_2 Cup._ What can I turn other than a Fury itself to see thy impudence? If I be a shadow, what is substance? was it not I that yesternight waited on the bride into the nuptial chamber, and, against the bridegroom came, made her the throne of love? had I not lighted my torches in her eyes, planted my mother’s roses in 5 her cheeks; were not her eye-brows bent to the fashion of my bow, and her looks ready to be loosed thence, like my shafts? had I not ripened kisses on her lips, fit for a Mercury to gather, and made her language sweeter than his upon her tongue? was not the girdle about her, he was to untie, my mother’s, wherein all the joys and 10 delights of love were woven? _1 Cup._ And did not I bring on the blushing bridegroom to taste those joys? and made him think all stay a torment? did I not shoot myself into him like a flame, and made his desires and his graces equal? were not his looks of power to have kept the night 15 alive in contention with day, and made the morning never wished for? Was there a curl in his hair, that I did not sport in, or a ring of it crisped, that might not have become Juno’s fingers? his very undressing, was it not Love’s arming? did not all his kisses charge? and every touch attempt? but his words, were they not 20 feathered from my wings, and flew in singing at her ears, like arrows tipt with gold? In the above passages the chief correspondences to be noted are as follows: 1. _Ch._ 5. 17; _U._ 36. 3-4; _Challenge_ 6. Cf. also _Ch._ 9. 17: Eyebrows bent, like Cupid’s bow. 2. _Ch._ 5. 25-6; _U._ 36. 9-10; _DA._ 2. 6. 86-7; _Gipsies_ 17-8; _Challenge_ 8. 3. _Ch._ 5. 21-2; _U._ 36. 7-8; _DA._ 2. 6. 82-3; _Gipsies_ 15-6; _Challenge_ 5-6. 4. _Ch._ 5. 41; _Challenge_ 9-10. 5. _U._ 36. 5-6; _DA._ 2. 6. 77-82; _Challenge_ 17-8. Cf. also _Ch._ 9. 9-12: Young I’d have him too, and fair, Yet a man; with crisped hair, Cast in thousand snares and rings, For love’s fingers, and his wings. 6. _U._ 36. 21; _DA._ 1. 6. 132. 7· _U._ 36. 1-2; _Gipsies_ 13-4; _Challenge_ 5. 8. _U._ 36. 22-3; _DA._ 2. 6. 64-5 9. _DA._ 2. 6. 84-5; _Ch._ 9. 19-20: Even nose, and cheek withal, Smooth as is the billiard-ball. 10. _Gipsies_ 19-20; _Ch._ 1. 23-4: Till she be the reason, why, All the world for love may die. =2. 6. 72 These sister-swelling brests.= ‘This is an elegant and poetical rendering of the _sororiantes mammae_ of the Latins, which Festus thus explains: _Sororiare puellarum mammae dicuntur, cum primum tumescunt_.’--G. =2. 6. 76 SN.= ‘Liberties very similar to these were, in the poet’s time, permitted by ladies, who would have started at being told that they had foregone all pretensions to delicacy.’--G.