These sorrowes usher but its funerall.

[15]Which should revive, should there you a mourner be,

And force a nuptiall in an obsequie.

[15] Which would revive, should you there mourner be. 1634, 1635.

To the honourable my honoured kinsman, M^r. G. T.

Thrice hath the pale-fac'd Empresse of the night,