Note 19:2 — A LETTER ON SHAKSPEARE'S AUTHORSHIP OF THE DRAMA ENTITLED THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN.
Reading edition
A singularly rich and energetic piece of colouring in this sort is near the beginning of the poem, commencing,
I have been wooed, as I entreat thee now, Even by the stern and direful God of War—
and extending through three stanzas.