. The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, ; that gives it life:Till then her beauty like the sun doth shineMike to all; that makes it, only mine. And of that love, let reason father be,And passion mother ; let it from the oneHis being take, the other his degree ;Selfe-love (which second loves are built upon) Will make me (if not her) her love respect; No man but favours his owne worths effect. A WIFE. 45 As good and wise ; so be she fit for me,That is, to ivill, and not to will, the same:My wife is my adopted selfe, and sheAs me, so what I love, to love must fr
. The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, ; that gives it life:Till then her beauty like the sun doth shineMike to all; that makes it, only mine. And of that love, let reason father be,And passion mother ; let it from the oneHis being take, the other his degree ;Selfe-love (which second loves are built upon) Will make me (if not her) her love respect; No man but favours his owne worths effect. A WIFE. 45 As good and wise ; so be she fit for me,That is, to ivill, and not to will, the same:My wife is my adopted selfe, and sheAs me, so what I love, to love must frame:For when by manage both in one concurre,Woman converts to man, not man to her. FINIS. THE AUTHOUKS EPITAPH. WRITTEN BY HIMSELFE. THE span of my dates measured, here I rest,That is, my body ; but my soule, his guest,Is hence ascended: whither, neither time,Nor faith, nor hope, but only love can clime ;Where being now enlightned, she doth knowThe truth of all men argue of below: Onely this dust doth here in pawne remaine,That, when the world dissolves, she come
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