Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, 1592-3)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Hardy M. Cook

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VENVS AND ADONIS.

¶For shame he cries, let go, and let me go,
380My dayes delight is past, my horse is gone,
¶And tis your fault I am bereft him so,
¶I pray you hence, and leaue me here alone,
¶_For all my mind, my thought, my busie care,
¶_Is how to get my palfrey from the mare.

385Thus she replies, thy palfrey as he should,
¶VVelcomes the warme approch of sweet desire,
¶Affection is a coale that must be coold,
¶Else sufferd it will set the heart on fire,
¶_The sea hath bounds, but deepe desire hath none,
390_Therfore no maruell though thy horse be gone.

¶How like a iade he stood tied to the tree,
¶Seruilly maisterd with a leatherne raine,
¶Bnt when he saw his loue, his youths faire fee,
¶He held such pettie bondage in disdaine:
395_Throwing the base thong from his bending crest,
¶_Enfranchising his mouth, his backe, his brest.

¶VVho sees his true-loue in her naked bed,
¶Teaching the sheets a whiter hew then white,
¶But when his glutton eye so full hath fed,
400His other agents ayme at like delight?
¶_VVho is so faint that dares not be so bold,
¶_To touch the fier the weather being cold?
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