INTRODUCTORY PIECES. 
9 
Rustling in silk, in a small room close pent, 
And heated e’en to fusion ; made to breathe 
A rank contagious air, and fret at whist, 
Or sit aside to sneer and whisper scandal. 
The same. —milton. 
-Eve separate he spies, 
Veiled in a cloud of fragrance, where she 
stood. 
Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round 
About her glowed ; oft Stooping to support 
Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, 
though gay 
Carnation, purple, azure, or speck’d with gold. 
Hung drooping unsustained ; them she up- 
stays 
Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while 
Herself, though fairest unsupported flower. 
From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh. 
DIOCLESIAN 
AND THE AMBASSADORS. 
COWLEY. 
Methinks I see great Dioclesian walk 
In the Salonian garden’s noble shade, 
Which by his own imperial hands was made : 
