...Shakspere makes the south steal odour from the violet. In his pgth Sonnet the violet is made the thief: ," The forward violet thus did I chide : " Sweet thief,...sweet that smells, ' .. " If not from my love's breath •?" MALONE. the sweet south,] The old copy reads • ' sweet sound, which Mr. Rowe changed into wind,...

...white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose ; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Prawn after you, you pattern of all those : Yet seem'd it...winter still, and you away, As with your shadow I with Ihese did play. The forward violet thus did I chide; Sweet thief! whence didst thou steal thy sweet...

...poets; on the contrary, we imagery is not so different from the European as we are apt to imagine. The forward -violet thus did I chide : " Sweet thief...smells, If not from my love's breath ? The purple priuc, Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells. In mv L ove's veins thou hast too grossly dyed."...

...lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose ; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those : Yet seem'd...away, As with your shadow, I with these did play. The forward violet thus did I chide ; Sweet thief ! whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,...

...lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...away, As with your shadow I with these did play." And I am scarcely less persuaded that a third cluster, of nine, had the same source. These, too, are...

...white, Nor praise the deep vermillion in the rose ; They were, tho' sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...you away, As with your shadow I with these did play ! Scarcely less sure, or if a less valuable, not less indispensable mark will the imagery supply, when,...

...of all those. Yet seemed it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : The forward violet thus did I chide ;— Sweet thief,...didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from ray love's breath ? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells, In my love's veins...

...Shakspeare makes the wind steal odour from the violet. In his 99th Sonnet, the violet is made the thief : " The forward violet thus did I chide : " Sweet thief,...sweet that smells, " If not from my love's breath ? " MALONE. ' > Of what VALIDITY and pitch soe'er,] Validity is here used for value. MALONE. So, in...

...they grew : They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose ; Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd...away, As with your shadow, I with these did play." I am not aware of any writer of Sonnets worth mentioning here till long after Milton, that is, till...

...lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermillion in the rose ; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet, seem'd...away, As with your shadow I with these did play." CII. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; I love not less, though less the show...