Would bring him mulberries, and ripe-red cher ries: He fed them with his sight, they him with berries. • But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar. If he did see his face, why, then I know, ''Tis true, 'tis true; thus was Adonis slain : • Had I been tooth'd like him, I must confess, She looks upon his lips, and they are pale; i.e. snouted like a hedgehog. She whispers in his ears a heavy tale, She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes, Where, lo! two lamps, burnt out in darkness lies: Two glasses, where herself herself beheld • 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, Find sweet beginning, but unsavory end; Ne'er settled equally, but high or low; That all love's pleasure shall not matel his woe: • It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud; speak : • It shall be sparing, and too full of riot, Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures; 1 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 be cause of war and dire events, Sith in his prime death doth my love destroy, By this, the boy, that by her side lay kill'd, A measure was a slow and stately dance. She bows her head, the new-sprung flower to smell. Comparing it to her Adonis' breath; And says, within her bosom it shall dwell, Since he himself is reft from her by death: She crops the stalk, and in the breach appears Green dropping sap, which she compares to tears. 'Foor flower!' quoth she, 'this was thy fathers guise, (Sweet issue of a more sweet-smelling sire) For every little grief to wet his eyes : To grow unto himself was his desire, And so 'tis thine; but know, it is as good • Here was thy father's bed, here in my breast; Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love's flower.' Thus, weary of the world, away she hies, Holding their course to Paphos, where thei queen Meens to immure herself, and not be seen. |