The Maiden in _The Lover’s Complaint_ (l. 92, vol. ix. p. 638) thus speaks of her early love,— “Small show of man was yet upon his chin; His phœnix down began but to appear, Like unshorn velvet, on that termless skin, Whose bare out-bragg’d the web it seem’d to wear.” Some of the characteristics of the Phœnix are adduced in the dialogue, _Richard III._ (act iv. sc. 4, l. 418, vol. v. p. 606), between Richard III. and the queen or widow of Edward IV. The king is proposing to marry her daughter,— “_Q. Eliz._ Shall I be tempted of the devil thus? _K. Rich._ Ay, if the devil tempt thee to do good. _Queen._ Shall I forget myself, to be myself? _K. Rich._ Ay, if yourself’s remembrance wrong yourself. _Queen._ But thou didst kill my children. _K. Rich._ But in your daughter’s womb I bury them: Where in that nest of spicery, they shall breed Selves of themselves, to your recomforture.” Another instance is from _Antony and Cleopatra_ (act iii. sc. 2, l. 7, vol. ix. p. 64). Agrippa and Enobarbus meet in Cæsar’s ante-chamber, and of Lepidus Enobarbus declares,— “O how he loves Cæsar! _Agrip._ Nay, but how dearly he adores Marc Antony! _Enob._ Cæsar? Why, he’s the Jupiter of men. _Agrip._ What’s Antony? The god of Jupiter. _Enob._ Speak you of Cæsar? How? the nonpareil! _Agrip._ O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!” And in _Cymbeline_ (act i. sc. 6, l. 15, vol. ix. p. 183), on being welcomed by Imogen, Iachimo says, _aside_,— “All of her that is out of door most rich! If she be furnish’d with a mind so rare. She is alone th’ Arabian Bird, and I Have lost the wager.” But the fullest and most remarkable example is from _Henry VIII._ (act v. sc. 5, l. 28, vol. vi. p. 114). Cranmer assumes the gift of inspiration, and prophesies of the new-born child of the king and of Anne Bullen an increase of blessings and of all princely graces,—