Why am I sad, when Proserpine is found,

And Juno-like with Dis reigns under ground?

Festival days ask Venus, songs, and wine,

These gifts are meet to please the powers divine.

FOOTNOTES:

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

[416] Threshing-floor ("area").

[417] Marlowe has made the school-boy's mistake of confusing "caneo" and "cano."

[418] The original has

"Quod tibi secubitus tristes, dea flava, fuissent,