"Vouchsafe, thou wonder, to alight thy steed, "And yet not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety, With this she seizeth on his sweating palm, And, trembling in her passion, calls it balm, Over one arm the lusty courser's rein, She red and hot as coals of glowing fire, The studded bridle on a ragged bough To tie the rider she begins to prove : Backward she pushed him, as she would be thrust, And governed him in strength, though not in lust. So soon was she along, as he was down, And kissing speaks, with lustful language broken, "If thou wilt chide, thy lips shall never open.' He burns with bashful shame; she with her tears Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, Even so she kissed his brow, his cheek, his chin, Forced to content,3 but never to obey, 1 'Miss, amiss, fault. So in Sonnet CLI. : "Love is too young to know what conscience is; Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove." 2 Tires, tears, preys. The image is to be found without vary ation in Henry VI. Part III. Act 1. Sc. I. : Revenged may she be on that hateful duke; Will cost my crown, and, like an empty eagle, 3 Content, acquiescence. She feedeth on the steam, as on a prey, Wishing her cheeks were gardens full of flowers, Look how a bird lies tangled in a net; So fastened in her arms Adonis lies; Pure shame and awed resistance made him fret, Rain added to a river that is rank,1 Still she entreats, and prettily entreats, For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale; Being red, she loves him best; and being white, Look how he can, she cannot choose but love; Till he take truce with her contending tears, Which long have rained, making her cheeks all wet; And one sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt. Upon this promise did he raise his chin, Like a di-dapper peering through a wave, 1 Rank, full. Rank is often used to express excess or violence generally; and rankness is applied to a flood, in King John, Act v Sc. IV. : "And like a bated and retired flood, Leaving our rankness and irregular course." 2 Di-dapper. This is generally printed dive-dapper, without any Who, being looked on, ducks as quickly in; But when her lips were ready for his pay, Never did passenger in summer's heat "I have been wooed, as I entreat thee now, "Over my altars hath he hung his lance, And for my sake hath learned to sport and dance, Scorning his churlish drum, and ensign red, "Thus he that overruled I overswayed, Leading him prisoner in a red-rose chain: authority. One of the familiar names of the dab-chick is di-dapper; and this was the old poetical name. Beaumont and Fletcher, in "The Woman Hater," have a comparison of the mutability of fortune with this nimble water-bird: "The misery of man may fitly be compared to a di-dapper, who, when she is under water past our sight, and indeed can scem no more to us, rises again, shakes but herself, and is the same she was." Strong-tempered steel his stronger strength obeyed, O, be not proud, nor brag not of thy might, "Touch but my lips with those fair lips of thine, Look in mine eyeballs, there thy beauty lies: "Art thou ashamed to kiss? then wink again, These blue-veined violets whereon we lean "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip Fair flowers that are not gathered in their prime "Were I hard-favored, foul, or wrinkled-old, Then mightst thou pause, for then I were not for thee; But having no defects, why dost abhor me? |