The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . 143. VERSES AMONG THE ADDITIONAL POEMS TO CHESTERSLOVES MARTYR, 1601. Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou, shrieking harbinger,Foul pre-currer of the fiend,Augur of the fevers end,To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdictEvery fowl of tyrant wing,Save the eagle, featherd king:Keep the obsequy so strict. a curious coincidence in a passage in tiie Tem- Now I will believeThat there are unicorns; that in ArabiaThere is one tree, the piioenix

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The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . 143. VERSES AMONG THE ADDITIONAL POEMS TO CHESTERSLOVES MARTYR, 1601. Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou, shrieking harbinger,Foul pre-currer of the fiend,Augur of the fevers end,To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdictEvery fowl of tyrant wing,Save the eagle, featherd king:Keep the obsequy so strict. a curious coincidence in a passage in tiie Tem- Now I will believeThat there are unicorns; that in ArabiaThere is one tree, the piioenix throne. Let the priest in surplice white,That defunctive music can,Be the death-divining swan,Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou, treble-dated crow,That thy sable gender makstWith the breath thou givst and takst,^Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. Here the anthem doth commence :Love and constancy is dead;Phoenix and the turtle fledIn a mutual flame from hence. So they lovd, as love in twainHad the essence but in one;Two distincts, division no

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