"Thou canst not see one wrinkle in my brow; Mine eyes are gray,' and bright, and quick in turn ing; My beauty as the spring doth yearly grow, "Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. "Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie ; These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me; Is thine own heart to thine own face affected? Can thy right hand seize love upon thy left? And died to kiss his shadow in the brook. "Torches are made to light, jewels to wear, Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use, 1 Gray is said to be here used as blue. We have subsequently "Her two blue windows faintly she upheaveth." But the eye-lids are the blue windows." 2 Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear; 66 Upon the earth's increase why shouldst thou feed, Unless the earth with thy increase be fed? By law of Nature thou art bound to breed, That thine may live, when thou thyself art dead By this the love-sick queen began to sweat, With burning eye did hotly overlook them; And now Adonis, with a lazy spright, Souring his cheeks, cries, “ Fie, no more of love' "Ah me," quoth Venus, "young, and so unkind! 1 'Tired, attired. "The sun that shines from heaven shines but warm, And lo, I lie between that sun and thee; The heat I have from thence doth little harm, "Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.1 "What am I, that thou shouldst contemn me this? And one for interest, if thou wilt have twain. Fie, lifeless picture, cold and senseless stone, Thing like a man, but of no woman bred; Thou art no man, though of a man's complexion, For men will kiss even by their own direction.” This said, impatience chokes her pleading tongue, 1 Unkind. Milton applies the same epithet, in the same way, in his "Doctrine of Divorce: ""The desire and longing to put off an unkindly solitariness by uniting another body, but not without a fit soul, to his, in the cheerful society of wedlock." 2 Contemn is here used in the sense of throw aside; as Malone explains it, "contemptuously refuse this favor." Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong; Sometimes she shakes her head, and then his hand, "Fondling," she saith, "since I have hemmed thee here, Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: "Within this limit is relief enough, Then be my deer, since I am such a park ; At this Adonis smiles as in disdain, That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple : 66 1 Intendments, intentions. So in Othello, Act IV. Sc. 11.: "1 have said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing " The word continued to be used long after the time of Shakspeare. Foreknowing well if there he came to lie, These lovely caves, these round-enchanting pits, Now which way shall she turn? what shall she say? Her words are done, her woes the more increasing, The time is spent, her object will away, And from her twining arms doth urge releasing: Pity she cries 99 1 some re morse Away he springs, and hasteth to his horse. But lo, from forth a copse that neighbors by, And forth she rushes, snorts, and neighs aloud: The strong-necked steed, being tied unto a tree, Breaketh his rein, and to her straight goes he. Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds, 1 Remorse, tenderness |