"My love possest, in Jason's bosom laid,
Let seas swell high;—I cannot be dismay'd
While I infold my husband in my arms:
Or should I fear, I should but fear his harms."
Englished by Sandys, 1632.]
[gz] This hour decides my doom or thy escape.—[MS.]
[183] {200} [Compare—
"That thought has more of hell than had the former.
Another, and another, and another!"
The Revenge, by Edward Young, act iv.
(Modern British Drama, 1811, ii. 17).]
[ha] {202} Or grazed by wounds he scorned to feel.—[MS.]
[hb] {203} Three MS. variants of these lines were rejected in turn before the text was finally adopted—
(1) { Ah! wherefore did he turn to look I know not why he turned to look
Since fatal was the gaze he took?
So far escaped from death or chain,
To search for her and search in vain:
Sad proof in peril and in pain
How late will Lover's hope remain.
A fourth variant of lines 1046, 1047 was inserted in a revise dated November 16—