The starry welkin cover thou anon

[357] With drooping fog, as black as Acheron;

And lead these testy rivals so astray,

As one come not within another’s way.

360 Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,

Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;

And sometime rail thou like Demetrius;

And from each other look thou lead them thus.

Till o’er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep

365 With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep: