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  And like a lowly lover down she kneels;

  With one fair hand she heaveth up his hat;

  Her other tender hand his fair cheek feels;

    His tend'rer cheek receives her soft hand's print

    As apt as new…fall'n snow takes any dint。



  O; what a war of looks was then between them;

  Her eyes petitioners to his eyes suing!

  His eyes saw her eyes as they had not seen them;

  Her eyes wooed still; his eyes disdained the wooing;

    And all this dumb play had his acts made plain

    With tears which chorus…like her eyes did rain。



  Full gently now she takes him by the hand;

  A lily prisoned in a gaol of snow;

  Or ivory in an alabaster band;

  So white a friend engirts so white a foe:

    This beauteous combat; wilful and unwilling;

    Showed like two silver doves that sit a…billing。



  Once more the engine of her thoughts began:

  'O fairest mover on this mortal round;

  Would thou wert as I am; and I a man;

  My heart all whole as thine; thy heart my wound;

    For one sweet look thy help I would assure thee;

    Though nothing but my body's bane would cure thee。'



  'Give me my hand;' saith he; 'why dost thou feel it?'

  'Give me my heart;' saith she; 'and thou shalt have it;

  O; give it me; lest thy hard heart do steel it;

  And being steeled; soft sighs can never grave it;

    Then love's deep groans I never shall regard;

    Because Adonis' heart hath made mine hard。'



  'For shame;' he cries; 'let go; and let me go;

  My day's delight is past; my horse is gone;

  And 'tis your fault I am bereft him so。

  I pray you hence; and leave me here alone;

    For all my mind; my thought; my busy care;

    Is how to get my palfrey from the mare。'



  'O; where am I?' quoth she; 'in earth or heaven;

  Or in the ocean drenched; or in the fire?

  What hour is this? or morn or weary even?

  Do I delight to die; or life desire?

    But now I lived; and life was death's annoy;

    But now I died; and death was lively joy。



  'O; thou didst kill me: kill me once again。

  Thy eyes' shrewd tutor; that hard heart of thine;

  Hath taught them scornful tricks; and such disdain

  That they have murd'red this poor heart of mine;

    And these mine eyes; true leaders to their queen;

    But for thy piteous lips no more had seen。



  'Long may they kiss each other; for this cure!

  O; never let their crimson liveries wear!

  And as they last; their verdure still endure

  To drive infection from the dangerous year!

    That the star…gazers; having writ on death;

    May say; the plague is banished by thy breath。



  'Pure lips; sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted;

  What bargains may I make; still to be sealing?

  To sell myself I can be well contented;

  So thou wilt buy; and pay; and use good dealing;

    Which purchase if thou make; for fear of slips

    Set thy seal manual on my wax…red lips。



  'A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;

  And pay them at thy leisure; one by one。

  What is ten hundred touches unto thee?

  Are they not quickly told and quickly gone?

    Say for non…payment that the debt should double;

    Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?'



  'Fair queen;' quoth he; 'if any love you owe me;

  Measure my strangeness with my unripe years;

  Before I know myself; seek not to know me;

  No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears。

    The mellow plum doth fall; the green sticks fast;

    Or being early plucked is sour to taste。



  'Look; the world's comforter; with weary gait;

  His day's hot task hath ended in the west;

  The owl; night's herald; shrieks 'tis very late;

  The sheep are gone to fold; birds to their nest;

    And coal…black clouds that shadow heaven's light

    Do summon us to part; and bid good night。



  'Now let me say 〃Good night〃; and so say you;

  If you will say so; you shall have a kiss。'

  'Good night'; quoth she; and; ere he says 'Adieu';

  The honey fee of parting tend'red is:

    Her arms do lend his neck a sweet embrace;

    Incorporate then they seem; face grows to face。



  Till breathless he disjoined; and backward drew

  The heavenly moisture; that sweet coral mouth;

  Whose precious taste her thirsty lips well knew;

  Whereon they surfeit; yet complain on drouth。

    He with her plenty pressed; she faint with dearth;

    Their lips together glued; fall to the earth。



  Now quick desire hath caught the yielding prey;

  And glutton…like she feeds; yet never filleth;

  Her lips are conquerors; his lips obey;

  Paying what ransom the insulter willeth;

    Whose vulture thought doth pitch the price so high

    That she will draw his lips' rich treasure dry。



  And having felt the sweetness of the spoil;

  With blindfold fury she begins to forage;

  Her face doth reek and smoke; her blood doth boil;

  And careless lust stirs up a desperate courage。

    Planting oblivion; beating reason back;

    Forgetting shame's pure blush and honour's wrack。



  Hot; faint and weary; with her; hard embracing;

  Like a wild bird being tamed with too much handling;

  Or as the fleet…foot roe that's tired with chasing;

  Or like the froward infant stilled with dandling;

    He now obeys and now no more resisteth;

    While she takes all she can; not all she listeth。



  What wax so frozen but dissolves with temp'ring;

  And yields at last to every light impression?

  Things out of hope are compass'd oft with vent'ring;

  Chiefly in love; whose leave exceeds commission:

    Affection faints not like a pale…face coward;

    But then woos best when most his choice is froward。



  When he did frown; O; had she then gave over;

  Such nectar from his lips she had not sucked。

  Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover;

  What though the rose have prickles; yet 'tis plucked。

    Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast;

    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;


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