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- Edition: Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis (Modern)
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662The picture of an angry chafing boar,
663Under whose sharp fangs on his back doth lie
664An image like thyself, all stained with gore,
665 Whose blood upon the fresh flowers being shed
666 Doth make them droop with grief and hang the head.
668That tremble at th' imagination?
669The thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed,
670And fear doth teach it divination.
671 I prophesy thy death, my living sorrow,
672 If thou encounter with the boar tomorrow.
674Uncouple at the timorous flying hare,
675Or at the fox which lives by subtlety,
676Or at the roe which no encounter dare.
677 Pursue these fearful creatures o'er the downs,
678 And on thy well-breathed horse keep with thy hounds.
680Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles,
681How he outruns the wind and with what care
682He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles.
683 The many musits through the which he goes
684 Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.
686To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell,
687And sometime where earth-delving conies keep
688To stop the loud pursuers in their yell;
689 And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer.
690 Danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear.