Bk., II, S, I, p. 2it), V

Feeds full the wanton eye with May's delight ;

Yet for the bravery that she is in

Doth neither handle card nor wheel to spin,

Nor changeth robes but twice : is never seen

In other colours than in white or green.

Learn then content, young shepherd, Irom this tree,

Whose greatest wealth is Nature's livery ;

And richest ingots never toil to find,

Nor care for poverty butof the mind » (1).

Les vers suivants ont pu être sug-g-érés par le récit biblique de la conversion de Saûl (2).

« When suddenly a voice as sweet as clear, With words divine began entice his ear : Whereat, as in a rapture, on the ground He prostrate lay, and ail his sensés found A time of rest ; only that faculty Which never can be seen, nor ever die, That in the essence of an endiess nature Doth sympathise with the AU-good Creator, That only wak'd which cannot be interr'd And from a heavenly choir this ditty heard» Etc. (3).