Whilst loving thou mayst lovëd be with equall crime.

[90] A reference to Lord Burleigh's hostility to the poet
[91] Might.
[92] At once.
[93] Bass.

THE HOUSE OF SLEEP.

[From the Faerie Queene. Book I. Canto I.]

He, making speedy way through spersëd ayre,

And through the world of waters wide and deepe,

To Morpheus' house doth hastily repaire:

Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe

And low, where dawning day doth never peepe,

His dwelling is; there Tethys his wet bed