Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers / an exposition of their similarities of throught and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616

by Henry Green

Whereupon it made this threne

To the phœnix and the dove,

Co-supremes and stars of love,

As chorus to their tragic scene.”

The “threne,” or Lamentation (l. 53, vol. ix. p. 672), then follows,—

“Beauty, truth and rarity

Grace in all simplicity,

Here enclosed in cinders lie.

Death is now the phœnix’ nest;

And the turtle’s loyal breast