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Rh praises of his sweet mistress, dead on her wedding-day, wrote these quaint and pretty lines entreating for her favor:—

In Beddoes's unfinished drama of "Torresmond," we find Veronica's maidens singing her to sleep with just such bright conceits and soft caressing words, and their song rings like an echo from some dim old room where Lesbia, or Althea, or Celia lies a-dreaming:—