For when we must resign our vital breath, Our loves by Fate benighted, We by this friendship shall survive in death, Even in divorce united. 20 Weak Love, through fortune or distrust, In time forgets to burn, But this pursues us to the urn, And marries either's dust. [_La Belle Confidente._] On this Sir Egerton: 'However far-fetched these ideas may be, there is uncommon elegance and ingenuity in the expression, and polish in the versification.' There is also something more than polish--a _concerted_ effect which 'elegance and ingenuity' do not often reach. In l. 16, 'Cannot' appears in _1647_ for 'Can nor'; 'And' for 'For' in l. 17; and ll. 18, 20 are changed over and run: Even in divorce delighted, . . . . . . Still in the grave united. ] _La Belle Ennemie._ I yield, dear enemy, nor know How to resist so fair a foe! Who would not thy soft yoke sustain, And bow beneath thy easy chain, That with a bondage bless'd might be, Which far transcends all liberty? But since I freely have resign'd At first assault my willing mind, Insult not o'er my captiv'd heart With too much tyranny and art, 10 Lest by thy scorn thou lose the prize Gain'd by the power of thy bright eyes, And thou this conquest thus shalt prove, Though got by Beauty, kept by Love! _The Dream._ LOPE DE VEGA. To set my jealous soul at strife, All things maliciously agree, Though sleep of Death the image be, Dreams are the portraiture of life. I saw, when last I clos'd my eyes, Celinda stoop t' another's will; If specious Apprehension kill, What would the truth without disguise? The joys which I should call mine own, Methought this rival did possess: 10 Like dreams is all my happiness; Yet dreams themselves allow me none. [_The Dream._] The actual and full _In Memoriam_ arrangement is the point of interest here. Stanley, however, is even less successful than the few other seventeenth-century practitioners in getting the full rhythmical sweep of the form into operation. He breaks the circle and so loses the charm.] _To the Lady D._