I. (( There ^^■ith long bloody haire, a blazing Star

Threatens the world with Famine,. Plague and War To Princes, death, to kingdoms, many crosses ; To ail estâtes inévitable Losses :

ToHeard-men, Rot, toPloughmen,hapless Seasons To sailors storms. to citiescivill treasons » (3).

II. « Et Phœbé verse-IVoid. verse-humeur, borne-mois, 1 asse le Zodiaque en vn an douze fois ». (1).

II. « And lastly Lurm, thon ,old Queen ofNight, Régent ofhu mors, parting Montlis aright. ' Chaste Emperess, to one ^//r/ym/on constant • Constant in Love, though in thy looks inconstant ; (Unhkeour Loves, whose hearls dissemble soone.l) T^^•elve times a year through ail the Zodiack vm^n^^\ „ (2).

m. a Puis logeant Chez le Dain, la Cruche, et les Poissons L hyuer au lieu de fleurs se pare de glaçons : L'eau des toicts pend en l'air, et l'espous d'Orithie D'un soufle brise-roc esuente la Sythie : Tout languit en paresse, et Bacchus et Vulcan Corrigent la froideur des plus vifs mois de l'an » (3). III. «c And last of ail. when thy proud-trampling Teem For three Months more, to sojourne still doth seem With Capricom, AquaHus, and the Fishes (AMiile we in vaine revoke thee with our wishes) Instead of Flowrs, chill shivering Winter dresses W.th Ycesickles her (self-bald) borrow'd tresses : About her brows a Periwig of Snow, Her white Freeze Mantle fring'd witli Yce below, A payr of Lamb-lyn'd buskins on her feet, So doth she march Onjlhias love to meet ! • Who with bis bristled, hoary, beaugle-beàrd, Comming to kisse her, makes her lips afear'd ; Where-at, he sighes a breath so cold and keen, That ail the Waters Crystallized been ; While in a fury with his boystrous wings