That virtue."

Beaumont and Fletcher's _Philaster_, Act iv.

On l. 894. (G.):--

"Beset at th' end with emeralds and turches."

Lingua iv. 4. _Old Plays_, v. 5. p. 202. ed. 1780.

On l. 924. (M.) Mr. Warton says this votive address was suggested by
that of Amoret in the _Faithful Shepherdess_; but observes that "the
form and subject, rather than the imagery, is copied." In the following
maledictory address from Ph. Fletcher's 2nd eclogue, st. 23., the
imagery is precisely similar to Milton's, the good and evil being made
to consist in the fulness or decrease of the water, the clearness or
muddiness of the stream, and the nature of the plants flowing on its
banks:--

"But thou, proud Chame, which thus hast wrought me spite,
Some greater river drown thy hatefull name;
Let never myrtle on thy banks delight;
But willows pale, the leads of spite and blame,
Crown thy ungratefull shores with scorn and shame: {150}
Let dirt and mud thy lazie waters seize,
Thy weeds still grow, thy waters still decrease;
Nor let thy wretched love to Gripus ever cease."

P. 13. ed. 1633.