But true-sweet beauty liv'd and dy'd with him;"
and again, when reproaching the apathy of her companion,—
"O learn to love; the lesson is but plain,
And, once made perfect, never lost again."
Nor are there wanting passages in which energy and force are very skilfully combined with melody and rhythm; of the subsequent extracts, which are truly excellent for their vigorous construction, the lines in Italics present us with the point and cadence of the present day. Venus, endeavouring to excite the affection of Adonis, who is represented
——————— "more lovely than a man,
More white and red than doves or roses are,"
tells him,
"I have been woo'd, as I entreat thee now,
Even by the stern and direful god of war,