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    Yet love breaks through; and picks them all at last。



  For pity now she can no more detain him;

  The poor fool prays her that he may depart。

  She is resolved no longer to restrain him;

  Bids him farewell; and look well to her heart;

    The which by Cupid's bow she doth protest

    He carries thence incaged in his breast。



  'Sweet boy;' she says; 'this night I'll waste in sorrow;

  For my sick heart commands mine eyes to watch。

  Tell me; love's master; shall we meet to…morrow?

  Say; shall we? shall we? wilt thou make the match?'

    He tells her; no; to…morrow he intends

    To hunt the boar with certain of his friends。



  'The boar!' quoth she: whereat a sudden pale;

  Like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose;

  Usurps her cheek; she trembles at his tale;

  And on his neck her yoking arms she throws。

    She sinketh down; still hanging by his neck;

    He on her belly falls; she on her back。



  Now is she in the very lists of love;

  Her champion mounted for the hot encounter。

  All is imaginary she doth prove;

  He will not manage her; although he mount her;

    That worse than Tantalus' is her annoy;

    To clip Elysium and to lack her joy。



  Even so poor birds; deceived with painted grapes;

  Do surfeit by the eye and pine the maw;

  Even so she languisheth in her mishaps

  As those poor birds that helpless berries saw。

    The warm effects which she in him finds missing

    She seeks to kindly with continual kissing。



  But all in vain; good queen; it will not be。

  She hath assayed as much as may be proved;

  Her pleading hath deserved a greater fee;

  She's Love; she loves; and yet she is not loved。

    'Fie; fie;' he says; 'you crush me; let me go;

    You have no reason to withhold me so。'



  'Thou hadst been gone;' quoth she; 'sweet boy; ere this;

  But that thou told'st me thou wouldst hunt the boar。

  O; be advised: thou know'st not what it is

  With javelin's point a churlish swine to gore;

    Whose tushes never sheathed he whetteth still;

    Like to a mortal butcher bent to kill。



  'On his bow…back he hath a battle set

  Of bristly pikes that ever threat his foes;

  His eyes like glow…worms shine when he doth fret;

  His snout digs sepulchres where'er he goes;

    Being moved; he strikes whate'er is in his way;

    And whom he strikes his crooked tushes slay。



  'His brawny sides; with hairy bristles armed;

  Are better proof than thy spear's point can enter;

  His short thick neck cannot be easily harmed;

  Being ireful; on the lion he will venter:

    The thorny brambles and embracing bushes;

    As fearful of him; part; through whom he rushes。



  'Alas; he nought esteems that face of thine;

  To which Love's eyes pays tributary gazes;

  Nor thy soft hands; sweet lips; and crystal eyne;

  Whose full perfection all the world amazes;

    But having thee at vantage… wondrous dread!…

    Would root these beauties as he roots the mead。



  'O; let him keep his loathsome cabin still;

  Beauty hath nought to do with such foul fiends。

  Come not within his danger by thy will;

  They that thrive well take counsel of their friends。

    When thou didst name the boar; not to dissemble;

    I feared thy fortune; and my joints did tremble。



  'Didst thou not mark my face? was it not white?

  Saws't thou not signs of fear lurk in mine eye?

  Grew I not faint? and fell I not downright?

  Within my bosom; whereon thou dost lie;

    My boding heart pants; beats; and takes no rest;

    But; like an earthquake; shakes thee on my breast。



  'For where Love reigns; disturbing Jealousy

  Doth call himself Affection's sentinel;

  Gives false alarms; suggesteth mutiny;

  And in a peaceful hour doth cry 〃Kill; kill!〃

    Distemp'ring gentle Love in his desire;

    As air and water do abate the fire。



  'This sour informer; this bate…breeding spy;

  This canker that eats up Love's tender spring;

  This carry…tale; dissentious Jealousy;

  That sometime true news; sometime false doth bring;

    Knocks at my heart; and whispers in mine ear

    That if I love thee I thy death should fear;



  'And more than so; presenteth to mine eye

  The picture of an angry chafing boar

  Under whose sharp fangs on his back doth lie

  An image like thyself; all stained with gore;

    Whose blood upon the fresh flowers being shed

    Doth make them droop with grief and hang the head。



  'What should I do; seeing thee so indeed;

  That tremble at th'imagination?

  The thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed;

  And fear doth teach it divination:

    I prophesy thy death; my living sorrow;

    If thou encounter with the boar to…morrow。



  'But if thou needs wilt hunt; be ruled by me;

  Uncouple at the timorous flying hare;

  Or at the fox which lives by subtlety;

  Or at the roe which no encounter dare。

    Pursue these fearful creatures o'er the downs;

    And on thy well…breathed horse keep with thy hounds。



  'And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare;

  Mark the poor wretch; to overshoot his troubles;

  How he outruns the wind; and with what care

  He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles。

    The many musits through the which he goes

    Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes。



  'Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep;

  To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell;

  And sometime where earth…delving conies keep;

  To stop the loud pursuers in their yell;

    And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer。

    Danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear。



  'For there his smell with others being mingled;

  The hot scent…snuffing hounds are driven to doubt;

  Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled

  With much ado the cold fault cleanly out。

    Then do they spend their mouths; Echo replies;

    As if another chase were in the skies。



  'By this; poor Wat; far off upon a hill;

  Stands on his hinder legs with list'ning ear;

  To hearken if his foes pursue him still;

  Anon their loud alarums he doth hear;

    And now his grief may be compared well

    To one sore sick that hears the passing…bell。



  'Then shalt thou see the dew…bedabbled wretch

  Turn; and return; indenting with the way;

  Each envious brier his weary legs do scratch;

  Each shadow makes him stop; each murmur stay;

    For misery is trodden on by many;

    And being low never relieved by any。



  'Lie quietly and hear a little more;

  Nay; do not struggle; for thou shalt not rise。

  To make thee hate the hunting of the boar;

  Unlike myself thou hear'st me moralize;

    Applying this to that; and so to so;

    For love can comment upon every woe。



  'Where did I leave?' 'No matter where;' quoth he;

  'Leave me; and then the story aptly ends。

  The night is spent。' 'Why; what of that?' quoth she。

  'I am'; quoth he; 'expected of my friends;

    And now 'tis dark; and going I shall fall。'

    'In night'; quoth she; 'desire sees best of all。



  'But if thou fall; O; then imagine this;

  The earth; in love with thee; thy footing trips;

  And all is but to rob thee of a kiss。

  Rich preys make true men thieves; so do thy lips

    Make modest Dian cloudy and forlorn;

    Lest she should steal a kiss; and die forsworn。



  'Now of this dark night I perceive the reason:

  Cynthia for shame obscures her silver shine;

  Till forging Nature be condemned of treason;

  For stealing moulds from heaven that were divine;

    Wherein she framed thee; in high heaven's despite;

    To shame the sun by day and her by night。



  'And therefore hath she bribed the Destinies

  To cross the curious workmanship of Nature;

  To mingle beauty with infirmities

  And pure perfection with impure defeature;

    Making it subject to the tyranny

    Of mad mischances and much misery;



  'As burning fevers; agues pale and faint;

  Life…poisoning pestilence and frenzies wood;

  The marrow…eating sickness whose attaint

  Disorder breeds by heating of the blood;

    Surfeits; imposthumes; grief and damned despair;

    Swear Nature's death for framing thee so fair。



  'And not the least of all these maladies

  But in one minute's fight brings beauty under。

  Both favour; savour; hue and qualities;

  Whereat th'impartial gazer late did wonder;

    Are on the sudden wasted; thawed and done;

    As mountain snow melts with the midday sun。



  'Therefore; despite of fruitless chastity;

  Love…lacking vestals and self…loving nuns;

  That on the earth would breed a scarcity

  And barren dearth of daughters and of sons;

    Be prodigal: the lamp that burns by night

    Dries up his oil to lend the world his light。



  'What is thy body but a swallowing grave;

  Seeming to bury that posterity

  Which by the rights of time thou needs must have;

  If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?

    If so; the world will hold thee in disdain;

    Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain。



  'So in thyself thyself art made away;

  A mischief worse than civil home…bred strife;

  Or theirs whose desperate hands themselves do slay;

  Or butcher sire that reaves his son of life。

    Foul cank'ring rust the hidden treasure frets;

    But gold that's put to use more gold begets。'



  'Nay; then;' quoth Adon; you will fall again

  Into your idle over…handied theme;

  The kiss I gave you is bestowed in vain;

  And all in vain you strive against the stream;

    For; by this black…faced night; desire's foul nurse;

    Your treatise makes me like you worse and worse。



  'If love have lent you twenty thousand tongues;

  And every tongue more moving than your own;

  Bewitching like the wanton mermaid's songs;

  Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown;

    For know; my heart stands armed in mine ear;

    And will not let a false sou

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