They say, Jove laughs.—“Romeo and Juliet.”

Christopher Marlowe died in 1593, and the earliest quarto edition of Romeo and Juliet appeared in 1597.

Happy the man who his whole time doth bound

Within the enclosure of his little ground.

Cowley, “Claudian.”

Happy the man whose wish and care

A few paternal acres bound,

Content to breathe his native air

In his own ground. Pope, “Solitude.”

Eve, in “Paradise Lost,” addressing Adam, says: