For Spenser temperance has various images: it is a golden rule or square, it is a bridle, it is water tempering wine. It is also a structure or frame—the frame at once of the individual man, the commonwealth, and the universe itself; and this is as we should expect from an age in which La Primaudaye can introduce temperance by praising God's cosmic workmanship:
In Marvell's beautiful and enigmatic poem Mourning we find the nymph Chlora weeping for the death of her lover Strephon. Her behaviour has evidently aroused a good deal of curiosity, and those who "pretend art" offer various far-fetched explanations for it, all to her discredit: her tears are a way of softening a place near her heart for another wound; or she is courting herself during her enforced seclusion like Danae in a shower; or she is throwing grief from her windows because joy has now become her master. The speaker reports and then rejects all these explanations: an Indian pearl-diver, he says, might sink to the depths of the ocean, but never reach the bottom of One of Chlora's tears. The poem concludes with a very guarded observation:
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