Her fresh-heat blood cast figures in her eyes,

And she suppos'd she saw in Neptune's skies

How her star wander'd, wash'd in smarting brine,

For her love's sake, that with immortal wine

Should be embath'd, and swim in more heart's-ease

Than there was water in the Sestian seas.340

Then said her Cupid-prompted spirit, "Shall I

Sing moans to such delightsome harmony?

Shall slick-tongu'd Fame, patch'd up with voices rude,

The drunken bastard of the multitude