"As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart."
Cf. also Otway, _Venice Preserved_:
"Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life,
Dear as these eyes that weep in fondness o'er thee."
42. Wakefield quotes Pope: "And greatly falling with a fallen state;"
and Dryden: "And couldst not fall but with thy country's fate."