Rose, che l' arte invidiosa mira. &c.
Alteremente umile
Te chiudi ne' tuoi cari alti soggiorni.
[124] The daughter of Louis XII. She was closely imprisoned during twelve years, on suspicion of favouring the early reformers.
[125] Ganymede.
[126] Sonnet 37.
[127] Sonnet 29.
[128] I am told the original idea is in Plato; prettier, however, than either, was the speech of a modern lover, whose mistress was gazing pensively on a star: "Ne la regardez pas tant, chère amie!—je ne puis pas te la donner!"
[129] The Canzono which is, I believe, esteemed the finest of those addressed to Leonora,