Two glasses, where herself herself beheld A thousand times, and now no more reflect; "Wonder of time," quoth she, "this is my spite, That, thou being dead, the day should yet be light. "Since thou art dead, lo, here I prophesy, That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe. "It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud; "It shall be sparing, and too full of riot, Pluck down the rich, enrich the poor with treasures; "It shall suspect where is no cause of fear; It shall be merciful, and too severe, And most deceiving when it seems most just; "It shall be cause of war and dire events, Sith in his prime death doth my love destroy, By this, the boy that by her side lay kill'd She bows her head, the new-sprung flower to smell, And says, within her bosom it shall dwell, She crops the stalk, and in the breach appears "Poor flower," quoth she, "this was thy father's guise,— Sweet issue of a more sweet-smelling sire, For every little grief to wet his eyes: To grow unto himself was his desire, And so 'tis thine; but know, it is as good. "Here was thy father's bed, here in my breast; My throbbing heart shall rock thee day and night: Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love's flower." Thus weary of the world, away she hies, Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen P. 488. (1) “his braided hanging mane stand on end," &c. "Our author uses mane, as composed of many hairs, as plural. So army, fleet, &c." MALONE.-Perhaps so. P. 502. (2) 66 to overshoot his troubles," &c. Here the old eds. have "ouershut,""—a manifest misprint; which, however, Malone retained, because "to shut up in Shakespeare's age signified to conclude"! P. 507. (3) "the choir of echoes answer so.” See vol. ii. p. 169, note (45). P. 513. (4) "As falcon to the lure, away she flies," &c. So ed. 1600.-The earlier eds. have "As falcons to," &c.; which Mr. Collier is singular in preferring. |