Note 709 — THE ARGUMENT.
Reading edition
Oldham's translation of Bion on the death of Adonis:
Kiss, while I watch thy swimming eye-balls roll, Watch thy last gasp, and catch thy springing soul.
Dryden's Virg. Æn. iv. 984:
While I in death Lay close my lips to hers, and catch the flying breath.
And in his Cleomenes, the end of Act iv.:
———sucking in each other's latest breath.—Wakefield.