XLII.

Hee tooke a course, which since, succesfully, Great men have often taken, to espie The counsels, or to breake the plots of foes. To Abels tent he stealeth in the darke, On whose skirts the bitch slept; ere she could barke, 415 Attach'd her with streight gripes, yet hee call'd those, Embracements of love; to loves worke he goes, Where deeds move more then words; nor doth she show, Nor <make> resist, nor needs hee streighten so His prey, for, were shee loose, she would nor barke, nor goe. 420