...as the opening of the speech in which the amorous King heralds the approach of his lady-love : — Now comes my lover tripping like the roe, And brings my longings tangled in her hair, or in the noble chorus beginning, — O proud revolt of a presumptuous man, in which David's unbridled...

...considerable gift for local colour. Some of the early speeches of David are full of mellifluous imagery : ' Now comes my lover tripping like the roe, And brings...kingly bower, Seated in hearing of a hundred streams. . . .' The cloying sweetness of Peele's phraseology tends to monotony, but he breaks away from this...

...flowers ; To flowers sweet odours ; and to odours wings That carry pleasures to the hearts of kings. Now comes my lover tripping like the roe, And brings my longings tangled in her hair. To joy her love I '11 build a kingly bower, Seated in hearing of a hundred streams, That, for their homage to her sovereign...

...flowers ; To flowers sweet odours ; and to odours wings That carry pleasures to the hearts of kings. Now comes my lover tripping like the roe, And brings my longings tangled in her hair. To joy her love I 'll build a kingly bower, Seated in hearing of a hundred streams, That, for their homage to her sovereign...

...That carries pleasures to the hearts of Kings." '[Two lines omitted.] '[Twenty-one linei omitted.] Now comes my Lover tripping like the Roe, And brings my longings tangled in her hair. To jov her love I'll build a kingly bower, Seated in hearing of a hundred streams, That, for their homage...

...flowers, To flowers sweet odours, and to odours wings, That carries pleasures to the hearts of Kings.2 Now comes my Lover tripping like the Roe, And brings my longings tangled in her hair. To jov her love I'll build a kingly bower, Seated in hearing of a hundred streams, That, for their homage...

...addresses females by these names. 69. tangles, locks or curls ; comp. Peele'a David and Bethsabe — " Now comes my lover tripping like the roe, And brings my longings tangled in her hair." 70. Fame is the spur that incites the noble mind to high efforts : comp. Par. Reg. iii. 25 — . "...

...sweet odors, and to odors — wings That carries pleasure to the hearts of Kings !" And again: — "Now comes my lover tripping like the roe, And brings my longings tangled in her hair To joy her love, I 'll build a Kingly bower Seated in hearing of a hundred streams." Tom Campbell said — "there is...

...and in the parables, and now and again the very allurement and luxury of words, as in the famous, " Now comes my lover tripping like the roe And brings my longings tangled in her hair." While this operatic verbalism with its faults and merits cannot of course be assigned wholly to Peele,...

...flowers, To flowers sweet odours, and to odours wings, That carry pleasures to the hearts of kings. Now comes my lover tripping like the roe, And brings my longings tangled in her To joy her love I'll build a kingly bower, Seated in hearing of a hundred streams. That, for their...