With bitter fafts, with penitential groans; Love hath chac'd fleep from my enthralled eyes,. And made them watchers of mine own heart's forrow. O gentle Protheus, love's a mighty lord; And hath fo humbled me, as, I confefs, There by which I exalted myself above human paffions or frail, ties, have brought upon me fafts and groans." 7. Ovid fays in the epiftle of Phædra to Hippolitus, Quicquid amor juffit, non eft contemnere tutum : And the old fhepherd, in Paftor Fida, obferves, -Love will be fure before We die, to make us all once feel his pow'r. Otway Fanshaw.. In the Antigone of Sophocles, the chorus fings thus to the honour of love; Έρως ανίκατε μάχαν, &c. God of love, whose boundless sway You in the yielding fair ones eye. Lull'd to repofe fecurely lie; Or o'er the wild waves lightly fly, Thy vengeance, on fuch as contemn thee, to wreak. On downy pinions through the air Bird-like, you cut your pathlefs way: The gods themselves you do not spare: There is no woe (11) to his correction: Love fed by Praife. -Call her divine. Pro. I will not flatter her. Val. O flatter me; for love delights in praise.、 Lover's Wealth.. Not for the world; why, man, fhe is mine own; ; And I as rich in having fuch a jewel, As twenty feas, if all their fand were pearl, True Love jealous. For love, thou know'ft, is full of jealoufy. Love compared to a waxen Image. Now (12) my love is thaw'd, Which like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, SCENE (11) No woe to his, &c.] " No mifery which can be compared to the punishment inflicted by love." Herbert called for the prayers of the liturgy a little before his death, faying, None to them, none to them. J. (12) Now, &c.] Almoft the fame fimile is applied to life departing, in King John; Retaining but a quantity of life, Which bleeds away, e'en as a form of wax Refolveth from its figure 'gainst the fire. . SCENE VI. Unheedful Vows to be broken. Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; SCENE VII. Oppofition to Love increases it. Jul A true devoted pilgrim is not weary Luc. Jul. Better forbear, till Protheus make return. Pity the dearth that I have pined in, By longing for that food fo long a time. Ovid, in his Metamorphofes, uses the fame fimile; Sed ut intabefcere flava, Igne levi cera, matutinave pruinæ, &c. So Spencer, But Addifon. Yet still he wafted as the fnow congeal'd, which poffibly he borrowed from Taffo, Gieru. Lib. 6. 20. S. 136. As against the warmth of Titan's fire See Act 3. Sc. 5. But qualify the fire's extremeft rage, Left it fhould burn above the bounds of reafon, Jul. The more thou damm'ft it up the more it burns:: The current (3) that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'ft, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage;, But when his fair courfe is not hindered, He makes sweet mufic with th' enamel'd stones ; He overtaketh in his pilgrimage; And fo by many winding nooks he strays, Then let me go, and hinder not my courfe ;; A faithful and conftant Lover. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; ACT (13) The current, &c.] So, in Paftor Fido, Ergafto tells Mirtillo, nothing augments love more than fuppreffing and confining it, Mirtillo amor, &c. A&t 1. Sc. z. Sir R. Fanfbaw. Love rages more, the more it is fuppreft. ACT III. SCENE I. Gifts prevalent with Woman. Win (14) her with gifts, if fhe refpect not words; Dumb jewels, often, in their filent kind, More than quick words, do move a woman's mind. Flattery prevalent with Woman. Flatter and praife, commend, extol their graces; Tho' ne'er fo black, fwear they have angels' faces : That man who hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue, he cannot win a woman. A Lover's Banishment. (15) And why not death, rather than living tor ment? To die, is to be banished from myself, And (14) Win, &c.] We are told, and that very beautifully, gifts are of no avail, and by no means regarded in true love. Winter's Tale, A& 4. (15) See Romeo and Juliet, A&t 3. In the 2d A&t, and 3d Scene of The Two Noble Kinfmen, Arcite speaks thus ; Banish'd the kingdom? 'Tis a benefit, A mercy Upon the sweetness of a noble beauty, That nature ne'er exceeded, nor ne'er shall : I know |