Leander's picture, as a Persian shield;
And she was free from fear of worst success:
The more ill threats us, we suspect the less:
As we grow hapless, violence subtle grows,
Dumb, deaf, and blind, and comes when no man knows.350
FOOTNOTES:
[70] Picture.
[71] "This conceit was suggested to Chapman by a passage in Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe:
"But whan I was sowing his beke,
Methought, my sparow did speke,