And where imprisoned in so sweet a cage
A soul might well be pleased to pass an age.
[547] Cowley has a couplet not unlike his, Davideis, i. 80:
Where their vast court the mother-waters keep,
And undisturbed by moons in silence sleep.—Wakefield.
[548] Duke's translation of Juvenal, Sat. iv.:
Without one virtue to redeem his fame.—Wakefield.
[549] Dryden, Ovid's Amor. ii. 19:
But thou dull husband of a wife too fair.—Wakefield.
[550] Lord Kames objects to the false antithesis between cold flesh and mental warmth.
[551] Milton, Comus, ver. 753:
Love-darting eyes or tresses like the morn.—Wakefield.