...youth, And worse essays proved thee my best of love. 8 Now all is done, have what shall have no end. Mine appetite I never more will grind On newer proof,...to try an older friend, A god in love, to whom I am confined. 12 Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast....

...youth, And worst essays prov'd thee my best of love. Now all is done, have what shall have no end: Mine appetite I never more will grind On newer proof,...deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners breeds, Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost...

...those who would read these poems as examples of straightforward irony - if only because of its strange Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most, most loving breast.1 That reiterated 'most' certainly seems to belong to the world of irony and sarcasm. Yet it...