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Their hands the heart, no longer beating, try, 



Or their fair fingers ope th' unwilling eyej 



Another seeking whether yet the breath 



Hangs on the lips, nor quite extinct by death, 



Joins her's to their's, compassionately kind, 



And leaves, unseen, a tender kiss behind. 



But these their cares were vain, for death's cold hand, 



Had clos'd the eyes of all the youthful bandj 



And now their weeping ghosts were seen to gain 



The darksome realms of Pluto's dreary reign : 



With pray'rs and tears stern Charon they implore, 



To take and waft them to the Stygian shore; 



And if or youth or beauty could prevail, 



His breast had melted at their mournful tale. 



The nymphs, with pity mov'd, the gods implor'd 



That to their bodies life might be restor'd 5 



The contrariety of love is also thus depicted in the sign Cancer, fourth 

 look of Paiengenius, translated by Barnaby Googe. 

 . , ,,... if so be that loue weare not 



by God's aduisement right, 

 To euery man apoynced here, 



by limites parted iust: 

 No dout of al might one be loued 



and on them all should lust, 

 And euery man might safe enioy 



the damsel that he likes : 

 But as the fisher doth not take 



the fishes all in dikes ; 

 Nor foalers all the birdes do catch, 

 nor hunters all do kill ; 



But euery one his chance doth take, 



obtaines, and hathe his will j 

 So, loue to euery one is dele 



by God's arbitrement ; 

 So doth the seruaunt, base, ful oft 



his ladj vrel content. 1 * 



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