2810Yet thought she not death could a period set,
Unless he did some strange advantage get.
'He's young and lusty: every vein does swell
With aqua-vitae, coral juice of life;
His skill in magic else can frame a spell
To distance meagre death and Atrop's knife.
Yet love gives birth to fear: I'll send to search
The lion's flinty bed, and vulture's perch.
I and my woman will attend the quest,
Veiled in disguises of some country lasses;