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LAURA, WHO IS ILL, APPEARS TO HIM IN A DREAM, AND ASSURES HIM _THAT SHE / STILL LIVES._
Throughout the orient now began to flame / The star of love; while o'er the northern sky / That, which has oft raised Juno's jealousy, / Pour'd forth its beauteous scintillating beam: / Beside her kindled hearth the housewife dame, / Half-dress'd, and slipshod, 'gan her distaff ply: / And now the wonted hour of woe drew nigh, / That wakes to tears the lover from his dream: / When my sweet hope unto my mind appear'd, / Not in the custom'd way unto my sight; / For grief had bathed my lids, and sleep had weigh'd; / Ah me, how changed that form by love endear'd! / "Why lose thy fortitude? " methought she said, / "These eyes not yet from thee withdraw their light."