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- 0:00Speaker 1: To the right Honorable Henry Risley, Earl of Southampton and
- 0:04Speaker 1: Baron of Titchfield. Right honorable, I know not how I
- 0:09Speaker 1: shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship,
- 0:13Speaker 1: nor how the world will censure me for choosing so
- 0:16Speaker 1: strong a prop to support so weak a burden. Only
- 0:20Speaker 1: if your honor seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised,
- 0:24Speaker 1: and vow to take advantage of all idle hours till
- 0:28Speaker 1: I have honored you with some graver labor. But if
- 0:32Speaker 1: the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall
- 0:35Speaker 1: be sorry it had so noble a godfather, and never
- 0:39Speaker 1: after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield
- 0:42Speaker 1: me still so bad a harvest. I leave it to
- 0:46Speaker 1: your honorable survey and your honor, to your heart's content,
- 0:51Speaker 1: which I wish may always answer your own wish and
- 0:54Speaker 1: the world's hopeful expectation. Your honors in all duty. William Shakespeare.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Even as the sun with purple colored face had tan
- 1:07Speaker 1: his last leave of the weeping morn, rose cheeked Adonnis
- 1:11Speaker 1: tried him to the chase, hunting he loved, but love
- 1:16Speaker 1: he laughed to scorn. Sick thoughted venus makes a man
- 1:20Speaker 1: unto him, and like a bold faced suitor, gins to
- 1:25Speaker 1: woo him.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Thrice fairer than myself.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Thus she began.
- 1:30Speaker 2: The field's chief flower. Sweet above compare stained to all nymphs,
- 1:36Speaker 2: more lovely than a man, more white and red than
- 1:39Speaker 2: doves or roses. Are nature that made thee, with herself
- 1:43Speaker 2: its strife. Saith that the world hath ending with thy life,
- 1:48Speaker 2: vouchsafe thou wonder to alight thy steed and rain his
- 1:52Speaker 2: proud head to the saddle bow, if thou wilt deign
- 1:55Speaker 2: this favor for thy need. A thousand honey secrets, shall
- 2:00Speaker 2: thou know. Here, come and sit where never serpent hisses,
- 2:04Speaker 2: and being set, I'll smother thee with kisses, and yet
- 2:08Speaker 2: not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety, but rather famish
- 2:12Speaker 2: them amid their plenty, making them red and pale with
- 2:16Speaker 2: fresh variety. Ten kisses short as one, one long as
- 2:21Speaker 2: twenty a summer's day will seem an hour, but short,
- 2:25Speaker 2: being wasted in such time, beguiling sport.
- 2:28Speaker 1: With this, she seizeth on his sweating palm, the precedent
- 2:32Speaker 1: of pith and livelihood, and trembling in her passion calls
- 2:36Speaker 1: it balm Earth's sovereign salve to do a goddess good.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Being so enraged desire doth lend her force courageously to
- 2:46Speaker 1: pluck him from his horse over one arm. The lusty
- 2:50Speaker 1: courser's reign under her other was the tender boy, who
- 2:54Speaker 1: blushed and pouted in a dull disdain. With leaden appetite,
- 2:59Speaker 1: unapt to toy, she red, and hot as coals of
- 3:04Speaker 1: glowing fire. He red for shame, but frosty in desire.
- 3:10Speaker 1: The studded bridle on a ragged bough. Nimbly she fastens,
- 3:14Speaker 1: Oh how quick is love? The steed is stalled up,
- 3:19Speaker 1: and even now to tie the rider she begins to
- 3:22Speaker 1: prove backward. She pushed him as she would be thrust,
- 3:27Speaker 1: and govern him in strength, though not in lust. So
- 3:32Speaker 1: soon was she along as he was down, each leaning
- 3:35Speaker 1: on their elbows and their hips. Now doth she stroke
- 3:39Speaker 1: his cheek? Now doth he frown and gins to chide.
- 3:44Speaker 1: But soon she stops his lips and kissing, speaks with
- 3:49Speaker 1: lustful language broken.
- 3:51Speaker 2: If thou wilt chide, thy lips shall never open.
- 3:56Speaker 1: He burns with bashful shame. She with her tears quench
- 4:00Speaker 1: the maiden burning of his cheeks, then with her windy
- 4:04Speaker 1: sighs and golden hairs to fan and blow them dry again.
- 4:08Speaker 1: She seeks, he saith. She is immodest, blames her miss.
- 4:14Speaker 1: What follows more, she murders with a kiss, even as
- 4:19Speaker 1: an empty eagle, sharp by fast tires, with her beak
- 4:23Speaker 1: on feathers, flesh and bone, shaking her wings, devouring all
- 4:28Speaker 1: in haste, till either gorge be stuffed or prey be gone.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Even so she kissed his brow, his cheek, his chin,
- 4:38Speaker 1: And where she ends she doth anew begin, forced to content,
- 4:44Speaker 1: but never to obey. Panting, he lies and breatheth in
- 4:48Speaker 1: her face. She feedeth on the steam as on a prey,
- 4:52Speaker 1: and calls it heavenly moisture, air of grace, wishing her
- 4:57Speaker 1: cheeks were gardens full of flowers, so they were dewed
- 5:01Speaker 1: with such distilling showers. Look how a bird lies tangled
- 5:07Speaker 1: in a net, so fastened in her arms adonnis lies
- 5:11Speaker 1: pure shame and awed resistance made him fret, which bread
- 5:16Speaker 1: more beauty in his angry eyes. Rain added to a
- 5:20Speaker 1: river that his rank perforce will force it overflow the bank.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Still she entreats, and prettily entreats for to a pretty ear,
- 5:30Speaker 1: she tunes her tail. Still is he sullen? Still he
- 5:34Speaker 1: lowers and frets TwixT crimson, shame and anger, ashy pale,
- 5:40Speaker 1: being red, she loves him best, and being white, her
- 5:44Speaker 1: best is bettered with a more delight look. How he
- 5:47Speaker 1: can she cannot choose but love, And by her fair,
- 5:51Speaker 1: immortal hand, she swears from his soft bosom, never to
- 5:55Speaker 1: remove till he take truce with her contending tears which
- 6:00Speaker 1: long have reigned, making her cheeks all wet. And one
- 6:04Speaker 1: sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt. Upon this promise
- 6:10Speaker 1: did he raise his chin like a dive dapper peering
- 6:13Speaker 1: through a wave, who, being looked on, ducks as quickly
- 6:17Speaker 1: in so offers he to give what she did crave.
- 6:21Speaker 1: But when her lips were ready for his pay, he
- 6:24Speaker 1: winks and turns his lips another way. Never did passenger,
- 6:29Speaker 1: in summer's heat more thirst for drink than she for
- 6:33Speaker 1: this good turn her help she sees, but help she
- 6:36Speaker 1: cannot get. She bathes in water, yet her fire must burn.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Oh pity, gan, she cry, flint hearted boy, tis but
- 6:47Speaker 2: a kiss? I beg Why art thou coy. I have
- 6:51Speaker 2: been wooed, as I entreat thee now, even by the
- 6:54Speaker 2: stern and direful god of war, whose sinewy neck in
- 6:57Speaker 2: battle ne'er did bow, who come where he comes in
- 7:01Speaker 2: every jar. Yet hath he been my captive and my slave,
- 7:05Speaker 2: and begged for that which thou, unasked shall have over
- 7:10Speaker 2: my altars. Hath he hung his lance, his batter'd shield,
- 7:14Speaker 2: his uncontrolled crest, And for my sake hath learn'd to
- 7:18Speaker 2: sport and dance, to toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest,
- 7:24Speaker 2: scorning his churlish drum, and ends in red, making my
- 7:27Speaker 2: arms his field, his tent, my bed. Thus he that
- 7:32Speaker 2: overruled I overswayed, leading him prisoner in a rose red chain,
- 7:37Speaker 2: strong temper'd steel, His stronger strength obeyed. Yet was he
- 7:42Speaker 2: servile to my coy disdain? Oh, be not proud, nor
- 7:46Speaker 2: brag not of thy might for mastering her that foils
- 7:50Speaker 2: the god of fight. Touch But my lips, with those
- 7:54Speaker 2: fair lips of thine, though mine be not so fair,
- 7:57Speaker 2: Yet are they read? The kiss shall be thyine own
- 8:00Speaker 2: as well as mine. What seest thou in the ground,
- 8:03Speaker 2: hold up thy head, look in mine eyeballs. There thy
- 8:07Speaker 2: beauty lies. Then why not lips on lips? Since eyes
- 8:11Speaker 2: in eyes art thou ashamed to kiss? Then wink again,
- 8:16Speaker 2: and I will wink, so shall the day seem night.
- 8:19Speaker 2: Love keeps his revels where there are, but twain be
- 8:23Speaker 2: bold to play. Our sport is not in sight, These
- 8:27Speaker 2: blue veined violets, whereon we lean, never can blab, nor
- 8:31Speaker 2: know not what we mean. The tender spring upon thy
- 8:35Speaker 2: tempting lip shows thee unripe. Yet mayest thou well be tasted.
- 8:39Speaker 2: Make use of time, Let not advantage slip. Beauty within
- 8:44Speaker 2: itself should not be wasted. Fair flowers that are not
- 8:48Speaker 2: gathered in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Were I hard favored, foul or wrinkled, old, ill, nurtured, crooked,
- 8:59Speaker 2: churlish heart, voice, or worn, despised, rheumatic and cold, thick, sighted, barren,
- 9:06Speaker 2: lean and lacking juice, then mightst thou pause, for then
- 9:10Speaker 2: I were not for thee, but having no defects, Why
- 9:14Speaker 2: dost abhor me? Thou canst not see one wrinkle in
- 9:18Speaker 2: my brow? Mine eyes are gray and bright and quick
- 9:22Speaker 2: in turning my beauty as the spring doth yearly grow.
- 9:26Speaker 2: My flesh is soft and plump, my marrow burning my smooth,
- 9:31Speaker 2: moist hand. Were it with thy hand felt, would in
- 9:35Speaker 2: thy palm dissolve or seem to melt? Bid me discourse,
- 9:39Speaker 2: I will enchant thine ear, or like a fairy trip
- 9:43Speaker 2: upon the green, or like a nymph with long disheveled hair,
- 9:47Speaker 2: dance on the sands. And yet no footing seen. Love
- 9:52Speaker 2: is a spirit all compact of fire, not gross to sink,
- 9:56Speaker 2: but light and will aspire. Witness this pri rose bank
- 10:00Speaker 2: whereon I lie. These forceless flowers, like sturdy trees, support me.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky from
- 10:09Speaker 2: morn till night, even were I list to sport me.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Is love so light, sweet boy? And may it be
- 10:16Speaker 2: that thou shouldst think it heavy? Unto thee is thine
- 10:20Speaker 2: own heart, to thine own face affected? Can thy right
- 10:24Speaker 2: hand seize love upon thy left? Then woo thyself, be
- 10:28Speaker 2: of thyself rejected, steal thine own freedom, and complain on
- 10:32Speaker 2: theft Narcissus so himself himself forsook and died to kiss
- 10:38Speaker 2: his shadow in the brook. Torches are made to light
- 10:42Speaker 2: jewels to wear dainties to taste fresh beauty for the use,
- 10:46Speaker 2: herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear. Things
- 10:50Speaker 2: growing to themselves are growth's abuse. Seeds spring from seeds,
- 10:55Speaker 2: and beauty breedeth beauty. Thou wast begot to get. It
- 11:00Speaker 2: is thy duty upon the earth's increase. Why shouldst thou
- 11:04Speaker 2: feed unless the earth, with thy increase be fed by
- 11:08Speaker 2: law of nature, Thou art bound to breed that thine
- 11:11Speaker 2: may live when thou thyself art dead, And so in
- 11:15Speaker 2: spite of death, thou dost survive in that thy likeness
- 11:19Speaker 2: still is left alive.
- 11:21Speaker 1: By this, the love sick Queen began to sweat for
- 11:25Speaker 1: where they lay the shadow had forsook them, and Titan,
- 11:29Speaker 1: tired in the midday heat, with burning eye, did hotly
- 11:32Speaker 1: overlook them, wishing Adonis had his team to guide, so
- 11:37Speaker 1: he were like him and by Venus's side. And now Adonis,
- 11:42Speaker 1: with a lazy sprite and with a heavy, dark, disliking eye,
- 11:46Speaker 1: his lowering brows o'erwhelming his fair sight like misty vapors
- 11:51Speaker 1: when they blotch the sky, souring his cheeks.
- 11:54Speaker 3: Cries, fie no more of love. The sun doth burn
- 11:59Speaker 3: my face I must remove.
- 12:02Speaker 2: I me quoth venus, young and so unkind, What bare
- 12:08Speaker 2: excuses makes thou to be gone? I'll sigh celestial breath,
- 12:12Speaker 2: whose gentle wind shall cool the heat of this descending sun.
- 12:16Speaker 2: I'll make a shadow for thee of my hairs. If
- 12:19Speaker 2: they burn too, I'll quench them with my tears. The
- 12:23Speaker 2: sun that shines from heaven shines but warm, and lo
- 12:26Speaker 2: I lie between that sun and thee. The heat I
- 12:29Speaker 2: have from thence doth little harm. Thine eye darts forth
- 12:33Speaker 2: the fire that burneth me, And were I not immortal,
- 12:37Speaker 2: life were done between this heavenly and earthly sun. Art
- 12:41Speaker 2: thou obdurate flinty hard as steel, nay more than flint
- 12:45Speaker 2: for stone at rain? Relenteth art thou a woman's son,
- 12:49Speaker 2: and canst not feel what tis to love? How want
- 12:53Speaker 2: of love? Tormenteth? Oh? Had thy mother borne so hard
- 12:56Speaker 2: a mind? She had not brought forth thee, but died
- 12:59Speaker 2: un kind? What am I that thou shouldst condemn me thus?
- 13:04Speaker 2: Or what great danger dwells upon my suit? What were
- 13:08Speaker 2: thy lips the worse? For one poor kiss? Speak fair?
- 13:12Speaker 2: But speak fair words, or else be mute. Give me
- 13:16Speaker 2: one kiss. I'll give it thee again, and one for interest.
- 13:19Speaker 2: If thou wilt have twain fine lifeless picture, cold and
- 13:25Speaker 2: senseless stone, well painted, idle image, dull and dead statue, contenting,
- 13:31Speaker 2: but the eye alone, thing like a man, but of
- 13:34Speaker 2: no woman bread Thou art no man, though of a
- 13:37Speaker 2: man's complexion, for men will kiss, even by their own direction.
- 13:42Speaker 1: This said impatience chokes her pleading tongue and swelling passion
- 13:47Speaker 1: doth provoke a pause. Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze
- 13:51Speaker 1: forth her wrong being judge in love, she cannot right
- 13:55Speaker 1: her cause. And now she weeps, And now she fain
- 13:59Speaker 1: would speak, And now her sobs do her intendments break.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Sometimes she shakes her head, and then his hand now gazeth.
- 14:09Speaker 1: She on him, now on the ground. Sometimes her arms
- 14:13Speaker 1: enfold him like a band. She would he will not,
- 14:17Speaker 1: in her arms be bound. And when from thence he
- 14:20Speaker 1: struggles to be gone, she locks her lily fingers one
- 14:24Speaker 1: in one fondling, she saith.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Since I have hemmed thee here, within the circuit of
- 14:31Speaker 2: this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt
- 14:34Speaker 2: be my dear feed. Where thou wilt on mountain or
- 14:38Speaker 2: in dale, graze on my lips. And if those hills
- 14:42Speaker 2: be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie. Within
- 14:47Speaker 2: this limit is relief enough, sweet bottom grass and high,
- 14:51Speaker 2: delightful plain, round rising hillocks, breaks obscure and rough, to
- 14:56Speaker 2: shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Then be my dear,
- 15:00Speaker 2: since I am such a park, no dog shall rouse thee.
- 15:04Speaker 2: Though a thousand bark.
- 15:06Speaker 1: At this, Adonis smiles as in disdain, that in each
- 15:10Speaker 1: cheek appears a pretty dimple. Love made those hollows. If
- 15:15Speaker 1: himself were slain, he might be buried in a tomb
- 15:18Speaker 1: so simple, for knowing well, if there he came to lie,
- 15:23Speaker 1: why there love lived, and there he could not die.
- 15:28Speaker 1: These lovely caves, these round, enchanting pits, opened their mouths
- 15:33Speaker 1: to swallow Venus's liking. Being mad before, how doth she now,
- 15:38Speaker 1: for wits struck dead at first? What needs a second? Striking,
- 15:43Speaker 1: poor queen of love in thine own law, forlorn to
- 15:47Speaker 1: love a cheek that smiles at thee in scorn. Now
- 15:51Speaker 1: which way shall she turn? What shall she say? Her
- 15:55Speaker 1: words are done, her woes the more increasing the time
- 15:59Speaker 1: is bent. Her object will away and from her twining arms,
- 16:03Speaker 1: doth urge, releasing pity.
- 16:06Speaker 2: She cries some favor, some remorse.
- 16:10Speaker 1: Away he springs and hasteth to his horse, but lo
- 16:15Speaker 1: from forth a colpse that neighbors by a breeding janet, lusty,
- 16:19Speaker 1: young and proud adonis tramping courier, doth a spy. And
- 16:24Speaker 1: forth she rushes, snorts, and neighs aloud. The strong necked steed,
- 16:29Speaker 1: being tied unto a tree, breaketh his rein, and to
- 16:33Speaker 1: her straight goes he imperiously. He leaps, he neighs, he bounds,
- 16:39Speaker 1: and now his woven girths he breaks asunder the bearing
- 16:42Speaker 1: earth with his hard hoof he wounds, whose hollow womb
- 16:46Speaker 1: resounds like Heaven's thunder. The iron bit he crusheth between
- 16:51Speaker 1: his teeth, controlling what he was controlled. With his ears
- 16:56Speaker 1: up pricked, his braided hanging mane upon his compassed crest,
- 16:59Speaker 1: now stand on end. His nostrils drink the air, and
- 17:03Speaker 1: forth again, as from a furnace vapors doth he send
- 17:08Speaker 1: his eye, which scornfully glisters like fire, shows his hot
- 17:12Speaker 1: courage and his high desire. Sometime he trots, as if
- 17:16Speaker 1: he told the steps with gentle majesty, and modest pride. Anon,
- 17:21Speaker 1: he rears upright, curvets and leaps as who should say, lo,
- 17:27Speaker 1: Thus my strength is tried, And this I do to
- 17:31Speaker 1: captivate the eye of the fair breeder, that is standing
- 17:34Speaker 1: by what recketh he his rider's angry stir, his flattering holla,
- 17:41Speaker 1: or his stand. I say, what cares he now for
- 17:45Speaker 1: curb or pricking spur, for rich caparisons or trapping gay?
- 17:50Speaker 1: He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, nor
- 17:54Speaker 1: nothing else with his proud sight agrees. Look when a
- 17:58Speaker 1: painter would surpass the life in limbing out a well
- 18:01Speaker 1: proportioned steed, his art with nature's workmanship at strife, as
- 18:06Speaker 1: if the dead the living should exceed. So did this
- 18:09Speaker 1: horse excel a common one in shape, in courage, color,
- 18:14Speaker 1: pace and bone, round hoofed, short jointed fetlocks, shag and long,
- 18:20Speaker 1: broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril, wide high crest,
- 18:25Speaker 1: short ears, straight legs, and passing, strong, thin mane, thick tail,
- 18:31Speaker 1: broad buttock, tender hide. Look what a horse should have
- 18:35Speaker 1: He did not lack, save a proud rider on so
- 18:38Speaker 1: proud a back. Sometimes he scuds far off, and there
- 18:43Speaker 1: he stares Anon. He starts at stirring of a feather
- 18:47Speaker 1: to bid the wind a base he now prepares, And
- 18:50Speaker 1: where he run or fly, they know not whether, For
- 18:54Speaker 1: through his mane and tail the high wind sings, fanning
- 18:57Speaker 1: the hares who wave like feathered wings. He looks upon
- 19:02Speaker 1: his love and neighs unto her. She answers him, as
- 19:06Speaker 1: if she knew his mind, Being proud as females are
- 19:10Speaker 1: to see him woo her, she puts on outward strangeness,
- 19:14Speaker 1: seems unkind, spurns at his love and scorns the heat
- 19:18Speaker 1: he feels, beating his kind embracements with her heels. Then,
- 19:23Speaker 1: like a melancholy malcontent, he veils his tail, that like
- 19:27Speaker 1: a falling plume, cool shadow to his melting buttock lent.
- 19:32Speaker 1: He stamps and bites the poor flies in his fume.
- 19:35Speaker 1: His love, perceiving how he is enraged, grew kinder, and
- 19:39Speaker 1: his fury was assuaged. His testy master goeth about to
- 19:43Speaker 1: take him, when Lo, the unbacked breeder, full of fear,
- 19:47Speaker 1: jealous of catching swiftly, doth forsake him with her the horse,
- 19:52Speaker 1: and left Adonnis there. As they were mad unto the wood,
- 19:56Speaker 1: they hie them outstripping crows that strive to overf fly
- 20:00Speaker 1: them all swoln with chafing down, Adonnis sits, banning his
- 20:05Speaker 1: boisterous and unruly beast. And now the happy season once
- 20:10Speaker 1: more fits that love sick. Love by pleading may be
- 20:13Speaker 1: blest for lovers. Say the heart hath treble wrong when
- 20:17Speaker 1: it is barred. The adans of the tongue, an oven
- 20:21Speaker 1: that is stopped, or river stayed, burneth more hotly swelleth
- 20:25Speaker 1: with more rage. So of concealed sorrow may be said,
- 20:30Speaker 1: free vent of words. Love's fire doth swage. But when
- 20:34Speaker 1: the heart's attorney once is mute, the client breaks as
- 20:38Speaker 1: desperate in his suit, he sees her coming and begins
- 20:43Speaker 1: to glow, even as a dying coal revives with wind,
- 20:47Speaker 1: and with his bonnet hides his angry brow, looks on
- 20:51Speaker 1: the dull earth with disturbed mind, taking no notice that
- 20:54Speaker 1: she is so nigh for all askance. He holds her
- 20:58Speaker 1: in his eye. Oh what a sight it was wistly
- 21:02Speaker 1: to view how she came stealing to the wayward boy,
- 21:06Speaker 1: to note the fighting conflict of her hue, how white
- 21:10Speaker 1: and red each other did destroy. But now her cheek
- 21:14Speaker 1: was pale, and by and by it flashed forth fire
- 21:17Speaker 1: as lightning from the sky. Now was she just before
- 21:22Speaker 1: him as he sat, and like a lowly lover, down
- 21:25Speaker 1: she kneels. With one fair hand, she heaveth up his
- 21:28Speaker 1: hat her other tender hand. His fair cheek feels his
- 21:33Speaker 1: tenderer cheek, receives her soft hands print as apt as
- 21:37Speaker 1: new fallen snow takes any dint. Oh, what a war
- 21:41Speaker 1: of looks was then between them. Her eyes petitioners to
- 21:45Speaker 1: his eyes swing His eyes saw her eyes as they
- 21:49Speaker 1: had not seen them. Her eyes wooed still, his eyes
- 21:52Speaker 1: disdained the wooing, And all this dumb play had his
- 21:56Speaker 1: acts made plain with tears, which chorus la, Her eyes
- 22:01Speaker 1: did rain full gently. Now she takes him by the hand,
- 22:06Speaker 1: a lily prisoned in a jail of snow or ivory,
- 22:09Speaker 1: in an alabaster band, so white a friend in girts,
- 22:13Speaker 1: so white a foe. This beauteous combat, wilful and unwilling,
- 22:19Speaker 1: showed like two silver doves that sit a billing. Once
- 22:23Speaker 1: more the engine of her thoughts began, Oh.
- 22:27Speaker 2: Fairest mover on this mortal round, would thou wert as
- 22:31Speaker 2: I am, and I a man, My heart all whole
- 22:34Speaker 2: is thine, thy heart, my wound. For one sweet look,
- 22:37Speaker 2: thy help, I would assure thee, though nothing but my
- 22:40Speaker 2: body's bane would cure thee.
- 22:42Speaker 3: Give me my hand, saith he, Why dost thou feel it?
- 22:47Speaker 1: Give me my.
- 22:48Speaker 2: Heart, saith she, And thou shalt have it? Oh giveth me,
- 22:53Speaker 2: lest thy hard heart do steal it, and being steel'd
- 22:56Speaker 2: soft size can never grave it. Then love's deep groans
- 23:00Speaker 2: I never shall regard, because adonis heart hath made mine hard.
- 23:05Speaker 3: For shame, he cries, let go, and let me go.
- 23:09Speaker 3: My day's delight is past. My horse is gone, and
- 23:13Speaker 3: tis your fault. I am bereft him. So I pray
- 23:17Speaker 3: you hence and leave me here alone. For all my mind,
- 23:21Speaker 3: my thought, my busy care is how to get my
- 23:25Speaker 3: palfrey from the mare.
- 23:26Speaker 2: Thus she replies, thy palfrey as he should welcomes the
- 23:31Speaker 2: warm approach of sweet desire. Affection is a cold that
- 23:35Speaker 2: must be cooled, else suffered. It will set the heart
- 23:39Speaker 2: on fire. The sea hath bounds, but deep desire hath none.
- 23:43Speaker 2: Therefore no marvel. Though thy horse be gone, how like
- 23:47Speaker 2: a jade he stood tied to the tree, servily mastered
- 23:51Speaker 2: with a leathern rain. But when he saw his love,
- 23:54Speaker 2: his youth's fair fee, he held such petty bondage in disdain,
- 23:59Speaker 2: throwing the base thong from his bending crest, enfranchising his mouth,
- 24:04Speaker 2: his back, his breast. Who sees his true love in
- 24:07Speaker 2: her naked bed, teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white.
- 24:11Speaker 2: But when his glutton eye so full hath fed his
- 24:14Speaker 2: other agents aim at like delight. Who is so faint
- 24:18Speaker 2: that dare not be so bold to touch the fire,
- 24:21Speaker 2: the weather being cold? Let me excuse thy coarser gentle boy,
- 24:26Speaker 2: and learn of him. I heartily beseech thee to take
- 24:29Speaker 2: advantage on presented joy, though I were dumb. Yet his
- 24:33Speaker 2: proceedings teach thee, Oh, learn to love. The lesson is
- 24:38Speaker 2: but plain, and once made perfect, never lost again.
- 24:42Speaker 3: I know not love, quoth he, nor will not know
- 24:46Speaker 3: it unless it be a bore, and then I chase.
- 24:49Speaker 3: It tis much to borrow, and I will not owe
- 24:52Speaker 3: it my love. To love is love, but to disgrace it,
- 24:56Speaker 3: For I have heard it is a life in death
- 24:59Speaker 3: that laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.
- 25:03Speaker 3: Who wears a garment shapeless and unfinish'd, who plucks the
- 25:08Speaker 3: bud before one leaf put forth. If springing things be
- 25:12Speaker 3: any jot diminish'd they wither in their prime, prove nothing worth.
- 25:17Speaker 3: The colt that's backed and burdened, being young, loseth his
- 25:22Speaker 3: pride and never waxeth strong. You hurt my hand with ringing.
- 25:27Speaker 3: Let us part and leave this idle theme, this bootless chat.
- 25:32Speaker 3: Remove your siege from my unyielding heart. To love's alarms,
- 25:37Speaker 3: it will not ope the gate. Dismiss your vows, your
- 25:41Speaker 3: fained tears, your flattery, For where a heart is hard,
- 25:46Speaker 3: they make no battery.
- 25:47Speaker 2: What canst thou talk? Quoth she hast thou a tongue? Oh,
- 25:52Speaker 2: would thou hadst not? Or I had no hearing? Thy
- 25:56Speaker 2: mermaid's voice hath done me double wrong? I had my
- 25:59Speaker 2: load before now pressed with bearing melodious discord, heavenly tune,
- 26:04Speaker 2: heart sounding ears, deep sweet music, and heart's deep sore wounding.
- 26:10Speaker 2: Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love
- 26:13Speaker 2: that inward beauty and invisible, or were I deaf? Thy
- 26:17Speaker 2: outward parts would move each part in me that were
- 26:20Speaker 2: but sensible, Though neither eyes nor ears to hear nor see?
- 26:25Speaker 2: Yet should I be in love? By touching thee, say
- 26:29Speaker 2: that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that
- 26:32Speaker 2: I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing
- 26:35Speaker 2: but the very smell were left me. Yet would my
- 26:38Speaker 2: love to thee be still as much far from the
- 26:41Speaker 2: stillatory of thy face excelling comes breath perfumed that breatheth
- 26:46Speaker 2: love by smelling. But oh what a banquet wert thou
- 26:49Speaker 2: to the taste. Being nurse and feeder of the other four,
- 26:53Speaker 2: Would they not wish the feast might everlast? And bid
- 26:56Speaker 2: suspicion double lock the door, lest jealousy that sour unwelcome
- 27:01Speaker 2: guest should, by his stealing in disturb the feast.
- 27:05Speaker 1: Once more, the ruby colored portal opened, which, to his
- 27:09Speaker 1: speech did honey passage yield, like a red morn that
- 27:13Speaker 1: ever yet betokened. Rack to the seamen, tempest, to the
- 27:17Speaker 1: field sorrow, to the shepherd's woe, unto the birds, gusts
- 27:22Speaker 1: and foul flaws, to herdman and to herds this ill
- 27:26Speaker 1: presage advisedly she marketh even as the wind is hushed
- 27:31Speaker 1: before it raineth, or as the wolf doth grin before
- 27:34Speaker 1: he barketh, or as the berry breaks before it staineth,
- 27:39Speaker 1: or like the deadly bullet of a gun. His meaning
- 27:42Speaker 1: struck her ere his words begun, and at his look
- 27:46Speaker 1: she flatly falleth down. For looks kill love, and love
- 27:51Speaker 1: by looks reviveth. A smile recures the wounding of a frown,
- 27:56Speaker 1: but blessed bankrupt that by love so thriveth. The silly boy,
- 28:01Speaker 1: believing she is dead, claps her pale cheek till clapping
- 28:05Speaker 1: makes it red, and all amazed break off his late intent,
- 28:09Speaker 1: For sharply he did think to reprehend her, which cunning
- 28:13Speaker 1: love did wittily prevent fair fall the wit that can
- 28:17Speaker 1: so well defend her. For on the grass she lies
- 28:21Speaker 1: as she were slain, till his breath breatheth life in
- 28:25Speaker 1: her again. He wrings her nose, He strikes her on
- 28:29Speaker 1: the cheeks. He bends her fingers, holds her pulses hard.
- 28:32Speaker 1: He chafes her lips a thousand ways. He seeks to
- 28:36Speaker 1: mend the hurt that his unkindness marred. He kisses her,
- 28:41Speaker 1: and she, by her good will will never rise, So
- 28:45Speaker 1: he will kiss her still. The night of sorrow now
- 28:49Speaker 1: is turned to day. Her two blue windows faintly she
- 28:53Speaker 1: upheaveeth like the fair sun, when in his fresh array
- 28:56Speaker 1: he cheers the morn, and all the world relieveth And
- 29:00Speaker 1: as the bright sun glorifies the sky, so was her
- 29:04Speaker 1: face illumined with her eye, whose beams upon his hairless
- 29:08Speaker 1: face are fixed, as if from thence they borrowed all
- 29:11Speaker 1: their shine. Were never four such lamps together mixed, had
- 29:16Speaker 1: not as clouded with his brow's repine, but hers, which
- 29:21Speaker 1: through the crystal tears gave light shone like the moon
- 29:24Speaker 1: in waters seen by night.
- 29:27Speaker 2: Oh where am I quoth she? In earth or heaven,
- 29:31Speaker 2: or in the ocean drenched or in the fire? What
- 29:34Speaker 2: hour is this? Or morn? Or weary? Even do I
- 29:38Speaker 2: delight to die? Or life desire? But now I lived,
- 29:42Speaker 2: and life was death's annoy. But now I died, and
- 29:46Speaker 2: death was lively joy. Oh, thou didst kill me? Kill
- 29:50Speaker 2: me once again, thy eyes, shrewd tutor, that hard heart
- 29:54Speaker 2: of thine hath taught them scornful tricks and such disdain
- 29:58Speaker 2: that they have murdered this poor part of mine, and
- 30:01Speaker 2: these mine eyes true leaders to their queen. But for
- 30:05Speaker 2: thy piteous lips no more had seen. Long may they
- 30:09Speaker 2: kiss each other for this cure? Oh, never let their
- 30:11Speaker 2: crimson liveries wear, and as they last their verdure still
- 30:15Speaker 2: endure to drive infection from the dangerous year that the
- 30:20Speaker 2: star gazers, having writ on death, may say, the plague
- 30:24Speaker 2: is banished by thy breath, pure lips, sweet seals in
- 30:28Speaker 2: my soft lips imprinted. What bargains may I make still
- 30:32Speaker 2: to be sealing? To sell myself? I can be well contented,
- 30:36Speaker 2: So thou wilt buy and pay and use good dealing
- 30:39Speaker 2: which purchase. If thou make for fear of slips, set
- 30:43Speaker 2: thy seal manual on my wax red lips. A thousand
- 30:47Speaker 2: kisses buys my heart from me? And pay them at
- 30:50Speaker 2: thy leisure, one by one. What is ten hundred touches
- 30:54Speaker 2: unto thee? Are they not quickly told and quickly gone?
- 30:58Speaker 2: Say for non payment the dat should double is twenty
- 31:02Speaker 2: hundred kisses.
- 31:03Speaker 4: Such a trouble, fair queen, quoth he, if any love
- 31:07Speaker 4: you owe me, measure my strangeness with my unripe ears
- 31:12Speaker 4: before I know myself. Seek not to know me.
- 31:16Speaker 3: No fissure but the ungrown fry forbears, the mellow plum
- 31:20Speaker 3: doth fall, The green sticks fast or being early plucked
- 31:25Speaker 3: is sour to taste. Look. The world's comforter, with weary gait,
- 31:31Speaker 3: his day's hot task hath ended in the west. The
- 31:35Speaker 3: owl night's herald shrieks tis very late. The sheep are
- 31:39Speaker 3: gone to fold, birds to their nest, and cold black
- 31:44Speaker 3: clouds that shadow Heaven's light. Do summon us to part
- 31:49Speaker 3: and bid good night? Now let me say good night,
- 31:52Speaker 3: and so say you. If you will say so, you
- 31:56Speaker 3: shall have a.
- 31:57Speaker 1: Kiss good night, quoth she, and ere he says adieu.
- 32:02Speaker 1: The honey fee of parting tendered is her arms. Do
- 32:06Speaker 1: lend his neck a sweet embrace, incorporate then they seem
- 32:10Speaker 1: face grows to face till breathless he disjoined and backward
- 32:15Speaker 1: drew the heavenly moisture. That sweet coral mouth, whose precious taste.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Her thirsty lips well knew whereon they surfeit, yet complain
- 32:25Speaker 1: on drought. He with her plenty presst, she faint with dearth.
- 32:31Speaker 1: Their lips together glued fall to the earth. Now quick
- 32:36Speaker 1: desire hath caught the yielding prey, and glutton like she feeds,
- 32:40Speaker 1: yet never fileth. Her lips are conquerors, His lips obey
- 32:45Speaker 1: paying what ransom the insulter willeth, whose vulture thought doth
- 32:50Speaker 1: pitch the price so high that she will draw his
- 32:53Speaker 1: lips rich treasure dry. And having felt the sweetness of
- 32:57Speaker 1: the spoil with blindfold fume sory, she begins to forage
- 33:02Speaker 1: her face, doth reek and smoke her blood doth boil,
- 33:06Speaker 1: and careless lust stirs up a desperate courage, flanting oblivion,
- 33:11Speaker 1: beating reason back forgetting shames pure blush and honors rack hot,
- 33:18Speaker 1: faint and weary with her hard embracing, Like a wild
- 33:22Speaker 1: bird being tamed with too much handling, or as the
- 33:25Speaker 1: fleet foot row that's tired with chasing, or like the
- 33:28Speaker 1: froward infant stilled with dandling. He now obeys, and now
- 33:34Speaker 1: no more resisteth. While she takes all she can, not all.
- 33:39Speaker 1: She listeth what wax so frozen, but dissolves with tempering,
- 33:45Speaker 1: and yields at last to every light impression. Things out
- 33:49Speaker 1: of hope are compassed oft with venturing, chiefly in love,
- 33:53Speaker 1: whose leave exceeds commission. Affection faints not like a pale
- 33:57Speaker 1: faced coward, but then woo best when most his choice
- 34:02Speaker 1: is froward, when he did frown, Oh had she then
- 34:07Speaker 1: gave o'er such nectar from his lips. She had not
- 34:10Speaker 1: sucked foul words and frowns must not repel a lover.
- 34:14Speaker 1: What though the rose have prickles, yet tis plucked where
- 34:18Speaker 1: beauty under twenty locks kept fast? Yet love breaks through
- 34:22Speaker 1: and picks them all at last for pity. Now she
- 34:27Speaker 1: can no more detain him. The poor fool praise her
- 34:30Speaker 1: that he may depart. She is resolved no longer to
- 34:33Speaker 1: restrain him. Bids him farewell and look well to her heart,
- 34:38Speaker 1: the which by cupid's bow she doth protest. He carries
- 34:42Speaker 1: thence in caged in his breast. Sweet boy, she says,
- 34:47Speaker 1: this night I'll.
- 34:48Speaker 2: Waste in sorrow for my sick heart. Commands mine eyes
- 34:51Speaker 2: to watch. Tell me Love's master, shall we meet tomorrow? Say?
- 34:56Speaker 2: Shall we? Shall we wilst thou make the match?
- 34:59Speaker 1: He tells her, No, tomorrow, He intends to hunt the
- 35:02Speaker 1: boar with certain of his friends. The boar quoth she
- 35:07Speaker 1: whereat a sudden, pale, like lawn being spread upon the
- 35:10Speaker 1: blushing rose usurps her cheeks. She trembles at his tail
- 35:15Speaker 1: and on his neck. Her yoking arms she throws. She
- 35:19Speaker 1: sinketh down, still hanging by his neck. He on her
- 35:23Speaker 1: belly falls, she on her back. Now is she in
- 35:27Speaker 1: the very lists of love? Her champion mounted for the
- 35:31Speaker 1: hot encounter, all is imaginary. She doth prove he will
- 35:35Speaker 1: not manage her, although he mount her. That worse than
- 35:39Speaker 1: Tantalus is her annoy to clip elysium and to lack
- 35:43Speaker 1: her joy, even as poor birds deceived with painted grapes
- 35:48Speaker 1: do surfeit by the eye and pine the maw. Even
- 35:52Speaker 1: so she languisheth in her mishaps, as those poor birds
- 35:56Speaker 1: that helpless berries saw the warm effects which she and
- 36:00Speaker 1: him finds missing. She seeks to kindle with continual kissing.
- 36:05Speaker 1: But all in vain, Good Queen, it will not be.
- 36:09Speaker 1: She hath a sayed, as much as may be proved,
- 36:12Speaker 1: her pleading hath deserved a greater fee. She's love, she loves,
- 36:17Speaker 1: and yet she is not loved.
- 36:20Speaker 3: Fie fie, he says, you crush me, let me go.
- 36:25Speaker 3: You have no reason to withhold me.
- 36:28Speaker 2: So thou hadst been gone, quoth she, sweet boy, ere this,
- 36:33Speaker 2: but that thou toldst me thou wouldst hunt the boar.
- 36:36Speaker 2: Oh be advised, thou know'st not what it is with
- 36:39Speaker 2: Javelin's point a churlish swine to gore, whose tush is
- 36:43Speaker 2: never sheathed, he wetteth still like to a mortal butcher
- 36:46Speaker 2: bent to kill. On his bow back. He hath a
- 36:50Speaker 2: battle set of bristly pikes that ever threat his foes,
- 36:54Speaker 2: His eyes like glow worms shine when he doth fret.
- 36:57Speaker 2: His snout dig sepulchers. Where'er he goes being moved, he
- 37:01Speaker 2: strikes what air is in his way, and whom he strikes.
- 37:04Speaker 2: His crooked tushes slay. His brawny sides, with hairy bristles
- 37:09Speaker 2: armed are better proof than thy spear's point can enter.
- 37:13Speaker 2: His short thick neck cannot be easily harmed. Being ireful
- 37:17Speaker 2: on the lion, he will venture the thorny brambles and
- 37:20Speaker 2: embracing bushes as fearful of him, part through whom he
- 37:24Speaker 2: rushes alas he not esteems that face of thine to
- 37:28Speaker 2: which love's eyes pay tributary gazes, nor thy soft hands,
- 37:33Speaker 2: sweet lips, and crystal eye, whose full perfection all the
- 37:37Speaker 2: world amazes. But having thee at vantage wondrous dread would
- 37:42Speaker 2: root these beauties as he roots the mead. Oh, let
- 37:45Speaker 2: him keep his loathsome cabin still beauty hath nought to
- 37:49Speaker 2: do with such foul fiends, come not within his danger.
- 37:52Speaker 2: By thy will, they that thrive well take counsel of
- 37:56Speaker 2: their friends. When thou didst name, the bore not to dissemble.
- 38:00Speaker 2: I feared thy fortune, and my joints did tremble. Didst
- 38:04Speaker 2: thou not mark my face? Was it not white? Sast
- 38:07Speaker 2: thou not signs of fear? Lurk in mine eye? Grew
- 38:10Speaker 2: I not faint, and fell I not downright within my bosom,
- 38:15Speaker 2: whereon thou dost lie My boding heart pants beats and
- 38:18Speaker 2: takes no rest, but like an earthquake shakes thee on
- 38:22Speaker 2: my breast. For where love reigns disturbing jealousy doth call
- 38:27Speaker 2: himself affection sentinel, gives false alarms, suggestith mutiny, and in
- 38:33Speaker 2: a peaceful hour doth cry kill, kill, distempering gentle love
- 38:37Speaker 2: in his desire, as air and water do abate the fire.
- 38:41Speaker 2: This sour informer, this bait breeding spy, this canker that
- 38:46Speaker 2: eats up love's tender spring, This cary tale, decentious jealousy
- 38:51Speaker 2: that sometime true news sometime false, doth bring knocks at
- 38:56Speaker 2: my heart and whispers in mine ear, that if I
- 38:58Speaker 2: love thee I thy death should fear, and more than
- 39:02Speaker 2: so presenteth to mine eye the picture of an angry,
- 39:06Speaker 2: chafing boar, under whose sharp fangs on his back doth
- 39:09Speaker 2: lie an image like thyself, all stained with gore, whose blood,
- 39:14Speaker 2: upon the fresh flowers being shed, doth make them droop
- 39:17Speaker 2: with grief and hang the head. What should I do?
- 39:21Speaker 2: Seeing thee so indeed that tremble at the imagination. The
- 39:25Speaker 2: thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed, and
- 39:28Speaker 2: fear doth teach it divination. I prophesy thy death, my
- 39:32Speaker 2: living sorrow. If thou encounter with the boar tomorrow, but
- 39:36Speaker 2: if thou needs wilt hunt be ruled by me. Uncouple
- 39:40Speaker 2: at the timorous flying hair, or at the fox, which
- 39:43Speaker 2: lives by subtlety, or at the roe, which no encounter.
- 39:47Speaker 2: Dare pursue these fearful creatures o'er the downs and on
- 39:51Speaker 2: thy well breathed horse, Keep with thy hound, And when
- 39:54Speaker 2: thou hast on foot the purblind hair, mark the poor
- 39:57Speaker 2: wretch to overshoot his troubles. How he outruns the winds,
- 40:01Speaker 2: and with what care he cranks and crosses with a
- 40:04Speaker 2: thousand doubles the many musics through which he goes are
- 40:08Speaker 2: like a labyrinth to amaze his foes. Sometime he runs
- 40:12Speaker 2: among a flock of sheep to make the cunning hounds
- 40:14Speaker 2: mistake their smell. And sometime where earth delving conies keep
- 40:18Speaker 2: to stop the loud pursuers in their yell, and sometimes
- 40:22Speaker 2: sorteth with the herd of deer danger Deviseth shifts. Wit
- 40:26Speaker 2: waits on fear, for there his smell with others being
- 40:29Speaker 2: mingled the hot scent snuffing hounds are driven to doubt,
- 40:33Speaker 2: ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled with much
- 40:36Speaker 2: ado the cold fault cleanly out. Then do they spend
- 40:40Speaker 2: their mouths. Echo replies, as if another chase were in
- 40:44Speaker 2: the skies. By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill,
- 40:49Speaker 2: stands on his hinder legs, with listening ear to hearken.
- 40:52Speaker 2: If his foes pursue him still anon their loud alarums,
- 40:56Speaker 2: he doth hear, And now his grief may be compared
- 40:59Speaker 2: well to one sore sick that hears the passing bell.
- 41:03Speaker 2: Then shalt thou see the dew bedabbled wretch, turn and return,
- 41:07Speaker 2: indenting with the way each envious briar his weary legs
- 41:11Speaker 2: doth scratch, each shadow makes him stop, each murmur stay,
- 41:16Speaker 2: for misery is trodden on by many, and being low
- 41:19Speaker 2: never relieved by any. Lie quietly and hear a little more. Nay,
- 41:24Speaker 2: do not struggle, for thou shalt not rise to make
- 41:27Speaker 2: thee hate the hunting of the boar. Unlike myself. Thou
- 41:30Speaker 2: hearest me moralize, applying this to that, and so to so,
- 41:34Speaker 2: for love can comment upon every woe. Where did I leave?
- 41:38Speaker 3: No matter where quoth he leave me? And then the
- 41:43Speaker 3: story aptly ends. The night is spent.
- 41:47Speaker 1: Why what of that, quoth she I am?
- 41:51Speaker 3: Quoth he expected of my friends? And now tis dark
- 41:56Speaker 3: and going I shall fall in knight.
- 41:59Speaker 2: Quoth she desire sees best of all. But if thou fall, oh,
- 42:04Speaker 2: then imagine this the earth in love with thee. Thy
- 42:07Speaker 2: footing trips, and all is but to rob thee of
- 42:10Speaker 2: a kiss rich praise make true men thieves. So do
- 42:15Speaker 2: thy lips make modest Diane cloudy and forlorn, lest she
- 42:19Speaker 2: should steal a kiss and die forsworn. Now of this
- 42:23Speaker 2: dark night I perceived the reason Cynthia, for shame obscures
- 42:27Speaker 2: her silver shine till forging nature be condemned of treason
- 42:31Speaker 2: for stealing molds from heaven that were divine, wherein she
- 42:34Speaker 2: framed thee in high heavens, despite to shame the sun
- 42:37Speaker 2: by day and her by night. And therefore hath she
- 42:40Speaker 2: bribed the destinies to cross the curious workmanship of nature,
- 42:45Speaker 2: to mingle beauty with infirmities, and pure perfection with impure defeature,
- 42:50Speaker 2: making it subject to the tyranny of mad mischances and
- 42:54Speaker 2: much misery, as burning fevers, egg us, pale and faint life, poisonings, pestilence,
- 43:00Speaker 2: and frenzies. Wood, the marrow eating sickness, whose attains disorder,
- 43:05Speaker 2: breeds by heating of the blood, surfeits, impostumes, grief and
- 43:09Speaker 2: damned despair. Swear Nature's death for framing thee so fair
- 43:15Speaker 2: and not the least of all these maladies, but in
- 43:17Speaker 2: one minute's fight brings beauty under both favor, savor, hue,
- 43:22Speaker 2: and qualities. Whereat the impartial gazer late did wonder, are
- 43:26Speaker 2: on the sudden wasted, thawed and done as mountain snow
- 43:30Speaker 2: melts with the midday sun. Therefore, despite of fruitless chastity,
- 43:36Speaker 2: love lacking vestals, and self loving nuns, that on the
- 43:39Speaker 2: earth would breed a scarcity and barren dearth of daughters
- 43:42Speaker 2: and of sons, be prodigal. The lamp that burns by
- 43:46Speaker 2: night dries up his oil to lend the world his light.
- 43:50Speaker 2: What is thy body but a swallowing grave, seeming to
- 43:53Speaker 2: bury that posterity which, by the rights of time thou
- 43:57Speaker 2: needs must have. If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity.
- 44:02Speaker 2: If so, the world will hold thee in disdain. Sith
- 44:05Speaker 2: in thy pride, so fair a hope is slain, so
- 44:09Speaker 2: in thyself thyself art made away a mischief worse than
- 44:13Speaker 2: civil homebred strife, or theirs whose desperate hands themselves do slay,
- 44:18Speaker 2: or butcher sire that wreaths his son of life, foul
- 44:22Speaker 2: cankering rust, the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put
- 44:25Speaker 2: to use more gold begets.
- 44:28Speaker 3: Nay, Then quoth Adam, you will fall again into your
- 44:32Speaker 3: idle over handled theme. The kiss I gave you is
- 44:36Speaker 3: bestowed in vain, and all in vain you strive against
- 44:40Speaker 3: the stream, For by this black faced knight desires foul nurse.
- 44:46Speaker 3: Your treatise makes me like you, worse and worse. If
- 44:50Speaker 3: love have lent you twenty thousand tongues, and every tongue
- 44:54Speaker 3: more moving than your own, bewitching like the wanton mermaid's songs.
- 45:00Speaker 3: Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown. For no,
- 45:05Speaker 3: my heart stands armored in mine ear, and will not
- 45:09Speaker 3: let a false sound enter there, lest the deceiving harmony
- 45:14Speaker 3: should run into the quiet closure of my breast. And
- 45:18Speaker 3: then my little heart were quite undone in his bed chamber,
- 45:22Speaker 3: to be barred of rest. No, lady, no, my heart
- 45:26Speaker 3: longs not to groan, but soundly sleeps well now it
- 45:30Speaker 3: sleeps alone. What have you urged that I cannot reprove?
- 45:36Speaker 3: The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger. I
- 45:40Speaker 3: hate not love, but your device in love that lends
- 45:44Speaker 3: embracements unto every stranger. You do it for increase, O
- 45:49Speaker 3: strange excuse, when reason is the bawd to lust's abuse,
- 45:55Speaker 3: call it not love, for love to heaven is fled,
- 45:59Speaker 3: since sweating lust on earth usurp'd his name, under whose
- 46:04Speaker 3: simple semblance he hath fed upon fresh beauty, blotting it
- 46:08Speaker 3: with blame, which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaths
- 46:13Speaker 3: as caterpillars do. The tender leaves love comforteth like sunshine
- 46:19Speaker 3: after rain. But lust's effect is tempest after sun. Love's
- 46:25Speaker 3: gentle spring doth always fresh remain. Lust's winter comes ere
- 46:30Speaker 3: summer hath be done. Love surfeits, not lust like a
- 46:36Speaker 3: glutton dies. Love is all truth, lust full of forgid lies.
- 46:43Speaker 3: More I could tell, but more I dare not say.
- 46:47Speaker 3: The text is old, the orator too green. Therefore, in sadness,
- 46:53Speaker 3: now I will away. My face is full of shame.
- 46:57Speaker 3: My heart of teen mine ears that to your wanton talk,
- 47:02Speaker 3: attended to burn themselves for having so offended with this.
- 47:07Speaker 1: He breaketh from the sweet embrace of those fair arms
- 47:10Speaker 1: which bound him to her breast, and homeward through the
- 47:14Speaker 1: dark land, runs apace, leaves love upon her back, deeply distressed.
- 47:19Speaker 1: Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky, So
- 47:23Speaker 1: glides he in the night from venus eye, which after him,
- 47:27Speaker 1: She darts as one on shore, gazing upon a late
- 47:30Speaker 1: embarked friend, till the wild waves will have him seen
- 47:34Speaker 1: no more. Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend. So
- 47:39Speaker 1: did the merciless and pitchy night fold in the object
- 47:43Speaker 1: that did feed her sight whereat amazed as one that
- 47:47Speaker 1: unaware hath dropped a precious jewel in the flood, or
- 47:51Speaker 1: astonished as night wanderers often are their light blown out
- 47:55Speaker 1: in some mistrustful wood. Even so confounded in the dark,
- 47:59Speaker 1: she lay, having lost the fair discovery of her way.
- 48:03Speaker 1: And now she beats her heart whereat it groans that
- 48:07Speaker 1: all the neighbor caves, as seeming troubled, make verbal repetition
- 48:11Speaker 1: of her moans. Passion on passion deeply is redoubled ay me.
- 48:17Speaker 1: She cries, and twenty times woe, woe, and twenty echoes
- 48:23Speaker 1: twenty times cry. So she, marking them, begins a wailing
- 48:28Speaker 1: note and sings extemporarily a woeful ditty, how love makes
- 48:33Speaker 1: young men thrall and old men dote, how love is
- 48:36Speaker 1: wise and folly, foolish, witty. Her heavy anthem still concludes
- 48:41Speaker 1: in woe, and still the choir of echoes answer. So
- 48:45Speaker 1: her song was tedious and outwar the night. For lover's
- 48:49Speaker 1: hours are long, though seeming short, if pleased themselves others
- 48:54Speaker 1: they think delight in such like circumstance, with such like sport.
- 48:59Speaker 1: Their copy his stories oftentimes begun end without audience, and
- 49:04Speaker 1: are never done, For who hath she to spend the
- 49:07Speaker 1: night with? All but idle sounds, resembling parasites, like shrill
- 49:12Speaker 1: tongued tapsters, answering every call, soothing the humor of fantastic wits.
- 49:18Speaker 1: She says, tis so, They answer all tis so, and
- 49:24Speaker 1: would say after her if she said no. Lo Here
- 49:29Speaker 1: the gentle lark, weary of rest from his moist cabinet,
- 49:33Speaker 1: mounts up on high and wakes the morning, from whose
- 49:36Speaker 1: silver breast the sun ariseth in his majesty, Who doth
- 49:40Speaker 1: the world so gloriously behold that cedar tops and hills
- 49:44Speaker 1: seemed burnished gold? Venus salutes him with this fair, good morrow.
- 49:49Speaker 2: Oh, thou clear God and patron of all light, from
- 49:53Speaker 2: whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow the beauteous
- 49:56Speaker 2: influence that makes him bright. There lives a sun that suffers,
- 50:00Speaker 2: and earthly Mother may lend thee light as thou dost
- 50:03Speaker 2: lend to other.
- 50:04Speaker 1: This said she hasteth to a myrtle grove, musing the
- 50:08Speaker 1: morning is so much o'er worn, and yet she hears
- 50:11Speaker 1: no tidings of her love. She hearkens for his hounds
- 50:15Speaker 1: and for his horn anon. She hears them chant it lustily,
- 50:19Speaker 1: and all in haste. She coasteth to the cry, and
- 50:23Speaker 1: as she runs the bushes in the way. Some catch
- 50:26Speaker 1: her by the neck, some kiss her face, some twine
- 50:30Speaker 1: about her thigh to make her stay. She wildly breaketh
- 50:33Speaker 1: from their strict embrace, like a milchtough whose swelling dugs
- 50:37Speaker 1: do ache, hasting to feed her fawn hid in some break.
- 50:42Speaker 1: By this she hears the hounds are at bay. Whereat
- 50:45Speaker 1: she starts, like one that spies an adder wreathed up
- 50:48Speaker 1: in fatal folds just in his way. The fear whereof
- 50:51Speaker 1: doth make him shake and shudder. Even so, the timorous
- 50:55Speaker 1: yelping of the hounds appalls her senses, and her spirit confounds.
- 51:00Speaker 1: For now she knows it is no gentle chase, but
- 51:03Speaker 1: the blunt bore, rough bear or lion. Proud because the
- 51:08Speaker 1: cry remaineth in one place while e're fearfully, the dogs
- 51:12Speaker 1: exclaim aloud, finding their enemy to be so cursed, they
- 51:16Speaker 1: all strain courtesy. Who shall cope him first? This dismal
- 51:20Speaker 1: cry rings sadly in her ear through all which it
- 51:23Speaker 1: enters to surprise her heart, who, overcome by doubt and
- 51:27Speaker 1: bloodless fear, with cold, pale weakness, numbs each feeling part
- 51:32Speaker 1: like soldiers when their captain once doth yield, they basely
- 51:36Speaker 1: fly and dare not stay the field. Thus stands she
- 51:40Speaker 1: in a trembling ecstasy, till cheering up her senses. Sore dismayed,
- 51:45Speaker 1: she tells them tis a causeless fantasy and childish error,
- 51:49Speaker 1: that they are afraid, bids them leave, quaking, bids them
- 51:52Speaker 1: fear no more. And with that word she spied the
- 51:56Speaker 1: hunted boar, whose frothy mouth bepainted all with red like
- 52:01Speaker 1: milk and blood, being mingled both together. A second fear
- 52:05Speaker 1: through all her sinews spread, which madly hurries her. She
- 52:08Speaker 1: knows not whither this way she runs, and now she
- 52:12Speaker 1: will no further, but back retires to rate the boar
- 52:15Speaker 1: for murder. A thousand spleams bear her a thousand ways.
- 52:20Speaker 1: She treads the path that she untreads again. Her more
- 52:24Speaker 1: than haste is mated with delays, like the proceedings of
- 52:27Speaker 1: a drunken brain, full of respects, yet not at all respecting.
- 52:31Speaker 1: In hand with all things not at all affecting here,
- 52:36Speaker 1: kenneled in a brake, she finds a hound and asks
- 52:39Speaker 1: the weary caitiff for his master, And there another licking
- 52:43Speaker 1: of his wound, gainst venom soars the only sovereign plaster.
- 52:48Speaker 1: And here she meets another, sadly scowling to whom she speaks,
- 52:52Speaker 1: and he replies with howling when he hath ceased this
- 52:56Speaker 1: ill resounding noise. Another flap mouthed, morn black and grim
- 53:01Speaker 1: against the welkin volleys out his voice. Another and another
- 53:05Speaker 1: answer him, clapping their proud tails to the ground below,
- 53:09Speaker 1: shaking their scratched ears, bleeding as they go. Look how
- 53:14Speaker 1: the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies,
- 53:19Speaker 1: whereon with fearful eyes they long have gazed, infusing them
- 53:23Speaker 1: with dreadful prophecies. So she, at these sad sighs, draws
- 53:28Speaker 1: up her breath and, sighing it again, exclaims on death.
- 53:33Speaker 2: Hard favored, tyrant, ugly, meager, lean, hateful, divorce of love.
- 53:38Speaker 1: Thus chied she death.
- 53:41Speaker 2: Grim, grinning ghost, Earth's worm. What dost thou mean to
- 53:44Speaker 2: stifle beauty and to steal his breath? Who when he lived,
- 53:48Speaker 2: his breath and beauty set gloss on the rose, smell
- 53:52Speaker 2: to the violet. If he be dead, Oh no, it
- 53:55Speaker 2: cannot be seeing his beauty, thou shouldst strike at it. Yes,
- 54:00Speaker 2: it may thou hast no eyes to see, but hatefully
- 54:04Speaker 2: at random? Dost thou hit thy mark is feeble age,
- 54:08Speaker 2: but thy false dart mistakes that aim and cleaves an
- 54:11Speaker 2: infant's heart. Hadst thou but bid beware, then he had spoke,
- 54:16Speaker 2: and hearing him thy power had lost his power. The
- 54:19Speaker 2: destinies will curse THEE for this stroke. They bid thee
- 54:22Speaker 2: crop a weed. Thou pluck'st a flower, love's golden arrow
- 54:26Speaker 2: at him, should have fled, and not death's ebb, and
- 54:28Speaker 2: dart to strike him dead. Dost thou drink tears that
- 54:32Speaker 2: thou provoke such weeping? What may a heavy groan advantage thee?
- 54:37Speaker 2: Why hast thou cast into eternal sleeping those eyes that
- 54:41Speaker 2: taught all other eyes to see? Now Nature cares not
- 54:44Speaker 2: for thy mortal vigor, since her best work is ruined
- 54:48Speaker 2: with thy rigor.
- 54:49Speaker 1: Here overcome as one full of despair, she veiled her eyelids,
- 54:54Speaker 1: who like sluices, stopped the crystal tide that from her
- 54:57Speaker 1: two cheeks fair in the sweet channel of her bosom dropped.
- 55:01Speaker 1: But through the flood gates breaks the silver rain, and
- 55:04Speaker 1: with his strong course opens them again. Oh, how her
- 55:08Speaker 1: eyes and tears did lend and borrow her eyes seen
- 55:13Speaker 1: in the tears, tears in her eye, both crystals where
- 55:16Speaker 1: they viewed each other's sorrow. Sorrow that friendly sighs sought
- 55:20Speaker 1: still to dry. But like a stormy day, now wind
- 55:24Speaker 1: now rain sighs dry her cheeks. Tears make them wet again.
- 55:29Speaker 1: Variable passions throng her constant woe, as striving, who should
- 55:34Speaker 1: best become her grief? All entertained, Each passion labors so
- 55:39Speaker 1: that every present sorrow seemeth chief, but none is best.
- 55:43Speaker 1: They join them all together, like many clouds, consulting for
- 55:47Speaker 1: foul weather. By this far off she hears some huntsmen
- 55:52Speaker 1: hollow a nurse's song. Now'er pleased her babe so well
- 55:56Speaker 1: the dire imagination she did follow this sound, and of
- 56:00Speaker 1: hope doth labor to expel. For now reviving joy bids
- 56:04Speaker 1: her rejoice and flatters her. It is a daunis voice,
- 56:09Speaker 1: whereat her tears began to turn their tide, being prisoned
- 56:12Speaker 1: in her eye like pearls and glass. Yet sometimes falls
- 56:16Speaker 1: an orient drop, beside which her cheek melts as scorning.
- 56:21Speaker 1: It should pass to wash the foul face of the
- 56:23Speaker 1: sluttish ground, who is but drunken when she seemeth drowned.
- 56:28Speaker 1: Oh hard believing love, How strange it seems not to believe,
- 56:33Speaker 1: and yet too credulous. Thy weal and woe are both
- 56:36Speaker 1: of them extremes. Despair and hope make thee ridiculous. The
- 56:40Speaker 1: one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely, in likely thoughts,
- 56:44Speaker 1: the other kills thee quickly. Now she unweaves the web
- 56:48Speaker 1: that she hath wrought. Adonis lives and death is not
- 56:52Speaker 1: to blame. It was not she that called him all
- 56:55Speaker 1: to naught. Now she adds honors to his hateful name.
- 56:59Speaker 1: She claps him king of graves and grave for kings, imperious,
- 57:02Speaker 1: supreme of all mortal things.
- 57:05Speaker 2: No, no quoth she, Sweet Death, I did but jest.
- 57:10Speaker 2: Yet pardon me. I felt a kind of fear when
- 57:12Speaker 2: as I met the boar, that bloody beast which knows
- 57:15Speaker 2: no pity but is still severe. Then, gentle shadow truth,
- 57:20Speaker 2: I must confess I railed on thee fearing my love's decease.
- 57:24Speaker 2: Tis not my fault. The boar provoked my tongue be
- 57:28Speaker 2: wreaked on him. Invisible Commander tis he foul creature that
- 57:32Speaker 2: hath done thee wrong I did, but act He's author
- 57:35Speaker 2: of my slander grief. Hath two tongues, and never woman,
- 57:39Speaker 2: yet could rule them both without ten women's wit.
- 57:43Speaker 1: Thus, hoping that Adonis is alive, her rash suspect sile
- 57:47Speaker 1: doth extenuate, and that his beauty may the better thrive
- 57:50Speaker 1: with death, she humbly doth insinuate, tells him of trophies, statues, tombs,
- 57:56Speaker 1: and stories, his victories, his triumphs, and his glories.
- 58:00Speaker 2: Oh Jove, quoth she, how much a fool was I
- 58:04Speaker 2: to be of such a weak and silly mind to
- 58:07Speaker 2: wail his death? Who lives and must not die till
- 58:10Speaker 2: mutual overthrow of mortal kind, For he being dead with
- 58:15Speaker 2: him is beauty slain and beauty dead. Black chaos comes again,
- 58:20Speaker 2: Fi fie fond love, Thou art so full of fear
- 58:24Speaker 2: as one with treasure laden hemmed with thieves, trifles, unwitnessed
- 58:29Speaker 2: with eye, or ear thy coward heart, with false bethinking greeds.
- 58:34Speaker 1: Even at this word she hears a merry horn whereat
- 58:37Speaker 1: she leaps. That was but late forlorn as falcon to
- 58:41Speaker 1: the lore away she flies, the grass stoops not she
- 58:45Speaker 1: treads on it so light, and in her haste unfortunately
- 58:48Speaker 1: spies the foul bore's conquest on her fair delight, which
- 58:53Speaker 1: seen her eyes as murdered with the view, like stars
- 58:56Speaker 1: ashamed of day themselves withdrew, or as the snail whose
- 59:01Speaker 1: tender horns being hit shrinks backward in his shelly cave
- 59:05Speaker 1: with pain, and there all smothered up in shade, doth
- 59:09Speaker 1: sit long after, fearing to creep forth again. So at
- 59:13Speaker 1: his bloody view, her eyes are fled into the deep
- 59:17Speaker 1: dark cavels of her head, where they resign their office
- 59:21Speaker 1: and their light to the disposing of her troubled brain,
- 59:24Speaker 1: who bids them still consort with ugly night, and never
- 59:28Speaker 1: wound the heart with looks again, who, like a king
- 59:31Speaker 1: perplexed in his throne by their suggestion, gives a deadly
- 59:35Speaker 1: groan whereat each tributary subject quakes, as when the wind,
- 59:39Speaker 1: imprisoned in the ground struggling for passage, Earth's foundation shakes,
- 59:44Speaker 1: which with cold terror doth men's minds confound this mutiny.
- 59:49Speaker 1: Each part doth so surprise that from their dark beds
- 59:52Speaker 1: once more leap her eyes, and being opened through unwilling
- 59:57Speaker 1: light upon the wide wound that the boar had trenched,
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: and his soft flank, whose wonted lily white with purple tears,
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: that his wound wept, was drenched. No flower was nigh,
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: no grass, herb, leaf or weed, but stole his blood
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: and seemed with him to bleed this solemn sympathy. Poor
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: Venus noteth over one shoulder. Doth she hang her head dumbly?
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: She passions frantically, She doteth she thinks he could not die.
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: He is not dead. Her voice is stopped, her joints
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: forget to bow. Her eyes are mad that they have
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: wept till now. Upon his hurt, she looks so steadfastly
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: that her sight dazzling makes the wound seem free. And
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: then she reprehends her mangling eye that makes more gashes
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: where no breech should be. His face seems twain. Each
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: several limb is doubled for oft the eye mistakes the
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: brain being troubled.
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: My tongue cannot express my grief for one, and yet
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: quoth she behold too Adon's dead. My sighs are blown away,
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: my salt tears gone, Mine eyes are turned to fire.
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: My heart to lead. Heavy hearts, lead melt at mine
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: eyes red fire? So shall I die by drops of
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: hot desire? Alas, poor world? What treasure hast thou lost?
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: What face remains alive? That's worth the viewing? Whose tongue
- 1:01:28Speaker 2: is music? Now? What canst thou boast of things long since?
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: Or anything ensuing? The flowers are sweet, their colors fresh
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: and trim, but true sweet beauty lived and died with
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: him bonnet nor veil. Henceforth, no creature where, nor sun
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: nor wind will ever strive to kiss you. Having no
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: fare to lose, you need not fear. The sun doth
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: scorn you, and the wind doth hiss you. But when
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: Adonis lived, sun and sharp air lurk'd like too thiets
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: to rob him of his fare, And therefore would he
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: put his bonnet on, under whose brim the gaudy sun
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: would peep, the wind would blow it off, and being gone,
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: play with his locks. Then would Adonis weep and straight
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: in pity of his tender years. They both would strive
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: who first should dry his tears to see his face.
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: The lion walked along behind some hedge, because he would
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: not fear him to recreate himself. When he hath sung,
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: the tiger would be tame and gently hear him. If
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: he had spoke, the wolf would leave his prey and
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: never fright the silly lamb. That day, when he beheld
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: his shadow in the brook, the fishes spread on it
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: their golden gills. When he was by the birds, such
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: pleasure took that some would sing. Some others, in their bills,
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: would bring him maulberries and ripe red cherries. He fed
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: them with his sight. They him with berries. But this
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: foul grim and urchin spouted boar, whose downward eyes still
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: look for a grave. Ne'er saw the beauteous livery that
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: he wore, witness the entertainment that he gave. If he
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: did see his face, Why then I know he thought
- 1:03:10Speaker 2: to kiss him and had killed him. So tis true?
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: Tis true? Thus was Adonis slain. He ran upon the
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: boar with his sharp spear, who did not wet his
- 1:03:20Speaker 2: teeth at him again, but by a kiss thought persuade
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: him there, and nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine sheathed,
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: unaware the tusk in his soft groin. Had I been
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: toothed like him, I must confess with kissing him, I
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: should have killed him first, But he is dead, and
- 1:03:38Speaker 2: never did he bless my youth with his The more
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: am I accursed with this?
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: She falleth in the place she stood, and stains her
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: face with his congealed blood. She looks upon his lips,
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: and they are pale. She takes him by the hand,
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: and that is cold. She whispers in his ears a
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: heavy tail, as if they heard the woeful words she told.
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: She lifts the coffer lid that close his eyes, where
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: low two lamps burnt out in darkness, lies two glasses,
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: where herself herself beheld thousand times, and now no more
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: reflect their virtue lost, wherein they late excelled, and every
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: beauty robbed of his effect.
- 1:04:22Speaker 2: Wonder of time, quoth she, This is my spite, that you,
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: being dead, the day should yet be light, since thou
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: art dead. Low. Here I prophesy sorrow on love hereafter
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: shall attend. It shall be weighted on with jealousy. Find
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: sweet beginning, but unsavory end, ne'er settled equally, but high
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: or low, that all love's pleasure shall not match his woe.
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: It shall be fickle, false and full of fraud, bud
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: and be blasted in a breathing, while the bottom poison
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: and the top or strawed with sweets. That shall the
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: truest sight beguile the strongest body. Shall it make most weak,
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: Strike the wise dumb, and teach the fool to speak.
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: It shall be sparing and too full of riot, teaching
- 1:05:10Speaker 2: decrepit age to tread the measures the staring ruffian. Shall
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: it keep in quiet, pluck down the rich, enrich the
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: poor with treasures. It shall be raging, mad and silly mild,
- 1:05:22Speaker 2: make the young old the old become a child. It
- 1:05:26Speaker 2: shall suspect where is no cause of fear. It shall
- 1:05:29Speaker 2: not fear where it should most mistrust. It shall be
- 1:05:32Speaker 2: merciful and too severe, and most deceiving when it seems
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: most just perverse. It shall be where it shows most toward,
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: put fear to valor courage to the coward. It shall
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: be cause of war and dire events, and set dissension
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: TwixT the sun and sire, subject and servile to all discontents,
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: as dry combustious matter as to fire. Sith in his
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: prime death, doth my love destroy They that love best?
- 1:06:01Speaker 2: Their love shall not enjoy by this?
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: The boy that by her side lay killed, was melted
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: like a vapor from her sight, and in his blood
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: that on the ground lay spilled a purple flower sprung up,
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: checkered with white, resembling well his pale cheeks, and the blood,
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: which in round drops upon their whiteness stood. She bows
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: her head the new sprung flower to smell, comparing it
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: to her Adonis breath, and says, within her bosom it
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: shall dwell, since he himself is reft from her by death.
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: She drops the stalk, and in the breach appears green
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: dropping sap, which she compares to tears.
- 1:06:43Speaker 2: Poor flower, quoth she, this was thy father's guise, sweet
- 1:06:48Speaker 2: issue of a more sweet smelling sire, For every little
- 1:06:52Speaker 2: grief to wet his eyes, to grow unto himself was
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: his desire, and so tis shine. But no, it is
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: as good to wither in my breast as in his blood.
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: Here was thy father's bed. Here in my breast thou
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: art the next of blood, and tis thy right lo
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: in this hollow cradle. Take thy rest. My throbbing heart
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: shall rock thee day and night. There shall not be
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: one minute in an hour wherein I will not kiss
- 1:07:21Speaker 2: my sweet love's flower.
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: Thus, weary of the world away, she hies and yokes
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: her silver doves, by whose swift aid their mistress mounted
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: through the empty skies in her light, chariot quickly is conveyed,
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: holding their course to Paphos, where their queen means to
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: immure herself and not be seen. And a Venus and
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: Adonis by William Shakespeare