The future states of both are left to faith,

For authors fear description might disparage

The worlds to come of both, or fall beneath,

And then both worlds would punish their miscarriage;

So leaving each their priest and prayer-book ready,

They say no more of Death or of the Lady.[172]

X.

The only two that in my recollection,

Have sung of Heaven and Hell, or marriage, are

Dante[173] and Milton,[174] and of both the affection