But who could less expect from you,
   In whom alone Love lives again? 
   By whom he is restored to men;
And kept, and bred, and brought up true?

His falling temples you have reared,
   The withered garlands ta’en away;
   His altars kept from the decay
That envy wished, and nature feared;

And on them burns so chaste a flame,
   With so much loyalty’s expense,
   As Love, t’ acquit such excellence,
Is gone himself into your name.

And you are he:  the deity
   To whom all lovers are designed,
   That would their better objects find;
Among which faithful troop am I;

Who, as an offering at your shrine,
   Have sung this hymn, and here entreat
   One spark of your diviner heat
To light upon a love of mine;

Which, if it kindle not, but scant
   Appear, and that to shortest view,
   Yet give me leave t’ adore in you
What I, in her, am grieved to want.

Footnotes: 

{11} “So live with yourself that you do not know how ill yow mind is furnished.”

{12} [Greek text]

{14} “A Puritan is a Heretical Hypocrite, in whom the conceit of his own perspicacity, by which he seems to himself to have observed certain errors in a few Church dogmas, has disturbed the balance of his mind, so that, excited vehemently by a sacred fury, he fights frenzied against civil authority, in the belief that he so pays obedience to God.”

{17a} Night gives counsel.

{17b} Plutarch in Life of Alexander.  “Let it not be, O King, that you know these things better than I.”

{19a} “They were not our lords, but our leaders.”

{19b} “Much of it is left also for those who shall be hereafter.”

{19c} “No art is discovered at once and absolutely.”

{22} With a great belly.  Comes de Schortenhien.

{23} “In all things I have a better wit and courage than good fortune.”

{24a} “The rich soil exhausts; but labour itself is an aid.”

{24b} “And the gesticulation is vile.”

{25a} “An end is to be looked for in every man, an animal most prompt to change.”

{25b} Arts are not shared among heirs.

{31a} “More loquacious than eloquent; words enough, but little wisdom.”—­Sallust.

{31b} Repeated in the following Latin.  “The best treasure is in that man’s tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a few words.”—­Hesiod.

{31c} Vid.  Zeuxidis pict.  Serm. ad Megabizum.—­Plutarch.

{32a} “While the unlearned is silent he may be accounted wise, for he has covered by his silence the diseases of his mind.”

{32b} Taciturnity.

{33a} “Hold your tongue above all things, after the example of the gods.”—­See Apuleius.

{33b} “Press down the lip with the finger.”—­Juvenal.