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1022As one with treasure laden, hemmed with thieves.
1023Trifles unwitnessèd with eye or ear
1024Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves."
1025 Even at this word she hears a merry horn,
1026 Whereat she leaps that was but late forlorn.
1028The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light;
1029And in her haste unfortunately spies
1030The foul boar's conquest on her fair delight;
1031 Which seen, her eyes are murdered with the view,
1032 Like stars ashamed of day, themselves withdrew.
1034Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain,
1035And there, all smothered up, in shade doth sit,
1036Long after fearing to creep forth again;
1037 So at his bloody view her eyes are fled
1038 Into the deep-dark cabins of her head,
1040To the disposing of her troubled brain,
1041Who bids them still consort with ugly night
1042And never wound the heart with looks again,
1043 Who, like a king perplexèd in his throne,
1044 By their suggestion gives a deadly groan.
1046As when the wind imprisoned in the ground,
1047Struggling for passage, earth's foundation shakes,
1048Which with cold terror doth men's minds confound.
1049 This mutiny each part doth so surprise
1050 That from their dark beds once more leap her eyes;