William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
W. G. Clark, W. Aldis Wright, Ed.

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176

(1226)
But as the earth doth weep, the sun being set, (1227)

Each flower moisten'd like a melting eye; (1228)

Even so the maid with swelling drops gan wet (1229)

Her circled eyne, enforced by sympathy (1230)

Of those fair suns set in her mistress' sky,
(1231)
Who in a salt-waved ocean quench their light, (1232)

Which makes the maid weep like the dewy night.