[945] Of course the Song falls into three stanzas, with divisions at ll. 35, 39.—Gen. Ed.
[946] These lines illustrate well how the memory of Shakespeare caught and held the best in the lines of others. Here, scattered through several lines, is the first line of the well-known song in Cymbeline:—
3 4
"None but the larke so shrill and cleare.
5 6 7
How at heavens gats she claps her wings,
8
The morne not waking till she sings!
1 2
Heark, heark, with what a pretty throat
Poore Robin Red-breast tunes his note!"
[947] Not only enraptured, but with reference to the story of Philomela, Ovid, Meta. VI.
[948] Warbler.
[949]'Gate' as in Shakespeare? The 's' from 'she'?
[950] For the original of this see Lives of Philosophers, VI. 426.
[951] Studio of Apelles.
[952] Bl. and later editors, Apelles alone.
[953] "Be content to live with thy love unexpressed, and to die with it undiscovered."