VENUS and ADONIS.
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The kiss I gave you is bestow'd in vain,
And all in vain you strive against the stream.
For by this black-fac'd night, desires foul nurse,
Your treatise makes me like you worse and worse.
And all in vain you strive against the stream.
For by this black-fac'd night, desires foul nurse,
Your treatise makes me like you worse and worse.
If love have lent you twenty thousand tongues,
And every tongue more moving than your own,
Bewitching like the wanton Mermaids songs,
Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown:
For know, my heart stands armed in mine ear,
And will not let a false sound enter there:
And every tongue more moving than your own,
Bewitching like the wanton Mermaids songs,
Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown:
For know, my heart stands armed in mine ear,
And will not let a false sound enter there:
Lest the deceiving harmony should run
Into the quiet closure of my brest,
And then my little heart were quite undone,
In his bed-chamber to be bar'd of rest:
No Lady, no: my heart longs not to groan,
But soundly sleeps, while now it sleeps alone.
Into the quiet closure of my brest,
And then my little heart were quite undone,
In his bed-chamber to be bar'd of rest:
No Lady, no: my heart longs not to groan,
But soundly sleeps, while now it sleeps alone.
What have you urg'd that I cannot reprove?
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger,
I hate not love, but your device in love,
That lends embracements unto every stranger.
You do it for encrease: O strange excuse!
When reason is the Bawd to lusts abuse.
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger,
I hate not love, but your device in love,
That lends embracements unto every stranger.
You do it for encrease: O strange excuse!
When reason is the Bawd to lusts abuse.
Call it not love, for love to heaven is fled,
Since sweating Lust on earth usurps his name;
Under whose simple semblance he hath fed,
Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame;
Since sweating Lust on earth usurps his name;
Under whose simple semblance he hath fed,
Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame;
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