A La Bourbon. Done Moy Plus De Pitie Ou Plus De Creaulte, Car Sans CI Ie Ne Puis Pas Viure, Ne Morir

I.
Divine Destroyer, pitty me no more,
     Or else more pitty me;<57.2>
Give me more love, ah, quickly give me more,
     Or else more cruelty!
       For left thus as I am,
       My heart is ice and flame;
     And languishing thus, I
     Can neither live nor dye!

                    II.
Your glories are eclipst, and hidden in the grave
     Of this indifferency;
And, Caelia, you can neither altars have,
     Nor I, a Diety:
       They are aspects divine,
       That still or smile, or shine,
     Or, like th' offended sky,
     Frowne death immediately.

<57.1> Original reads AU.

<57.2> In his poem entitled "Mediocrity in Love rejected," Carew has a similar sentiment:—

    "Give me more Love, or more Disdain,
     The Torrid, or the Frozen Zone,
     Bring equall ease unto my paine;
     The Temperate affords me none:
     Either extreme, of Love, or Hate,
     Is sweeter than a calme estate."
          Carew's POEMS, ed. 1651, p. 14.

And so also Stanley (AYRES AND DIALOGUES, set by J. Gamble, 1656, p. 20):—

    "So much of absence and delay,
     That thus afflicts my memorie.
     Why dost thou kill me every day,
     Yet will not give me leave to die?"