Is hee a witt? / Then how many raptures does hee talke a day? is hee transported
wth poeticke rage? / When was he stiled Imperial Witt? Who are / ye prince Electors in his
monarchy? / Can he like Celtike Hercules, wth chaines / of his divine tongue draw ye
gallant tribe / through every street, whilst ye grave senator / points at him as he walks
in triumph, and /doth wish wth halfe his wealth hee might bee young, / to spend it all
in sacke, to heare him talke / eternall sonnets to his Mrs? ha? who loves not verse is damn’d.
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (1.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

ye midwife wrapt my head in a sheet of Sr Phillip Sidney yt inspir'd mee, and my nurse
descended from old Chaucer
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (1.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

A. you should teach him some witt.
By Goldsworth, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (1.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

xx hees nothing but noise empty of reality and worth.
By Chrisolina, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (1.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

There's soe much sweetness in them, such a troope / of graces waiting on her words and actions,/ I am divided; / and like ye trembling needle of a dyall, / my hearts afraied to fixe, in such a plenty / I have noe starre to saile by.
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (1.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

Fond men! prove it in mee, thou quiverd boy, / yt love wth equall flame 2 mistresses, / I will beeleave thee a god, and kisse thy dart, / furnish my bo= wth another heart
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (1.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

Act 2
Fellowes yt use to make verses on their Mrs haire, and Acrosticke on my name
By Eugenia, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (2.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

All other women / are but like pictures in a gallery / set out off to the eye, and have no excellency/
but in their distance; but these two, farre of /shall tempt thee to just wonder, and drawne
neere / can satisfie thy narrowest curiosity: / ye stocke of a woman hath not two more left to
rivall them in graces
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (2.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

Hast thou not seene the woodbine / that hony-dropping tree, and ye loved bryer, / Embrace
wth their chast boughs, twisting themselves, / and weaving a greene net to catch ye birds /
till it doe seeme one body, while ye flowers / wantonly runne to meet and kisse each
other? / so twas betwixt us two.
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (2.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

ye pelican loves not her young soe well, yt diggs upon her brest an hundred springs /
when in her blood shee bathes ye innocent birds / as I doe my Aurelia.
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (2.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

Engage mee in business? nay thrust me o'th' lime-twigs, to set you / at liberty when
your owne wings were glued / to th' bush, and d'ye reward mee a this fashion
By Thornay, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (2.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

I tooke her ith' nicke, in ye precise minute.
By Thornay, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (2.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

Act 3.
When shall wee matrimony it?
By Gervase Simple, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

The glass yt tells ye hower, hath not more sands, then their bee ladies waite to catche mee
up; they allow mee but one minute a weeke, to say my praiers.
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

I doe beare no great age in her knowledge: he, I have not knowen her long.
By Yongrave, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

Let me bathe here eternally / and study new Arithmeticke to count our blessings
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79r

you do ill / to interrupt our joyes: upon this lip / yt deserves all should open to commend it, /
I seale a contract of my heart for ever, / I will be nothing when I am not thine.
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

A. Was I ever married.
By Thornay, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

B. no, but heaven and Angels / are witnesses you did exchange a
faith / wth one yt mournes a virgin and a widow, who now dispairing of yr love
to shew how willing shee's to die, doth every houre dystill / part of her soule in teares.
By Yongrave, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

Would wee were to skirmish in a sawpit together.
By Thornay, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

Shee has purity enough for all her sexe, / and this attended wth soe many vertues, /
as but to wish her more, it selfe were sinne.
By Yongrave, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

By your beauty, / by those faire eyes yt never kild till now, / make mee soe happy, but
to know what cuase / inclines you to suspect.
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (3.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

Act: 4
Let me but live to see him, and I write my ambition satisfied.
By Eugenia, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (4.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

Indeed I love him still and shall doe ever, / nor had I now returned to life, but yt / I had not tooke
my leave of him (Shee sounding, when shee came to herselfe againe spake these words)
By Eugenia, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (4.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

Weele have an excellent wellgovernd commonwealth / a delicate Utopia / no idela man shall
live wth in our state: do you marke? they are ye mouthes of ye republike
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (4.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

many gentlemen are not, as in ye daies of understanding, / now satisfied wth out a figge, wch e>
since / they cannot, wth their honour call for, after / ye play, they looke to have't servd up ith
middle: your dance is ye best language in some comoedies; / a scene / expressd wth life
of art, and squared to nature, / as dul and flegmatike poetry.
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (4.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

What are you melancholy? What hath hung plummets on thy nimble soule?
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (4.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

by Parnassus
you must not bee soe headhung.
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (4.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

you might have had mee when I was offered; tis none of my fault if you fall to eating of chalk
and die of ye black jaundise.
By Gervase Simple, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (4.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

(speaking in dirision of a wench)
Here is ye what doe you call what-do-you-call it of my heart.
By Gervase Simple, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (4.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

Act:5
I doe / forgive my grifes, and thinke they have beene modest, / and gentle sufferings, who can
merit such / a joy; yt has not felt a world of sorrow.
By Eugenia, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

But you are mercifull and imitate ye eternall nature.
By Thornay, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (5.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

A.
B.
As I take it Sr I have seen you.
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (5.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

A.
B.
A.
Will you not faile.
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (5.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

I have noe other gratitude but this: / live but a weeke ile send you an ode, or die / Ile
write yr Epitaph.
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (5.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

Wee are fooles indeed we are / to dote soe much upon them, and betray / ye glory
of our creac̄on, to serve / a female pride: wee were borne free, and had /
from ye great maker roiall priveledge / most brave immunities: but since have
made / forfeit of o charter.
By Gerard, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (5.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v

Harmonious straines come shame ye spheares / Charme wth heavenlier notes [our] eares.
By Caperwit, in The Changes, or Love in a Maze (5.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 79v