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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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83. Of Night.

Hath Night no other gown, but black aray?
Alas poor Widow! dead's her Husband Day.
Were not Stars Lanthorns, to the mourning night;
We likewise might be vext, before Day-light.