Makes him speak wars, she love, from under th' hearse.

Long since did Hellespont gulp in Leander,

When he presumed on naked breast to wander.

Hero's watch-candle's out; they vanished quite.

420Yet Ovid says all was but yesternight.

A great while since the cheating miller stole

The scholars' meal by a quadruple toll:

They gave him th' hornbook, taught his daughter Greek,

Yet look in Chaucer—done the other week.

Ir'n-sinewed Talus with his steely flail