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
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  14. 57 — 61
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  30. 137 — 141
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  34. 157 — 161
  35. 162 — 166
  36. 167 — 171
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  42. 197 — 199
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¶Variable passions throng her constant woe,
¶As striving who should best become her grief.
¶All entertained, each passion labors so
970That every present sorrow seemeth chief,
¶_But none is best; then join they all together,
¶_Like many clouds consulting for foul weather.

¶By this, far off, she hears some huntsman hallow,
¶A nurse's song ne'er pleased her babe so well.
975The dire imagination she did follow
¶This sound of hope doth labor to expel;
¶_For now reviving joy bids her rejoice
¶_And flatters her it is Adonis' voice.

¶Whereat her tears began to turn their tide,
980Being prisoned in her eye like pearls in glass;
¶Yet sometimes falls an orient drop beside,
¶Which her cheek melts, as scorning it should pass,
¶_To wash the foul face of the sluttish ground,
¶_Who is but drunken when she seemeth drowned.

985O hard-believing love, how strange it seems
¶Not to believe, and yet too credulous.
¶Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes.
¶Despair and hope makes thee ridiculous.
¶_The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely;
990_In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly.

¶Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought;
¶Adonis lives, and death is not to blame.
¶It was not she that called him all to naught.
¶Now she adds honors to his hateful name;
995_She clepes him king of graves and grave for kings,
¶_Imperious supreme of all mortal things.

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