As stills from roses when the flowers are gone.”
Philip Massinger. Roman Actor, act iv. sc. 2.
“But that thou, whom oft I’ve seen
To personate a gentleman, noble, wise,
Faithful and gainsome, and what virtues else
The poet pleases to adorn you with;
But that (as vessels still partake the odour
Of the sweet precious liquors they contain’d)
Thou must be really in some degree
The thing thou dost present.”