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now no more resisteth; While she takes all she can; not all she listeth。 



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     What wax so frozen but dissolves with tempering; And yields at last to 

every     light  impression?     Things    out   of  hope    are  compass'd      oft  with 

venturing; Chiefly in love; whose leave exceeds commission: 

       Affection   faints   not   like   a   pale…fac'd   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 suck'd。 

       Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover; What though the rose 

have prickles; yet 'tis pluck'd: 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 resolv'd 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 cheeks; 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 as poor birds; deceiv'd 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 kindle 



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with continual kissing。 

     But all in vain; good queen; it will not be: She hath assay'd as much as 

may be prov'd; 

       Her pleading hath deserv'd a greater fee; She's Love; she loves; and 

yet she is not lov'd。 '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 advis'd; thou know'st not what 

it is With javelin's point a churlish swine to gore; 

       Whose     tushes    never   sheath'd    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 mov'd; he strikes whate'er is in his way; 

And whom he strikes his crooked tushes slay。 

     'His brawny sides; with hairy bristles arm'd; Are better proof than thy 

spear's   point   can   enter;   His   short   thick   neck   cannot   be   easily   harm'd; 

Being ireful; on the lion he will venture: 

       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 pay 

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 fear'd thy fortune; and 

my joints did tremble。 

     'Didst thou not mark my face? was it not white? Saw'st thou not signs 

of fear lurk in mine eye? 

       Grew     I  not  faint?  And    fell  I  not  downright?      Within    my   bosom; 



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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!〃 

       Distempering 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 stain'd 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  the 

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 rul'd by me; Uncouple at the timorous 

flying hare; Or at the fox which lives by subtilty; Or at the roe which no 

encounter dare: 

       Pursue    these    fearful   creatures   o'er   the  downs;     And    on   thy  well… 

breath'd horse keep with thy hound。 

     'And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare; Mark the poor wretch; 

to overshoot his troubles 

       How he outruns the winds; 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 



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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 

listening   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 briar his weary legs doth scratch; Each shadow makes 

him stop; each murmur stay: For misery is trodden on by many; And being 

low never reliev'd 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; 

    

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