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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。 



                      

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