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    For know; my heart stands armed in mine ear;

    And will not let a false sound enter there;



  'Lest the deceiving harmony should run

  Into the quiet closure of my breast;

  And then my little heart were quite undone;

  In his bedchamber to be barred of rest。

    No; lady; no; my heart longs not to groan;

    But soundly sleeps; while now it sleeps alone。



  'What have you urged that I cannot reprove?

  The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger;

  I hate not love; but your device in love

  That lends embracements unto every stranger。

    You do it for increase: O strange excuse;

    When reason is the bawd to lust's abuse!



  'Call it not love; for Love to heaven is fled

  Since sweating Lust on earth usurped his name;

  Under whose simple semblance he hath fed

  Upon fresh beauty; blotting it with blame;

    Which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves;


    As caterpillars do the tender leaves。



  'Love comforteth like sunshine after rain;

  But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;

  Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;

  Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;

    Love surfeits not; Lust like a glutton dies;

    Love is all truth; Lust full of forged lies。



  'More I could tell; but more I dare not say;

  The text is old; the orator too green。

  Therefore; in sadness; now I will away;

  My face is full of shame; my heart of teen:

    Mine ears that to your wanton talk attended

    Do burn themselves for having so offended。'



  With this; he breaketh from the sweet embrace

  Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast;

  And homeward through the dark lawnd runs apace;

  Leaves Love upon her back deeply distressed。

    Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky;

    So glides he in the night from Venus' eye;



  Which after him she darts; as one on shore

  Gazing upon a late…embarked friend;

  Till the wild waves will have him seen no more;

  Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend;

    So did the merciless and pitchy night

    Fold in the object that did feed her sight。



  Whereat amazed as one that unaware

  Hath dropped a precious jewel in the flood;

  Or 'stonished as night…wand'rers often are;

  Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood;

    Even so confounded in the dark she lay;

    Having lost the fair discovery of her way。



  And now she beats her heart; whereat it groans;

  That all the neighbour caves; as seeming troubled;

  Make verbal repetition of her moans;

  Passion on passion deeply is redoubled:

    'Ay me!' she cries; and twenty times; 'Woe; woe!'

    And twenty echoes twenty times cry so。



  She; marking them; begins a wailing note;

  And sings extemporally a woeful ditty;

  How love makes young men thrall; and old men dote;

  How love is wise in folly; foolish witty:

    Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe;

    And still the choir of echoes answer so。



  Her song was tedious; and outwore the night;

  For lovers' hours are long; though seeming short;

  If pleased themselves; others; they think; delight

  In such…like circumstance; with such…like sport。

    Their copious stories; oftentimes begun;

    End without audience; and are never done。



  For who hath she to spend the night withal

  But idle sounds resembling parasites;

  Like shrill…tongued tapsters answering every call;

  Soothing the humour of fantastic wits?

    She says ''Tis so'; they answer all ''Tis so';

    And would say after her; if she said 'No'。



  Lo; here the gentle lark; weary of rest;

  From his moist cabinet mounts up on high;

  And wakes the morning; from whose silver breast

  The sun ariseth in his majesty;

    Who doth the world so gloriously behold

    That cedar…tops and hills seem burnished gold。



  Venus salutes him with this fair good…morrow:

  'O thou clear god; and patron of all light;

  From whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow

  The beauteous influence that makes him bright;

    There lives a son that sucked an earthly mother

    May lend thee light; as thou dost lend to other。'



  This said; she hasteth to a myrtle grove;

  Musing the morning is so much o'erworn;

  And yet she hears no tidings of her love;

  She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn。

    Anon she hears them chant it lustily;

    And all in haste she coasteth to the cry。



  And as she runs; the bushes in the way

  Some catch her by the neck; some kiss her face;

  Some twind about her thigh to make her stay;

  She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace;

    Like a milch doe; whose swelling dugs do ache;

    Hasting to feed her fawn hid in some brake。



  By this she hears the hounds are at a bay;

  Whereat she starts; like one that spies an adder

  Wreathed up in fatal folds just in his way;

  The fear whereof doth make him shake and shudder;

    Even so the timorous yelping of the hounds

    Appals her senses and her spirit confounds。



  For now she knows it is no gentle chase;

  But the blunt boar; rough bear; or lion proud;

  Because the cry remaineth in one place;

  Where fearfully the dogs exclaim aloud。

    Finding their enemy to be so curst;

    They all strain court'sy who shall cope him first。



  This dismal cry rings sadly in her car;

  Through which it enters to surprise her heart;

  Who; overcome by doubt and bloodless fear;

  With cold…pale weakness numbs each feeling part;

    Like soldiers; when their captain once doth yield;

    They basely fly and dare not stay the field。



  Thus stands she in a trembling ecstasy;

  Till; cheering up her senses all dismayed;

  She tells them 'tis a causeless fantasy;

  And childish error; that they are afraid;

    Bids them leave quaking; bids them fear no more;

    And with that word she spied the hunted boar;



  Whose frothy mouth; bepainted all with red;

  Like milk and blood being mingled both together;

  A second fear through all her sinews spread;

  Which madly hurries her she knows not whither:

    This way she runs; and now she will no further;

    But back retires to rate the boar for murther。



  A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways;

  She treads the path that she untreads again;

  Her more than haste is mated with delays;

  Like the proceedings of a drunken brain;

    Full of respects; yet nought at all respecting;

    In hand with all things; nought at all effecting。



  Here kennelled in a brake she finds a hound;

  And asks the weary caitiff for his master;

  And there another licking of his wound;

  'Gainst venomed sores the only sovereign plaster;

    And here she meets another sadly scowling;

    To whom she speaks; and he replies with howling。



  When he hath ceased his ill…resounding noise;

  Another flap…mouthed mourner; black and grim;

  Against the welkin volleys out his voice;

  Another and another answer him;

    Clapping their proud tails to the ground below;

    Shaking their scratched ears; bleeding as they go。



  Look how the world's poor people are amazed

  At apparitions; signs and prodigies;

  Whereon with fearful eyes they long have gazed;

  Infusing them with dreadful prophecies;

    So she at these sad signs draws up her breath;

    And; sighing it again; exclaims on Death。



  'Hard…favoured tyrant; ugly; meagre; lean;

  Hateful divorce of love'… thus chides she Death…

  'Grim…grinning ghost; earth's worm; what dost thou mean

  To stifle beauty and to steal his breath

    Who when he lived; his breath and beauty set

    Gloss on the rose; smell to the violet?



  'If he be dead… O no; it cannot be;

  Seeing his beauty; thou shouldst strike at it…

  O yes; it may; thou hast no eyes to see;

  But hatefully at random dost thou hit。

    Thy mark is feeble age; but thy false dart

    Mistakes that aim; and cleaves an infant's heart。



  'Hadst thou but bid be

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