And from her passage those fat vapours rent, That being not throughly rarified to rain, Melted like pitch, as blue as any vein; 340 And scalding tempests made the earth to shrink Under their fervour, and the world did think In every drop a torturing spirit flew, It pierc'd so deeply, and it burn'd so blue. Betwixt all this and Hero, Hero held Leander's picture, as a Persian shield; And she was free from fear of worst success: The more ill threats us, we suspect the less: As we grow hapless, violence subtle grows, Dumb, deaf, and blind, and comes when no man knows. 350 FOOTNOTES: [70] Picture. [71] "This conceit was suggested to Chapman by a passage in Skelton's _Phyllyp Sparowe_: "But whan I was sowing his beke, Methought, my sparow did speke, And opened his prety byll, Saynge, Mayd, ye are in wyll Agayne me for to kyll, Ye prycke me in the head.' --_Works_, I, 57, ed. Dyce."--_Dyce._ [72] Affections. [73] "This description of the fisherman, as well as the picture which follows it, are borrowed (with alterations) from the first _Idyl_ of Theocritus."--_Dyce._ [74] "Eyas" is the name for an unfledged hawk. "Eyas thoughts" would mean "thoughts not yet full-grown,--immature." Dyce thinks the meaning of "eyas" here may be "restless." (Old eds. "yas.") [75] A monosyllable. [76] Some eds. give "them, then they burned as blood." [77] Approaching catastrophe. [78] Some eds. "and." [79] Used transitively. [80] Some eds. "Leanders." [81] Shakespeare uses the verb "slubber" in the sense of "perform in a slovenly manner" (_Merchant of Venice_, ii. 8, "Slubber not business for my sake"). [82] Companions, yoke-mates. [83] Gr. [Greek: hÍdonÍ]. [84] From Lat. _crista_? [85] Prune. [86] Gr. [Greek: leukotÍs]. [87] Gr. [Greek: dapsilÍs]. [88] Some eds. read "Coyne and impure." [89] From Gr. [Greek: oiktos]? [90] Some eds. "in." [91] "A compound, probably, from [Greek: erÙs] and [Greek: nosos] or [Greek: nousos] _Ionice_." Ed. 1821. THE FIFTH SESTIAD. _The Argument of the Fifth Sestiad._ Day doubles his accustom'd date, As loath the Night, incens'd by Fate, Should wreck our lovers. Hero's plight; Longs for Leander and the night: Which ere her thirsty wish recovers, She sends for two betrothËd lovers, And marries them, that, with their crew, Their sports, and ceremonies due, She covertly might celebrate, With secret joy her own estate. 10 She makes a feast, at which appears The wild nymph Teras, that still bears An ivory lute, tells ominous tales, And sings at solemn festivals.