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Could rule them both without ten women's wit。' 

     Thus hoping that Adonis is alive; 

       Her   rash   suspect   sile   doth   extenuate; And   that   his   beauty   may   the 

better thrive; With Death she humbly doth insinuate; 

       Tells   him   of   trophies;   statues;   tombs;   and   stories   His   victories;   his 



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triumphs; and his glories。 

     'O Jove!' quoth she; 'how much a fool was I; To be of such a weak and 

silly mind 

       To wail his death who lives and must not die Till mutual overthrow of 

mortal kind; For he being dead; with him is beauty slain; And; beauty dead; 

black chaos comes again。 

     'Fie; fie; fond love! thou art so full of fear As one with treasure laden; 

hemm'd   with   thieves   Trifles;   unwitnessed   with   eye   or   ear;   Thy   coward 

heart with false bethinking grieves。' 

       Even at this word she hears a merry horn Whereat she leaps that was 

but late forlorn。 

     As falcon to the lure; away she flies; The grass stoops not; she treads 

on it so light; 

       And in her haste unfortunately spies The foul boar's conquest on her 

fair delight; Which seen; her eyes; as murder'd with the view; Like stars 

asham'd of day; themselves withdrew: 

     Or; as the snail; whose tender horns being hit; 

       Shrinks    backwards     in  his   shelly  cave    with   pain;  And    there;   all 

smother'd up; in shade doth sit; Long after fearing to creep forth again; 

       So; at his bloody view; her eyes are fled Into the deep dark cabills of 

her head; 

     Where they resign their office and their light To the disposing of her 

troubled brain; 

       Who   bids   them  still   consort   with ugly  night; And   never   wound   the 

heart with looks again; Who; like a king perplexed in his throne; By their 

suggestion gives a deadly groan; 

     Whereat each tributary subject quakes; As when the wind; imprison'd 

in   the   ground;   Struggling   for   passage;   earth's   foundation   shakes;   Which 

with cold terror doth men's minds confound。 This mutiny each part doth so 

surprise l 

       That from their dark beds once more leap her eyes; 

     And;  being   open'd;   threw unwilling   light   Upon   the   wide   wound   that 

the boar had trench'd In his soft flank; whose wonted lily white 

       With purple tears; that his wound wept; was drench'd: No flower was 



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nigh; no grass; herb; leaf; or weed But stole his blood and seem'd with him 

to bleed。 

     This solemn sympathy poor Venus noteth; 

       Over   one   shoulder   doth   she   hang   her   head;   Dumbly   she   passions; 

franticly she doteth; She thinks he could not die; he is not dead: 

       Her voice is stopp'd; her joints forget to bow; Her eyes are mad that 

they have wept till now。 

     Upon his hurt she looks so steadfastly; That her sight dazzling makes 

the wound seem three; And then she reprehends her mangling eye; 

       That makes more gashes where no breach should be: His face seems 

twain;   each   several   limb   is   doubled;   For   oft   the   eye   mistakes;   the   brain 

being troubled。 

     'My tongue cannot express my grief for one; 

       And   yet;'   quoth   she;   'behold   two Adons   dead!   My   sighs   are   blown 

away; my salt tears gone; Mine eyes are turn'd to fire; my heart to lead: 

       Heavy heart's lead; melt at mine eyes' red fire! So shall I die by drops 

of hot desire。 

     'Alas!   poor   world;   what   treasure   hast   thou   lost!   What   face   remains 

alive that's worth the viewing? Whose tongue is music now? what canst 

thou boast Of things long since; or anything ensuing? 

       The   flowers   are   sweet;   their   colours   fresh   and   trim;   But   true…sweet 

beauty liv'd and died with him。 

     'Bonnet nor veil henceforth no creature wear! 

       Nor sun nor wind will ever strive to kiss you: Having no fair to lose; 

you need not fear; The sun doth scorn you; and the wind doth hiss you: 

But when Adonis liv'd; sun and sharp air 

       Lurk'd like two thieves; to rob him of his fair: 

     'And   therefore   would   he   put   his   bonnet   on;   Under   whose   brim   the 

gaudy sun would peep; 

       The   wind   would   blow   it   off;   and;   being   gone;   Play   with   his   locks: 

then would Adonis weep; And straight; in pity of his tender years; They 

both would strive who first should dry his tears。 

     'To see his face the lion walk'd along 

       Behind   some   hedge;   because   he   would   not   fear   him;   To   recreate 



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himself when he hath sung; The tiger would be tame and gently hear him; 

       If he had spoke; the wolf would leave his prey; And never fright the 

silly lamb that day。 

     'When he beheld his shadow in the brook; The fishes spread on it their 

golden gills; 

       When he was by; the birds such pleasure took; That some would sing; 

some other in their bills Would bring him mulberries and ripe…red cherries 

He fed them with his sight; they him with berries。 

     'But this foul; grim; and urchin…spouted boar; 

       Whose      downward       eye   still  looketh    for  a  grave;    Ne'er   saw    the 

beauteous livery that he wore; Witness the entertainment that he gave: 

       If he did see his face; why then I know He thought to kiss him; and 

hath killed him so。 

     ''Tis true; 'tis true; thus was Adonis slain: He ran upon the boar with his 

sharp spear; 

       Who   did   not   whet   his   teeth   at   him  again;   But   by  a   kiss   thought   to 

persuade him there; And nuzzling in his flank; the loving swine Sheath'd 

unaware the tusk in his soft groin。 

     'Had I been tooth'd like him; I must confess; With kissing him I should 

have kill'd him first; But he is dead; and never did he bless My youth with 

his; the more am I accurst。' 

       With this she falleth in the place she stood; And stains her face with 

his congealed blood。 

     Sho looks upon his lips; and they are pale; She takes him by the hand; 

and that is cold; 

       She   whispers   in   his   ears   a   heavy   tale; As   if   they   heard   the   woeful 

words she told; She lifts the coffer…lids that close his eyes; Where; lo! two 

lamps; burnt out; in darkness lies; 

     Two glasses where herself herself beheld 

       A thousand times; and now no more reflect; Their virtue lost; wherein 

they late excell'd; And every beauty robb'd of his effect: 

       'Wonder of time;' quoth she; 'this is my spite; That; you being dead; 

the day should yet be light。 

     'Since   thou   art   dead;   lo!   here   I   prophesy;   Sorrow   on   love   hereafter 



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shall attend: 

       It  shall   be   waited    on   with   jealousy;    Find    sweet    beginning;     but 

unsavoury   end;   Ne'er   settled   equally;   but   high   or   low;   That   all   love's 

pleasure shall not match his woe。 

     'It shall be fickle; false; and full of fraud; 

       Bud and be blastod in a breathing…while; The bottom poison; and the 

top o'erstraw'd With sweets that shall the truest sight beguile: 

       The   strongest   body  shall   it   make   most   weak;   Strike the   wise   dumb 

and teach the fool to speak。 

     'It shall be sparing and too full of riot; Teaching decrepit age to tread 

the measures; 

       The staring ruffian shall it keep in quiet; Pluck down the rich; enrich 

the poor with treasures; It shall be raging mad; and silly mild; Make the 

young old; the old become a child。 

     'It   shall   suspect   where   is   no   cause   of   fear;   It   shall   not   fear   where   it 

should     most    mistrust;   It  shall  be   merciful;    and   too   severe;

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