Showing fair nature is both kind and tame; "And veil'd in them, did win whom he would 66 maim: Against the thing he sought he would exclaim; "When he most burn'd in heart-wish'd luxury,31 "He preach'd pure maid, and prais'd cold chastity. "Thus merely with the garment of a Grace "The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd, "That the unexperienc'd gave the tempter place, Which, like a cherubin, above them hover'd. "Who, young and simple, would not be so lover'd? "Ah me! I fell; and yet do question make "What I should do again for such a sake. "O, that infected moisture of his eye, 66 66 O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow'd, O, that forc'd thunder from his heart did fly, "O, that sad breath his spungy lungs bestow'd, "O, all that borrow'd motion, seeming ow'd, 32 "Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd, "And new pervert a reconciled maid!" 31 luxury] i. e. lewdness. 32 ow'd] i. e. owned, his own. PASSIONATE PILGRIM. I. SWEET Cytherea, sitting by a brook, She show'd him favours to allure his eye; To win his heart, she touch'd him here and there: Then fell she on her back, fair queen, and toward; II. Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn, A brook, where Adon us'd to cool his spleen. Hot was For his approach, that often there had been. He spying her, bounc'd in, whereas he stood; III. Fair was the morn, when the fair queen of love, • 1 Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove, For Adon's sake, a youngster proud and wild ; Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill : Anon Adonis comes with horn and hounds; She silly queen, with more than love's good will, Forbade the boy he should not pass those grounds; Once, quoth she, did I see a fair sweet youth Here in these brakes deep-wounded with a boar, Deep in the thigh, a spectacle of ruth! See in my thigh, quoth she, here was the sore: She showed hers; he saw more wounds than one, And blushing fled, and left her all alone. IV. Venus with [young] Adonis sitting by her, Even thus, quoth she, the warlike god embrac'd me; V. Crabbed age and youth Youth like summer morn, Age like winter weather; Age's breath is short, Youth is nimble, age is lame: Age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee, O, my love, my love is young t I O sweet shepherd, hie thee, For methinks thou stay'st too long! VI. Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon vaded,2 Pluck'd in the bud, and vaded in the spring! Like a green plum that hangs upon a tree, weep for thee, and yet no cause I have; O yes, dear friend, I pardon crave of thee; VII. Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle, 2 vaded] Malone throughout these fragments altered the word to fuded, which is generally considered as synonimous ; yet Brathwait, in his Strappado for the Devil, 1615, (the exact reference to which I have mislaid) speaks of no fading, vading flower," and other poets make the same distinction between the words. |