Book II.

Hic pietatis honos? sic nos in sceptra reponis!

—Virg.

Her Guilford clasps her, beautiful in death,

And with a kiss recalls her fleeting breath,

To tapers thus, which by a blast expire,

A lighted taper, touch'd, restores the fire:

She rear'd her swimming eye, and saw the light,

And Guilford too, or she had loath'd the sight:

Her father's death she bore, despis'd her own,