For I am in it, he for me doth swim.

Rich, fruitful love, that, doubling self estates,

Elixir-like contracts, though separates!

Dear place, I kiss thee, and do welcome thee,

As from Leander ever sent to me."

FOOTNOTES:

[45] Old eds. "improving."

[46] "He calls Phœbus the god of gold, since the virtue of his beams creates it."—Marginal note in the Isham copy.

[47] The reader will remember how grimly Lady Macbeth plays upon this word:—

"I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal: