Note 557 — ACT V. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Donne has some verses On a Flea on his Mistress’ Bosom, beginning:— “Madam, that flea which crept between your breast I envied that there he should make his rest.”
Whether these verses of Donne had been written (and circulated in MS.) so early, I do not know; but the conceit was certainly out of the common.