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 sound of music steal in at his ear

As the wind gave it Being: so sweet an air

Would strike a Syren mute and ravish her."

Pourtraying the cell of an Enchantress, he says,

"About the walls lascivious pictures hung,

Such as whereof loose Ovid sometimes sung.

On either side a crew of dwarfish Elves,

Held waxen tapers taller than themselves:

Yet so well shap'd unto their little stature,

So angel-like in face, so sweet in feature;