Of giant sorrowes speake? Burst, dye, bleede,
And leaue poore plaints to vs that shall succeede.
She fell on her loues bosome, hugg'd it fast,
And with Leanders name she breath'd her last.

Neptune for pittie in his armes did take them,
Flung them into the ayre, and did awake them.
Like two sweet birds surnam'd th' Acanthides,
Which we call Thistle-warps, that neere no Seas
Dare euer come, but still in couples flie,
And feede on Thistle tops, to testifie
The hardnes of their first life in their last:
The first in thornes of loue, and sorrowes past,
And so most beautifull their colours show,
As none (so little) like them: her sad brow
A sable veluet feather couers quite,
Euen like the forehead cloths that in the night,
Or when they sorrow, Ladies vse to weare:
Their wings, blew, red and yellow mixt appeare,
Colours, that as we construe colours paint
Their states to life; the yellow shewes their saint,
The deuill Venus left them; blew their truth,
The red and black, ensignes of death and ruth.
And this true honor from their loue-deaths sprung,
They were the first that euer Poet

sung.

FINIS.

Where a correction in the text was made subsequently to the last quarto the name of the editor who first suggested it has been given. Practically all the emendations made by Singer, the first modern editor of the poem, have the support of Dyce & Bullen.

It seems clear that certain lines at the end of the Second Seftyad on Sig. Ez and E2 Verso were printed in the wrong order in the quartos and some re-arrangement of them has been made in all modern editions. We have followed the Clarendon Press Editor and have removed lines 11 to 22 on Sig. E2 of this edition to their present position from that which they occupied immediately after the line beginning "That puls or shakes it "in the original (line 6, Ez verso of this edition). This has entailed the alteration of the catch word on Sig. E2.