With Hora play’d; Hora, her herald fair,

That lays the soft necessity of Love

On maidens’ eyelids, and with tender care

Marketh the hour, as in all works is fit:

And happy they in love who time outwit,

Fondly constrainèd in her season rare.

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But he with garrulous and laughing tongue

Broke up his news; how Eros, fallen sick,

Lay tossing on his bed, to frenzy stung