“Neque virgo est usquam, neque ego, qui e conspectu illam amisi meo,
        Ubi quaeram, ubi investigem, quem percunter, quam insistam viam?”

The virgin’s gone, and I am gone, she’s gone, she’s gone, and what shall I do? where shall I seek her, where shall I find her, whom shall I ask? what way, what course shall I take? what will become of me—­[5317]_vitales auras invitus agebat_, he was weary of his life, sick, mad, and desperate, [5318]_utinam mihi esset aliquid hic, quo nunc me praecipitem darem_.  ’Tis not Chaereas’ case this alone, but his, and his, and every lover’s in the like state.  If he hear ill news, have bad success in his suit, she frown upon him, or that his mistress in his presence respect another more (as [5319]Hedus observes) “prefer another suitor, speak more familiarly to him, or use more kindly than himself, if by nod, smile, message, she discloseth herself to another, he is instantly tormented, none so dejected as he is,” utterly undone, a castaway, [5320]_In quem fortuna omnia odiorum suorum crudelissima tela exonerat_, a dead man, the scorn of fortune, a monster of fortune, worse than nought, the loss of a kingdom had been less. [5321]Aretine’s Lucretia made very good proof of this, as she relates it herself.  “For when I made some of my suitors believe I would betake myself to a nunnery, they took on, as if they had lost father and mother, because they were for ever after to want my company.” Omnes labores leves fuere, all other labour was light:  [5322]but this might not be endured. Tui carendum quod erat—­“for I cannot be without thy company,” mournful Amyntas, painful Amyntas, careful Amyntas; better a metropolitan city were sacked, a royal army overcome, an invincible armada sunk, and twenty thousand kings should perish, than her little finger ache, so zealous are they, and so tender of her good.  They would all turn friars for my sake, as she follows it, in hope by that means to meet, or see me again, as my confessors, at stool-ball, or at barley-break:  And so afterwards when an importunate suitor came, [5323]"If I had bid my maid say that I was not at leisure, not within, busy, could not speak with him, he was instantly astonished, and stood like a pillar of marble; another went swearing, chafing, cursing, foaming.” [5324]_Illa sibi vox ipsa Jovis violentior ira, cum tonat_, &c. the voice of a mandrake had been sweeter music:  “but he to whom I gave entertainment, was in the Elysian fields, ravished for joy, quite beyond himself.”  ’Tis the general humour of all lovers, she is their stern, pole-star, and guide. [5325]_Deliciumque animi, deliquiumque sui._ As a tulipant to the sun (which our herbalists calls Narcissus) when it shines, is Admirandus flos ad radios solis se pandens, a glorious flower exposing itself; [5326]but when the sun sets, or a tempest comes, it hides itself, pines away, and hath no pleasure left, (which Carolus Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, in a cause not unlike, sometimes