Note 685:B — Chapter IV · (continued 2)
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Sir Arthur was the intimate friend of Spenser, who lamented the death of Lady Gorges in a beautiful elegy entitled "Daphnaida:" he has recorded, likewise, the conjugal affection and the talents of her husband, under the name of Alcyon, in the following elegant lines:—
"And there is sad Alcyon, bent to mourne, Though fit to frame an everlasting dittie, Whose gentle spright for Daphne's death doth tourne Sweet layes of love to endlesse plaints of pittie. Ah pensive boy, pursue that brave conceipt, In thy sweet eglantine of Meriflure, Lift up thy notes unto their wonted height, That may thy Muse and mates to mirth allure."
Todd's Spenser, vol. viii. p. 23.