• My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
      By just exchange one to the other given:
    I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
      There never was a better bargain driven:
    My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.

    His heart in me keeps him and me in one;
      My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:
    He loves my heart, for once it...

  • From “Patient Grissell,” Act I. Sc. 1.
    ART thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
            O sweet content!
    Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed?
            O punishment!
    Dost thou laugh to see how fools are vexed
    To add to golden numbers, golden numbers?
    O sweet content! O sweet, O sweet content!
      “Work apace, apace, apace,...