Vict. It cannot, if I measure yours by mine;

Or, if extinguished, like a trail of smoke

From a wax taper, soon would light again.

Alph. 'Tis so; for when I say I will not love,

Then I love most. Farewell, my only joy!

I go to hide me from the world and you.

Vict. As, when the sun is down,

His light is clipt into a thousand stars,

So your sweet image, though you shine not on me,

Will gild the horror of the night, and make