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| The Dreame |
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| Deare Loue, for nothing lesse then thee |
| Would I haue broke this happy dreame |
| It was a Theame |
| ffor Reason; much too strong for fantasy |
| Therefore thou wakd'st mee wisely: yet |
| My dreame thou brok'st not, but continewd it |
| Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffize |
| To make dreames Truths, and fables Historyes. |
| Enter these armes, and since thou thoughtst it best |
| Not to dreame all my dreame, Let's doe the rest |
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| As Lightning, or a Tapers light |
| Thine eyes, and not thy noyse wak'd mee |
| Yet I thought thee |
| (ffor thou lov'st truth) an Angel at first sight |
| But when I sawe thou sawst my hart |
| And knewst my thoughts, beyond an Angels Art, |
| When thou knewst what I dreamt, when thou knewst when |
| Excesse of ioye would wake mee, and cam'st then; |
| I doe confesse it could not chuse but bee |
| Profanesse to thinke thee any thing but thee |
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| Com̄ing and staying shewd thee thee. |
| But rising makes mee doubt that now |
| Thou art not thou |
| yet Love is weake when feares are strong as hee. |
| Tis not all spirit pure and braue |
| If mixture it of feare, shame, honor haue |
| Perchance, as Torches wch must ready bee |
| Men light and put out: so thou dost with mee. |
| Thou cam'st to kendle go'st to come, then I |
| Will dreame that hope agayne, but else would dye
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[CW: O doe not___] |