“And if it now were, it were not too soon;

Would that it were, seeing it needs must be,

For ’twill aggrieve me more the more I age.”

“And if it now were, it were not too soon; Would that it were, seeing it needs must be, For ’twill aggrieve me more the more I age.”

For an account of these disasters see note 377 . ↩

Upon this passage Mr. Wright, in the notes to his translation, makes the following extracts from the Bible, Shakespeare, and Spenser:⁠—