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- Edition: Venus and Adonis
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212Well-painted idol, image dull and dead,
213Statue contenting but the eye alone,
214Thing like a man, but of no woman bred:
215 Thou art no man, though of a man's complexion,
216 For men will kiss even by their own direction."
218And swelling passion doth provoke a pause.
219Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong.
220Being judge in love, she cannot right her cause;
221 And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak,
222 And now her sobs do her intendments break.
224Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground.
225Sometime her arms enfold him like a band.
226She would, he will not in her arms be bound;
227 And when from thence he struggles to be gone,
228 She locks her lily fingers one in one.
230Within the circuit of this ivory pale,
231I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer.
232Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale;
233 Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry,
234 Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
236Sweet bottom grass and high delightful plain,
237Round rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,
238To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.
239 Then be my deer, since I am such a park;
240 No dog shall rouse thee, though a thousand bark."