Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2] / Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age

by Nathan Drake

—— "a great froste in a water rounes

And after a bytter wynde comes

Whiche gothe through the soules with yre."

In the Songes and Sonnets, also, by Lord Surrey, and others, which were first published in 1557, the pains of hell are depicted as partaking of the like vicissitude:—

"The soules that lacked grace

Which lye in bitter paine,

Are not in suche a place,

As foolish folke do faine;

Tormented all with fyre,

And boyle in leade againe—