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  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 s

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