[A. H. H., R. B., C. J. R., H. G. T., and other friends have replied to
this Query.
The Rev. J. Sansom points out a kindred passage in his poem of _Divine
Love_, canto vi. p. 249.:
"The soul contending to that light to fly
From her dark cell," &c.
H. G. sends a beautiful parallel passage from Fuller (_Holy State Life
of Monica_): "Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as
harbingers to heaven, and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through
the chinks of her sickness-broken body." And J. H. M. informs us that
amongst Duke's Poems is a most flattering one addressed to Waller,
evidently allusive to the lines in question.]
"_Beauty Retire_" (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--The lines beginning "Beauty
Retire," which Pepys set to music, taken from the second part of the _Siege
of Rhodes_, act iv. scene 2., are printed in the 5th volume of the
_Memoirs_, p. 250., 3rd edition.
I believe the music exists in the Pepysian Library, but any of the Fellows
of Magdalene College could ascertain the fact.