nus and adonis(维纳斯和阿多尼斯)-第4章
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Loseth his pride; and never waxeth strong。
'You hurt my hand with wringing Iet us part; And leave this idle theme;
this bootless chat: Remove your siege from my unyielding heart; To love's
alarms it will not ope the gate:
Dismiss your vows; your feigned tears; your flattery; For where a
heart is hard they make no battery。'
'What! canst thou talk?' quoth she; 'hast thou a tongue? O! would thou
hadst not; or I had no hearing;
Thy mermaid's voice hath done me double wrong; I had my load
before; now press'd with bearing: Melodious discord; heavenly tune;
harsh…sounding; Ear's deep…sweet music; and heart's deep…sore wounding。
'Had I no eyes but ears; my ears would love
That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf; thy outward parts
would move Each part in me that were but sensible:
Though neither eyes nor ears; to hear nor see; Yet should I be in love
by touching thee。
'Say; that the sense of feeling were bereft me; And that I could not see;
nor hear; nor touch;
And nothing but the very smell were left me; Yet would my love to
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thee be still as much; For from the stillitory of thy face excelling Comes
breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling。
'But O! what banquet wert thou to the taste;
Being nurse and feeder of the other four; Would they not wish the
feast might ever last; And bid Suspicion double…lock the door; Lest
Jealousy; that sour unwelcome guest; Should; by his stealing in; disturb the
feast?'
Once more the ruby…colour'd portal open'd; Which to his speech did
honey passage yield;
Like a red morn; that ever yet betoken'd Wrack to the seaman;
tempest to the field; Sorrow to shepherds; woe unto the birds; Gusts and
foul flaws to herdmen and to herds。
This ill presage advisedly she marketh: Even as the wind is hush'd
before it raineth; Or as the wolf doth grin before he barketh; Or as the
berry breaks before it staineth;
Or like the deadly bullet of a gun; His meaning struck her ere his
words begun。
And at his look she flatly falleth down For looks kill love; and love by
looks reviveth;
A smile recures the wounding of a frown; But blessed bankrupt; that
by love so thriveth! The silly boy; believing she is dead Claps her pale
cheek; till clapping makes it red;
And all amaz'd brake off his late intent; For sharply he did think to
reprehend her; Which cunning love did wittily prevent: Fair fall the wit
that can so well defend her!
For on the grass she lies as she were slain Till his breath breatheth
life in her again。
He wrings her nose; he strikes her on the cheeks; He bends her fingers;
holds her pulses hard;
He chafes her lips; a thousand ways he seeks To mend the hurt that
his unkindness marr'd: He kisses her; and she; by her good will; Will never
rise; so he will kiss her still。
The night of sorrow now is turn'd to day: Her two blue windows
faintly she up…heaveth; Like the fair sun; when in his fresh array He cheers
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the morn; and all the world relieveth:
And as the bright sun glorifies the sky; So is her face illumin'd with
her eye;
Whose beams upon his hairless face are fix'd; As if from thence they
borrow'd all their shine。
Were never four such lamps together mix'd; Had not his clouded with
his brow's repine; But hers; which through the crystal tears gave light
Shone like the moon in water seen by night。
'O! where am I?' quoth she; 'in earth or heaven; Or in the ocean
drench'd; or in the fire? What hour is this? or morn or weary even? Do I
delight to die; or life desire?
But now I liv'd; 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
murder'd 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
banish'd 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
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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 pluck'd 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 tender'd is: Her arms do lend his neck a sweet embrace;
Incorporate then they seem; face grows to face。
Till; breathless; he disjoin'd; 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 press'd; she faint with dearth; Their lips together
glu'd; 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
tam'd with too much handling; Or as the fleet…foot roe that's tir'd with
chasing;
Or like the froward infant still'd with dandling; He now obeys; and
now no more resisteth; While she takes all she can; not all she listeth。