Her shepherd cheered, of her enamoured less

Than I of thee.”

Fletcher, in the “Faithful Shepherdess,” tells:

“How the pale Phœbe, hunting in a grove,

First saw the boy Endymion, from whose eyes

She took eternal fire that never dies;

How she conveyed him softly in a sleep,

His temples bound with poppy, to the steep

Head of old Latmos, where she stoops each night,

Gilding the mountain with her brother’s light,