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The forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath ? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed.

Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack - Page 91
1816
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Studies in William Jones: An Interpreter of Oriental Literature

Raj Kumar Kaul - Asianists - 1995 - 144 pages

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Shakespearean Criticism

Michael Magoulias - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 446 pages

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Shakespeare's Theory of Drama

Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages

...a poem, and the poet's writing hand seems to find itself involuntarily steeped in rhetorical dyes: The forward violet thus did I chide: 'Sweet thief,...pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells 4 In my love's veins thou has too grossly dyed.' The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram...

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