Wallows beneath the thorny shade.
Now, brothers, bending o'er the accursed loom, 95
Stamp we our vengeance deep, and ratify his doom.
"Edward, lo! to sudden fate
(Weave we the woof. The thread is spun.)
Half of thy heart we consecrate.
See Mirror for Magis. p. 417. Anon. 62, 69, 80. Again, "At Stonie Stratford being upon my way, The bloodie bore my uncle that did aime." Mirror for Magis. p. 740. **The bristled baptist boar," Dryden. The Princes are called the roses: Oh! noble Edward, from whose royal blood Life to their infant bodies nature drew, Thy roses lth are cropt e'en in the bud." And p. 745, with the same allusion: " Why didst thou leave that bore in time t' ensue To spoil those plants that in thy garden grew." See also the Battle of Flodden Field, st. 255; and Ford. Perkin Warbeck, act i. sc. 1. p. 12. ed. Weber.
V. 96. "If Fate weave common thread, I'll change the doom, And with new purple weave a nobler loom." Dryd. Seb.
V. 98. Yet rather let him live, and twine His woof of dayes with some thread stolen from mine." Cartwright. Poems, p 239. 'Ayapipvovi zóгpov voaire. Tryphiod. v. 409. Nonni. Diou. iv. 244.
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Notes
- ↑ V. 99. Eleanor of Castile died a few years after the conquest of Wales. The heroic proof she gave of her affection
- ↑ And see the Lay of the Last Minstrel, cant. iv. st. xxx:And so in Henry VI.part ii. act v. sc. 2. Warwick is called the Bear, from his father's badge, old Neville's crest:"Yet bear, quoth Howard, calmly bear,
Nor deem my words the words of fear;
For who, in field or foray slack,
Saw the Blanche Lion e'er fall back?""The rampant Bear chained to the ragged staff."
