"To His Coy Mistress"
By Andrew Marvell

Transcription and markup by Students of Marymount University, Tonya Howe

Sources

London : Printed for Robert Boulter, 1681Page image sourced from the 1681 edition housed in theBritish Library, which also makes available an early manuscript version of the poem.Online: EEBO TCPn.d.Full text of Miscellaneous Poems is available via EEBO TCP.

Editorial Statements

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Original spelling and capitalization is retained, though the long s has been silently modernized and ligatured forms are not encoded.

Hyphenation has not been retained, except where necessary for the sense of the word.

Page breaks have been retained. Catchwords, signatures, and running headers have not. Where pages break in the middle of a word, the complete word has been indicated prior to the page beginning.

Materials have been transcribed from and checked against first editions, where possible. See the Sources section.

Citation

Marvell, Andrew. "To His Coy Mistress". Miscellaneous Poems, Printed for Robert Boulter, 1681 , p 19-20 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthology.lib.virginia.edu/work/Marvell/marvell-mistress. Accessed: 2024-11-23T09:45:18.878Z