Unfelt is toil, and summer one green daze,

Till that the king be crowned, and France be free!

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.

I.

The dusky star-set blue of Southern night;

Music and song approaching and receding;

Sweet sudden laughter-showers of masquers leading

Across the moon-white square a merry flight,

With breeze-blown torch and tossing cresset bright;