Rules o'er my soul with fierce dominion.

LOVE.

And Pindar, who was of an exceedingly amorous disposition, says—

Oh may it ever be to me to love,

And to indulge my love, remote from fear;

And do not thou, my mind, pursue a chase

Beyond the present number of your years.

On which account Timon, in his Silli, says—

There is a time to love, a time to wed,

A time to leave off loving;