Venus and Adonis (Modern)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Hardy M. Cook

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Venus and Adonis (Modern)
- Work
- Stanza
  1. Dedication
  2. 1 — 5
  3. 6 — 10
  4. 11 — 15
  5. 16 — 20
  6. 21 — 25
  7. 26 — 30
  8. 31 — 35
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Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, 1592-3)
- Work
- Stanza
  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. 2 — 6
  4. 7 — 11
  5. 12 — 16
  6. 17 — 21
  7. 22 — 26
  8. 27 — 31
  9. 32 — 36
  10. 37 — 41
  11. 42 — 46
  12. 47 — 51
  13. 52 — 56
  14. 57 — 61
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  27. 122 — 126
  28. 127 — 131
  29. 132 — 136
  30. 137 — 141
  31. 142 — 146
  32. 147 — 151
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  34. 157 — 161
  35. 162 — 166
  36. 167 — 171
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  38. 177 — 181
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  40. 187 — 191
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  42. 197 — 199
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¶With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace
¶Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast,
¶And homeward through the dark laund runs apace,
¶Leaves love upon her back, deeply distressed.
815_Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky,
¶_So glides he in the night from Venus' eye.

¶Which after him she darts, as one on shore
¶Gazing upon a late embarkèd friend
¶Till the wild waves will have him seen no more,
820Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend.
¶_So did the merciless and pitchy night,
¶_Fold in the object that did feed her sight.

¶Whereat amazed, as one that unaware
¶Hath dropped a precious jewel in the flood,
825Or stonisht, as night wanderers often are,
¶Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood,
¶_Even so confounded in the dark she lay,
¶_Having lost the fair discovery of her way.

¶And now she beats her heart, whereat it groans,
830That all the neighbor caves, as seeming troubled,
¶Make verbal repetition of her moans;
¶Passion on passion, deeply is redoubled.
¶_"Ay me," she cries, and twenty times, "Woe, Woe,"
¶_And twenty echoes twenty times cry so.

835She marking them begins a wailing note
¶And sings extemporally a woeful ditty
¶How love makes young men thrall and old men dote,
¶How love is wise in folly, foolish witty.
¶_Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe,
840_And still the choir of echoes answer so.

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