His Mistress to Him at His Farewell

You may vow I'll not forget

To pay the debt

Which to thy memory stands as due

As faith can seal it you.

— Take then tribute of my tears;

So long as I have fears

To prompt me, I shall ever

Languish and look, but thy return see never.

Oh then to lessen my despair,

Print thy lips into(the air,

So by this

Means, I may kiss thy kiss,

Whenas some kind

Wind

Shall hither waft it: — And, in lieu,

My lips shall send a thousand back to you.