"Shewing her wreathed rootes and naked armes."
103. _His listless length_. Hales compares _King Lear_, i. 4: "If you
will measure your lubber's length again, tarry." Cf. also _Brittain's
Ida_ (formerly ascribed to Spenser, but rejected by the best
editors), iii. 2:
"Her goodly length stretcht on a lilly-bed."
104. Cf. Thomson, _Spring_, 644: "divided by a babbling brook;" and
Horace, _Od._ iii. 13, 15:
"unde loquaces
Lymphae desiliunt tuae."
Wakefield quotes _As You Like It_, ii. 1:
"As he lay along
Under an oak whose antique root peeps out
Upon the brook that brawls along this road."