All again would chaos be.”
In “The Barriers” where Truth and Opinion—a division of the state of knowing according to its degree of certainty common in Plato as knowledge and opinion (“Republic,” V. 476–478)—hold a discussion on marriage, an angel declares that
“Eternal Unity behind her [i.e. Truth] shines,
That fire and water, earth and air combines.”
Here under the name of Unity the true nature of love is indicated.
In Drayton’s seventh eclogue Batte replies to a charge of cruelty against love which is made by his fellow-shepherd, Borril, with the
“substancyall ryme
that to thy teeth sufficiently shall proove
there is no power to be compard to love.”
His argument is that love is the great bond of the universe.