46 His face seems twain, each several limb is dou bled; [bled. For oft the eye mistakes, the brain being trou "My tongue cannot express my grief for one, "And yet," quoth she, "behold two Adons dead! My sighs are blown away, my salt tears gone “Mine eyes are turn'd to fire, my heart to lead : Heavy heart's lead, melt at mine eyes' red fire! "So shall I die by drops of hot desire, "Alas, poor world, what treasure hast thou lost! "What face remains alive that's worth the viewing? "Whose tongue is musick now? what canst thou boast "Of things long since, or any thing ensuing? "The flowers are sweet, their colours fresh and trim; "But true-sweet beauty liv'd and died with him. "Bonnet nor veil henceforth no creature wear! Nor sun nor wind will ever strive to kiss you: Having no fair 42 to lose, you need not fear; The sun doth scorn you, and the wind doth hiss you : "But when Adonis liv'd, sun and sharp air "Lurk'd like two thieves, to rob him of his fair; "And therefore would he put his bonnet on, "Under whose brim the gaudy sun would peep; 42 fair] 1. e. beauty. "The wind would blow it off, and, being gone, 66 Play with his locks; then would Adonis weep: "And straight, in pity of his tender years, 66 They both would strive who first should dry his tears. "To see his face, the lion walk'd along "Behind some hedge, because he would not fear him: "To recreate himself, when he hath sung, "The tiger would be tame, and gently hear him: "If he had spoke, the wolf would leave his prey, "And never fright the silly lamb that day. "When he beheld his shadow in the brook, "The fishes spread on it their golden gills; When he was by, the birds such pleasure took, "That some would sing, some other in their bills "Would bring him mulberries, and ripe-red cherries; "He fed them with his sight, they him with berries. "But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted 43 boar, "Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave, "Ne'er saw the beauteous livery that he wore : "Witness the entertainment that he gave; "If he did see his face, why then I know, "He thought to kiss him, and hath kill'd him so. urchin-snouted] i. e. snouted like a hedgehog. ""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, 66 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 "With kissing him I should have kill'd him first; "But he is dead, and never did he bless My youth with his; the more am I accurst." With this she falleth in the place she stood, And stains her face with his congealed blood. She looks upon his lips, and they are pale; She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes, Where, lo! two lamps, burnt out, in darkness lies: Two glasses where herself herself beheld "Wonder of time," quoth she, "this is my spite, "That, you being dead, the day should yet be light. 16 66 Since thou art dead, lo! here I prophesy, end; Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury woe. "It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud; 66 "It shall be sparing, and too full of riot, Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures ;11 "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, 'It shall suspect where is no cause of fear; "And most deceiving, when it seems most just; 44 measures] A measure was a solemn dance with measured st..ps. "Perverse it shall be, where it shows most toward, Put fear to valour, courage to the coward. It shall be cause of war, and dire events, And set dissension 'twixt the son and sire; As dry combustious matter is to fire; "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. flower to smell, She bows her head, the new sprung And says, within her bosom it shall dwell, tears. "Poor flower," quoth she, "tnis was thy father's guise, "(Sweet issue of a more sweet smelling sire) |