"'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 My youth with his; the more am I accurst." She looks upon his lips, and they are pale ; lies : eyes, Two glasses where herself herself beheld "Wonder of time," quoth she, "this is my spite, 66 That, you being dead, the day should yet be light. “Since thou art dead, lo! here I prophesy, woe. "It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud; "Bud and be blasted 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, “And most deceiving, when it seems most just; 44 steps. measures] A measure was a solemn dance with measured "Perverse it shall be, where it shows most toward, Put fear to valour, courage to the coward. 66 "It shall be cause of war, and dire events, 66 66 "Sith in his prime death doth my love destroy, They that love best, their loves shall not enjoy." By this, the boy that by her side lay kill'd, stood. She bows her head, the new sprung tears. compares to "Poor flower,” quoth she, "this was thy father's 66 guise, (Sweet issue of a more sweet smelling sire) "For every little grief to wet his eyes: “Here was thy father's bed, here in my breast; “Thou art the next of blood, and 'tis thy right: "Lo! in this hollow cradle take thy rest, "Mythrobbing heart shall rock thee day and night: "There shall not be one minute in an hour "Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love's flower." Thus weary of the world, away she hies, queen Means to immure herself, and not be seen. |