betray
them: _Ubi amor ibi oculus_, as the common saying is, "where I look I like,
and where I like I love;" but they will lose themselves in her looks.

"Alter in alterius jactantes lumina vultus,
Quaerebant taciti noster ubi esset amor."

"They cannot look off whom they love," they will _impregnare eam, ipsis
oculis_, deflower her with their eyes, be still gazing, staring, stealing
faces, smiling, glancing at her, as [5280]Apollo on Leucothoe, the moon on
her [5281]Endymion, when she stood still in Caria, and at Latmos caused her
chariot to be stayed. They must all stand and admire, or if she go by, look
after her as long as they can see her, she is _animae auriga_, as Anacreon
calls her, they cannot go by her door or window, but, as an adamant, she
draws their eyes to it; though she be not there present, they must needs
glance that way, and look back to it. Aristenaetus of [5282] Exithemus,
Lucian, in his Imagim. of himself, and Tatius of Clitophon, say as much,
_Ille oculos de Leucippe [5283]nunquam dejiciebat_, and many lovers confess
when they came in their mistress' presence, they could not hold off their
eyes, but looked wistfully and steadily on her, _inconnivo aspectu_, with
much eagerness and greediness, as if they would look through, or should
never have enough sight of her. _Fixis ardens obtutibus haeret_; so she
will do by him, drink to him with her eyes, nay, drink him up, devour him,
swallow him, as Martial's Mamurra is remembered to have done: _Inspexit
molles pueros, oculisque comedit_, &c. There is a pleasant story to this
purpose in _Navigat. Vertom. lib. 3. cap. 5._ The sultan of Sana's wife in
Arabia, because Vertomannus was fair and white, could not look off him,
from sunrising to sunsetting; she could not desist; she made him one day
come into her chamber, _et geminae, horae spatio intuebatur, non a me
anquam aciem oculorum avertebat, me observans veluti Cupidinem quendam_,
for two hours' space she still gazed on him. A young man in [5284]Lucian
fell in love with Venus' picture; he came every morning to her temple, and
there continued all day long [5285]from sunrising to sunset, unwilling to
go home at night, sitting over against the goddess's picture, he did
continually look upon her, and mutter to himself I know not what. If so be
they cannot see them whom they love, they will still be walking and waiting
about their mistress's doors, taking all opportunity to see them, as in
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