A grave her bones hides: on her corps' great grave,

The little stones these little verses have.60

This tomb approves I pleased my mistress well

My mouth in speaking did all birds excell.

FOOTNOTES:

[264] Not in Isham copy or ed. A.

[265] Dyce remarks that Marlowe's copy had "ales mihi missus" for "imitatrix ales."

[266] So Dyce for "goodly" of the old eds. ("piæ volucres").

[267] Shrill.

[268] So Dyce for "not" of the old eds.