And made him season first the brazen cow.

A rightful doom, the laws of nature cry,

’Tis, the artificers of death should die.’

Dryden, Ovid’s Art of Love, I. 737–40.

“In many a winding bout

Of linked dulness long drawn-out.”[[69]]

‘Of Britain’s Court ... a proud assemblage there,

Her Statesmen, and her Warriors, and her Fair.’

Southey, Carmen Nuptiale, The Dream, Stanza 16.

‘That Love will not submit to be controlled