"So hote he loved, that by nightertale
He slep no more than doth the nightingale."
We all know how the nightingale employs the night--and here it is
implied that so did the lover. Mr Horne spoils all by an affected
prettiness suggested by a misapplied passage in Milton.
"His amorous ditties nightly fill'd the vale;
He slept no more than doth the nightingale."