Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,

And pluck up drowned honor by the locks;

So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear,

Without corrival, all her dignities.

Hen. IV. P. i. A. i. Sc. 3.

[26] See Ovid. Met. vi. 28. Non omnia grandior ætas, Quæ fugiamus, habet; seris venit usus ab annis.

[27] The Scholiast doubts whether these Gods were Castor and Pollux, or Zethus and Amphion, but inclines to the latter. See Herc. Fur. v. 29, 30.

[28] Or, fell with limbs that had never known yoke.—V. Ovid: Met. iii. 10.

Bos tibi, Phœbus ait, solis occurret in arvis,

Nullum passa jugum.