[1608]. Cynthia, i. e. Diana, the moon; Ovid, Met. ii. 465.
[1612]. 'To lose one opportunity, in order to gain another.'
[1620]. pure, very; as in Kn. Ta. A 1279.
[1628]. 'Who can hold a thing that tries to get away?'
'An eel and woman,
A learned poet says, unless by th' tail
And with thy teeth thou hold, will either fail.'
The Two Noble Kinsmen, A. iii. sc. 5. l. 49.
[1645]. 'Res est solliciti plena timoris amor;' Ovid, Her. i. 12.
[1667-73]. In Boccaccio, a stanza of a similar character is assigned to Troilus, not to Criseyde.