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,