And brighter than the sacred flame; The boy adorn'd with modesty, Yet armed so with majesty, That if the Thunderer againe His eagle sends, she stoops in vaine.<37.14> Besides his innocence he tooke A sword and casket, and did looke Like Love in armes; he wrote but five, Yet spake eighteene; each grace did strive, And twenty Cupids thronged forth, Who first should shew his prettier worth. But oh, the Nymph! Did you ere know Carnation mingled with snow?<37.15> Or have you seene the lightning shrowd, And straight breake through th' opposing cloud? So ran her blood; such was its hue; So through her vayle her bright haire flew, And yet its glory did appeare But thinne, because her eyes were neere. Blooming boy, and blossoming mayd, May your faire sprigges be neere betray'd To<37.16> eating worme or fouler storme; No serpent lurke to do them harme; No sharpe frost cut, no North-winde teare, The verdure of that fragrant hayre; But<37.17> may the sun and gentle weather, When you are both growne ripe together, Load you with fruit, such as your Father From you with all the joyes doth gather: And may you, when one branch is dead, Graft such another in its stead, Lasting thus ever in your prime, 'Till th' sithe is snatcht away from Time.<37.18> <37.1> In the MS. copy this poem exhibits considerable variations, and is entitled "Gratiana's Eulogy." <37.2> ARIGO or ARRIGO is the Venetian form of HENRICO. I have no means of identifying CHLORIS or GRATIANA; but AMYNTOR was probably, as I have already suggested, Endymion Porter, and ARIGO was unquestionably no other than Henry Jermyn, or Jarmin, who, though no poet, was, like his friend Porter, a liberal and discerning patron of men of letters. "Yet when thy noble choice appear'd, that by Their combat first prepar'd thy victory: ENDYMION and ARIGO, who delight In numbers--" Davenant's MADAGASCAR, 1638 (Works, 1673, p. 212). See also p. 247 of Davenant's Works. Jermyn's name is associated with that of Porter in the noblest dedication in our language, that to DAVENANT'S POEMS, 1638, 12mo. "If these poems live," &c. <37.3> This and the five next lines are not in MS. which opens with "Her lips," &c. <37.4> So original; MS. reads OF. <37.5> This and the next thirteen lines are not in MS. <<37.6>> i.e. tribute. <37.7> FAIRE--MS. <37.8> HER FAIRE--MS. The story of the phoenix was very popular, and the allusions to it in the early writers are almost innumerable. "My labour did to greater things aspire, To find a PHOENIX melted in the fire, Out of whose ashes should spring up to birth A friend"-- POEMS OF Ben Johnson jun., by W. S., 1672, p. 18. <37.9> This and the next eleven lines are not in MS. <37.10> The MS. reads SHE. <37.11> The MS. reads for BUT TH' "the." <37.12> In the houses of such as could afford the expense, the walls of rooms were formerly lined with tapestry instead of paper. <37.13> So MS.; original has A.