Y quan de otra manera
Lo que en tu falso pecho se escondia.
Obras de Garcilasso de la Vega, ed. Azara, Madrid, 1765, 12mo, p. 5.
Something of the same idea and turn of phrase occurs in Mendoza’s Epistle to Boscan, which will be noticed hereafter.
[783] Odyss. T. 518-524. Moschus, too, has it, and Virgil; but it is more to the present purpose to say, that it is found in Boscan’s “Leandro.”
Qual suele el ruyseñor, con triste canto,
Quexarse, entre las hojas encondido,
Del duro laborador, que cautamente
Le despojo su caro y dulce nido