Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, 1592-3)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Hardy M. Cook

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VENVS AND ADONIS.

¶VVhen he beheld his shadow in the brooke,
1100The fishes spread on it their golden gils,
¶VVhen he was by the birds such pleasure tooke,
¶That some would sing, some other in their bils
¶_VVould bring him mulberries & ripe-red cherries,
¶_He fed them with his sight, they him with berries.

1105But this foule, grim, and vrchin-snowted Boare,
¶VVhose downeward eye still looketh for a graue:
¶Ne're saw the beautious liuerie that he wore,
¶VVitnesse the intertainment that he gaue.
¶_If he did see his face, why then I know,
1110_He thought to kisse him, and hath kild him so.

¶Tis true, tis true, thus was Adonis slaine,
¶He ran vpon the Boare with his sharpe speare,
¶VVho did not whet his teeth at him againe,
¶But by a kisse thought to persuade him there.
1115_And nousling in his flanke the louing swine,
¶_Sheath'd vnaware the tuske in his soft groine.

¶Had I bin tooth'd like him I must confesse,
¶VVith kissing him I should haue kild him first,
¶But he is dead, and neuer did he blesse
1120My youth with his, the more am I accurst.
¶_VVith this she falleth in the place she stood,
¶_And staines her face with his congealed bloud.

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