What man was he, what modeller or painter,
Who first did represent young Love as wing'd?
He was a man fit only to draw swallows.
Quite ignorant of the character of the god.
For he's not light, nor easy for a man
Who's once by him been master'd, to shake off;
But he's a heavy and tenacious master.
How, then, can he be spoken of as wing'd?
The man's a fool who such a thing could say.
And Alexis, in his Man Lamenting, says—