Beauty’s ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and on thy cheeks,
And Death’s pale flag is not advanced there.—Romeo and Juliet, V. 3,
is closely imitated by Chamberlain:—
The rose had lost
His ensign in her cheeks; and tho’ it cost
Pains nigh to death, the lily had alone
Set his pale banners up.—Pharonidas.
A dream