On the couplet, cf. Dekker, _If this be not a good play_, etc.:
"Thinkest thou, base lord,
Because the glorious Sun behind black clouds
Has awhile hid his beams, he's darken'd forever,
Eclips'd never more to shine?"
137. Cf. _Lycidas_, 169: "And yet anon repairs his drooping head;"
and Fletcher, _Purple Island_, vi. 64: "So soon repairs her light,
trebling her new-born raies."
141. Mitford remarks that there is a passage (which he misquotes, as
usual) in the _Thebaid_ of Statius (iii. 81) similar to this,
describing a bard who had survived his companions:
"Sed jam nudaverat ensem
Magnanimus vates, et nunc trucis ora tyranni,
Nunc ferrum adspectans: 'Nunquam tibi sanguinis hujus
Jus erit, aut magno feries imperdita Tydeo
Pectora; _vado equidem exsultans_ et _ereptaque fata_
Insequor, et comites feror expectatus ad umbras;
_Te_ Superis, fratrique.' Et jam media orsa loquentis
Abstulerat plenum capulo latus."
Cf. also a passage in Pindar (_Olymp._ i. 184), which Gray seems to
have had in mind:
[Greek: Eiê se te touton
Hupsou chronon patein, eme
Te tossade nikaphorois
Homilein, k. t. l.