LXIX. 4.

Clarity

clearness, transparency.

Here clarity of candour, history’s soul, The critical mind in short.

BROWNING, Ring and Book, i. 925.

LXX.

Sir Philip Sidney thus translates this poem:--

Unto no body my woman saith shee had rather a wife be, Then to myself, not though Jove grew a suter of hers. These be her words, but a woman’s words to a love that is eager, Midde [windes?] or waters stream do require to be writ.