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58 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES
Blume mit dem Purpurschein,
Die Kupidos Pfeile weihn,
Senk dich in sein Aug' hinein.
Wenn er sieht sein Liebchen fein,
Dass sie glorreich ihm erschein',
Wie Cyther' im Sternenreihn.
Wachst du auf, wenn sie dabei,
Bitte, dass sie hilfreich sei.
The above verses resemble the love-poem to
Rosalind in As you like it, iii. 2 :
From the east to western Ind,
No jewel
is like Rosalind.
Her worth being mounted on the wind,
Through all the world bears Rosalind.
All the pictures fairest lin'd
Are but black to Rosalind.
Let no face be kept in mind
But the face of Rosalind.
We would also refer the readers to the verses
contained in the three caskets in The Merchant of
Venice, which lines rhyme in the same manner.
But not only in verses written in stanza-form or in
long rhyming lines of equal length does the poet
display the delight he takes in rhyming, but also in
short snatches, the charm of which is enhanced by the
recurrence of internal rhymes.
We have noticed the telling effect produced by this
manner of rhyme in lines of a serious character, for
instance, in the words uttered by Claudio in Measure
for Measure-. "/, but to die and go we know not
where, To lie. . . ."
Similar instances occur still more frequently in the
comedies; thus in Loves Labours Lost (iv. i),
the
verses may be said to run in and out :