Subject and servile to all discontents,
As dry combustious matter is to fire:

Sith in his prime Death doth my love destroy,
They that love best their loves shall not enjoy."

By this, the boy that by her side lay kill'd
Was melted like a vapour from her sight;
And in his blood, that on the ground lay spill'd,
A purple flower sprung up, chequer'd with white,
Resembling well his pale cheeks, and the blood
Which in round drops upon their whiteness stood.

She bows her head the new-sprung flower to smell,
Comparing it to her Adonis' breath;

And says within her bosom it shall dwell,
Since he himself is reft from her by Death:

She crops the stalk, and in the breach appears
Green dropping sap, which she compares to tears.

"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
To wither in my breast as in his blood.

"Here was thy father's bed, here in my breast;
Thou art the next of blood, and 'tis thy right:
Lo, in this hollow cradle take thy rest,

My throbbing heart shall rock thee day and night : There shall not be one minute in an hour

Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love's flower."

Thus weary of the world, away she hies,
And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid

Their mistress, mounted, through the empty skies
In her light chariot quickly is convey'd ;

Holding their course to Paphos, 13 where their queen
Means to immure herself and not be seen.

18 Paphos was a city of Cyprus, famous for the temple of Venus, and as the chief seat of her worship.

CRITICAL NOTES.

Page 293. His eye, which glisters scornfully like fire,

Shows his hot courage and his high desire. - The old copies read "which scornfully glisters like fire." The correction is Sewell's.

P. 300. A smile recures the wounding of a frown;

But blessed bankrupt, that by loss so thriveth!— The old copies have love instead of loss. The correction is Walker's; and surely the context approves it.

P. 308. Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles,

How he outruns the wind, &c.—The old copies read "to overshut his troubles." The correction was proposed by Steevens, and is adopted by Dyce and the Cambridge Editors.

P. 315. Some catch her by the neck, some kiss her face,

Some twine about her thigh to make her stay.—The old copies

have twin'd and twind instead of twine.

P. 321. As falcon to the lure, away she flies; &c.
The earlier editions have faulcons.

of 1600.

P. 321. So at this bloody view her eyes are fled

So the edition

Into the deep-dark cabins of her head. So Walker. The old

copies have his instead of this.

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