Broken with sighes, to decke thy sable herse!
[* _Hent_, taken away.]

And ye, faire Ladie! th'honor of your daies 680
And glorie of the world, your high thoughts scorne,
Vouchsafe this moniment of his last praise
With some few silver dropping teares t'adorne;
And as ye be of heavenlie off-spring borne,
So unto heaven let your high minde aspire, 685
And loath this drosse of sinfull worlds desire.

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FOOTNOTES:

Ver. 8.--_Verlame._ Veralam, or Verulamium, was a British and Roman
town, near the present city of St. Alban's in Hertfordshire. Some
remains of its walls are still perceptible. H.

Ver. 64.--_Th'Assyrian Lyonesse._ These types of nations are taken
from the seventh chapter of the book of Daniel. H.

Ver. 190.--_I saw him die_. Leicester died at Cornbury Lodge, in
Oxfordshire. Todd suggests that he may have fallen sick at St. Alban's,
and that Spenser, hearing the report in Ireland, may havo concluded
without inquiry that this was the place of his subsequent death, C.

Ver. 225.--_Colin Cloute._ Spenser himself, who had been befriended by
Leicester. H.