Fortune, though she smile to-day, Fickle is and will not stay, But true-love changeth never.

"The world doth change, as change it must, But true-love changeth never.

Browne alludes to the primrose, which "maidens as a true-love in their bosoms place;" and in the North of England the kemps or spikes of the ribwort plantain are used as love-charms.

Isabella unburies her murdered lover Lorenzo; preserves his head in a pot of basil; and (as expressed in st. 52 of the poem) 'Hung over her sweet basil evermore, And moistened it with tears unto the core.' I give Shelley's words 'true love tears' as they appear in the Pisan edition: 'true-love tears' might be preferable.

Oberon then softly drew near his Titania, and dropt some of the love-juice on her eye-lids, saying, What thou seest when thou dost wake, Do it for thy true-love take.

Fly where the man is found that I love best!' He leaves my hand: see, to the west he's flown, To call my true-love from the faithless town.

And while I knit the knot repeat this strain: 'Three times a true-love's knot I tie secure; Firm be the knot, firm may his love endure!'

Oh! where shall I my true-love find?

'I think thou art not over gay as yet, for a young wife, with a true-love husband to please.'

Heartbroken at the fate of her true-love, and to escape this hateful marriage, she was about to take the vestal vow, and in the gloom of St. Hilda hide her blasted hopes, her youth and beauty.

What's the soft South-wester? 'Tis the ladies' breeze, Bringing home their true-loves Out of all the seas:

3 Their envy made the shepherd find Those eyes, which love could only blind; So set the lover free: No more he haunts the grove or stream, Or with a true-love knot and name Engraves a wounded tree. 4 Ah, Cælia!

[Sings] Safe be my true-love convoyed o'er the main To Mitylenèthough the southern blast Chase the lithe waves, while westward slant the Kids, Or low above the verge Orion stand

With quaking fingers that only tangled the true-love knot and bled on the thorns, she stripped the ribbon off and lifted a hand high to cast it forth, but smote the sash and dropped the emblem at her own feet.

Wherefore no filial foot this turf may tread, No kneeling mother clasp her baby's bed; No maiden unespoused, with widow'd sighs, Seek her soul's treasure where her true-love lies; All stand aloof, and gazing from afar, Look on this mount as on some baleful star, Strange to the heavens, that with bewildering light, Like a lost spirit, wanders through the night.

The Gypsie finding he was not displeased in his Heart, told him, after a farther Enquiry into his Hand, that his True-love was constant, and that she should dream of him to-night:

It was Nan, a pale mulatto house-servant, that the field-hand took into his dull, lonesome heart to make life of, with true-love defiance of caste.

And, falling into Bruce's arms, Thus died the beauteous Ellen, Thus, from the heart of her True-love, 35 The mortal spear repelling.

" Strange words they seemed of slight and scorn; My True-love sighed for sorrow; 30