56386Her lillie hand, her ro
sie cheeke lies vnder,
387Coo
sning the pillow of a lawfull ki
sse:
388Who therefore angrie seemes to part in
sunder,
389Swelling on either
side to want his bli
sse.
390Betweene who
se hils her head intombed is;
391 Where like a vertuous Monument
shee lies,
392 To be admir'd of lewd vnhallowed eyes.
57393Without the bed her other faire hand was,
394On the greene couerlet who
se perfe
ct white
395Showed like an Aprill dazie on the gra
sse,
396With pearlie
swet re
sembling dew of night.
397Her eyes like Marigolds had
sheath'd their light,
398 And canopied in darkene
sse
sweetly lay,
399 Till they might open to adorne the day.
58400Her haire like goldē threeds playd with her breath,
401O mode
st wantons, wanton mode
stie!
402Showing lifes triumph in the map of death,
403And deaths dim looke in lifes mortalitie.
404Ech in her
sleepe them
selues
so beauti
fie,
405 As if betweene them twaine there were no
strife,
406 But that life liu'd in death, and death in life.
59407Her brea
sts like Iuory globes circled with blew,
408A paire of maiden worlds vnconquered,
409Saue of their Lord, no bearing yoke they knew,
410And him by oath they truely honored.
411The
se worlds in
TARQVIN new ambition bred,
412 Who like a fowle v
surper went about,
413 From this faire throne to heaue the owner out.
60414What could he
see but mightily he noted?
415What did he note, but
strongly he de
sired?
416What he beheld, on that he
firmely doted,
417And in his will his wilfull eye he tyred.
418With more then admiration he admired
419 Her azure vaines, her alabla
ster skinne,
420 Her corall lips, her
snow-white dimpled chin.