Then did he set her by that snowy one,
Like the true saint beside the image set,
Of both their beauties to make paragone
And trial whether should the honour get:
Streightway so soone as both together met,
The enchaunted damzell vanish'd into nought;
Her snowy substance melted as with heat,
Ne of that goodly hew remayned ought
But the emptie girdle which about her wast was wrought.
SPENCER.]
[Footnote 6: Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. PROVERBS.
Qua non gravior mortalibus addita cura,
SPES ubi longa venit.
STATIUS.]
[Footnote 7: It is not certainly known under what form the Penates were worshipped. Some assert, as wooden or brazen rods shaped like trumpets: others, that they were represented as young men.]
[Footnote 8: The Saturnalia.]