BOOK III. Epigraph

 "Take away the lights, too;

 

The moon lends me too much to find my fears;

 

And those devotions I am now to pay,

 

Are written in my heart, not in thy book;

 

And I shall read them there without a taper¹."

1 taper   

n.小蜡烛，尖细，渐弱；adj.尖细的；v.逐渐变小

参考例句：

• You'd better taper off the amount of time given to rest.你最好逐渐地减少休息时间。
• Pulmonary arteries taper towards periphery.肺动脉向周围逐渐变细。