SUCH from Euphrates bank, a Tygress fell, After the Robbers, for her Whelps does yell: But sees, inrag’d, the River flow between. Frustrate Revenge, and Love, by Loss more keen, At her own Breast her useless claws does arm; She tears herself since him she cannot harm. (Andrew Marvell, ‘The last Instructions to a Painter’, ll. 623–8)1 This note provides further evidence supporting the conclusion that Marvell drew on Du Bartas in constructing his epic simile, and comments briefly on some implications of this evidence. The first-mentioned note traced Marvell's ‘Tygress fell’ to Ovid's account of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela and to Du Bartas's descriptions of Athaliah and of Zedekiah and the destruction of Jerusalem. The Fifth Day of the First Week of Du Bartas, which covers the Creation of the creatures of the sea and the air described in Genesis 1.20–23, also appears to have provided Marvell with a direct source of two elements of the simile. In a passage with the sidebar ‘Lessons for mankinde, out of the consideration of the natures of diuers creatures’, Du Bartas, I.v describes the love of parents for their children, using the example of a Lion who fights to the death in defence of his dear ‘whelps’, stolen from his den by ‘Hunters fell’: Thus doo'st thou print (O Parent of this All) In every brest of brutest Animall A kind Instinct, which makes them dread no less Their Childrens danger, then their owne decease; That so, each Kinde may last immortally, Though th’Indiuiduum pass successively. So fights a Lion, not for glory (then) But for his Deer Whelps taken from his Den By Hunters fell: He fiercely roareth out, He wounds, he kils; amid the thickest rout, He rushes-in, dread-less of Spears, and darts, Swords, shafts, and staues, though hurt in thousand parts; And, brave-resolved, till his last breath lack, Never gives-over, nor an inch gives-back: Wrath salves his wounds: and lastly (to conclude) When, over-layd with might and Multitude, He needs must dy; dying, he more bemoanes, Then his owne death, his Captiue little-Ones. (Du Bartas, I.v.837–54; bold emphasis added.)