The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . turtle saw his rightFlaming in the phoenix sight:Either was the others mine. Property was thus appalld,That the self was not the same ;Single natures double nameNeither two nor one was calld. Reason, in itself confounded,Saw division grow together;To themselves yet either-neither,Simple were so well compounded: That it cried how true a twainSeemeth this concordant one !Love hath reason, reason what parts can so remain. Whereupon it made this threneTo the phoenix and the dove,Co-supremes and stars of love;As chorus to their tragic scene.
The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . turtle saw his rightFlaming in the phoenix sight:Either was the others mine. Property was thus appalld,That the self was not the same ;Single natures double nameNeither two nor one was calld. Reason, in itself confounded,Saw division grow together;To themselves yet either-neither,Simple were so well compounded: That it cried how true a twainSeemeth this concordant one !Love hath reason, reason what parts can so remain. Whereupon it made this threneTo the phoenix and the dove,Co-supremes and stars of love;As chorus to their tragic scene. , truth, and rarity,Grace in all enclosd in cinders lie. Death is now the phoenix nest;And the turtles loyal breastTo eternity doth rest, Leaving no posterity:—T was not their infirmity,It was married chastity. Truth may seem, but cannot be:Beauty brag, butt is not she ;Truth and beauty buried be. To this urn let those repairThat are either true or fair;For these dead birds sigh a prayer. Threne—funereal 145 ILLUSTEATIONS OF A LOVERS COMPLAINT, THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM, &c. A Lovers Complaint was first printed with theSonnets in 1609. It was reprinted in 1640, in thatcollection called Shaksperes Poems, in which theoriginal order of the Sonnets was entirely disre-garded, some were omitted, and this poem wasthrust in amidst translations from Ovid which hadbeen previously claimed by another writer. Of thesewe shall have presently to speak. There can be nodoubt of the genuineness of A Lovers is distinguished by that condensation of thoughtand outpouring of imagery which are the charac-teristics of Shaksperes poems. The effect conse-quent upon these qualities is, that the language issometimes obscure, and the metaphors occasionallyappear strange and forced. It is very differentfrom any production of Shaksperes in the case of the Venus and Adonis, and theLucrece, we feel that the power of the writer isin perfect s
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