VERSES AMONG THE ADDITIONAL POEMS TO CHESTER'S LOVE'S MARTYR, 1601. LET the bird of loudest lay, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou, shrieking harbinger, Foul pre-currer of the fiend, Augur of the fever's end, To this troop come thou not nea 1 There is a curious coincidence in a passage in The Tem pest: "Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix throne." And thou, treble-dated crow, Mengst our mourners shalt thou Here the anthem doth commence · In a mutual flame from hence. So they loved, as love in twain Hearts remote, yet not asunder; So between them love did shine, 1 Can, knows. go. Property was thus appalled, That the self was not the same; Single nature's double name Neither two nor one was called. Reason, in itself confounded, That it cried how true a twain Whereupon it made this threne1 THRENOS. Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed in cinders lie Death is now the phoenix' nest; And the turtle's loyal breast Leaving no posterity:'Twas not their infirmity It was married chastity. 1 Threne, funereal song. |