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P. 683. (14)

"Who glaz'd with crystal gate the glowing roses

That flame through water which their hue encloses."

So the lines are pointed in the quarto, except that it has a comma after “roses :" and I now regret that, not having collated the quarto when I first published Shakespeare's Poems, I allowed this passage to stand with the punctuation of Malone,

“Who, glaz❜d with crystal, gate the glowing roses

That flame," &c.—

(There is something like the above in Byron's Childe Harold, c. iv. 28,—

"gently flows

The deep-dy'd Brenta, where their hues instil

The odorous purple of a new-born rose,

Which streams upon her stream, and glass'd within it glows," &c.)

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Here the quarto has "Or sounding paleness," &c.; and in the last line of this stanza "sound at tragick showes." See vol. v. p. 88, note (67).

THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM.

VOL. VI.

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THE

PASSIONATE PILGRIM.(1)

I.

SWEET Cytherea, sitting by a brook
With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green,
Did court the lad with many a lovely look,-
Such looks as none could look but beauty's queen.
She told him stories to delight his ear;

She show'd him favours to allure his eye;

To win his heart, she touch'd him here and there,—
Touches so soft still conquer chastity.

But whether unripe years did want conceit,
Or he refus'd to take her figur'd proffer,
The tender nibbler would not touch the bait,

But smile and jest at every gentle offer:

Then fell she on her back, fair queen, and toward: He rose and ran away,-ah, fool too froward!

II.

Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn,
And scarce the herd gone to the hedge for shade,
When Cytherea, all in love forlorn,

A longing tarriance for Adonis made
Under an osier growing by a brook,

A brook where Adon us'd to cool his spleen:

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