Thou, whose sole name all passions doth comprise, Youngest and oldest of the Deities; Born without parents, whose unbounded reign Moves the firm earth, fixeth the floating main, Inverts the course of heaven; and from the deep Awakes those souls that in dark Lethe sleep, By thy mysterious chains seeking t' unite, Once more, the long-since torn Hermaphrodite. He, who thy willing pris'ner long was vow'd, And uncompell'd beneath thy sceptre bow'd, 10 Returns at last in thy soft fetters bound, With victory, though not with freedom crown'd: And, of his dangers pass'd a grateful sign, Suspends this tablet at thy numerous shrine. [_The Dedication._ In 1647 printed at p. 49 with the title 'Conclusion, to Love', and obviously intended to end that collection, but a number of unpaged leaves were subsequently added containing the complimentary verses addressed to Fletcher and others. The following variants occur: 11 'by thy kind power unbound'. 12 'At least with freedom, though not conquest crown'd'. 14 'Suspends these papers'. Stanley also appended a list of Greek quotations justifying the cento. There is an intrinsic interest attaching to them in that they _may_ have suggested a similar process to Gray. A further comparison-contrast may also interest some as to the lines themselves--that of the famous and magnificent opening of Mr. Swinburne's _Tristram of Lyonesse_. The notes annotate the following phrases:--1 '(_a_) all passions', 2 '(_b_) Youngest and (_c_) oldest', 3 '(_d_) Born', 4 '(_e_) Moves', 7 '(_f_) By thy mysterious ...' The Greek has been slightly corrected in spelling and accents. (_a_) Alexis apud Athenaeum: [Greek: synenênegmenos Pantachothen en heni topô poll' eidê pherôn, Hê tolma men gar andros, hê de deilia Gynaikos], &c. Sophocles: [Greek: Kypris ou Kypris monon, All' esti pantôn onomatôn epônymos]. (_b_) Plato, _Sympos._: [Greek: Phêmi neôtaton auton einai theôn, kai aei neon.] (_c_. _d_) Plato: [Greek: To gar en tois presbytatois einai tôn theôn timion. Tekmêrion de toutou: goneis gar erôtos out' eisin, oute legontai hyp' oudenos oute idiôtou oute poiêtou.] (_e_) Oppian. _Cyneg._ 2: [Greek: Gaia pelei statherê, beleessi de soisi doneitai Astatos epleto pontos, atar sy ge kai ton epêxas; Êlythes eis aithêr', oiden de se makros Olympos. Deimainei de se panta, kai ouranos eurys hyperthe Gaiês hossa t' enerthe kai ethnea lygra kamontôn Hoi lêthês men aphyssan hypo stoma nêpathes hydôr.]