Folding their twining[669] arms, as oft we see

Turtle-taught lovers either other close,

Lending to dulness feeling sympathy;

And as a costly valance o'er a bed,

So did their garland-tops the brook o'erspread.

Their leaves, that differ'd both in shape and show,

Though all were green, yet difference such in green,

Like to the checker'd bent of Iris' bow,

Prided the running main, as it had been—

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