28163Torches are made to light, iewels to weare,
164Dainties to ta
st, fre
sh beautie for the v
se,
165Herbes for their
smell, and
sappie plants to beare.
166Things growing to them
selues, are growths abu
se,
167 Seeds
spring frō
seeds, & beauty breedeth beauty,
168 Thou wa
st begot, to get it is thy duty.
29169Vpon the earths increa
se why
should
st thou feed,
170Vnle
sse the earth with thy increa
se be fed?
171By law of nature thou art bound to breed,
172That thine may liue, when thou thy
selfe art dead:
173 And
so in
spite of death thou doe
stsuruiue,
174 In that thy likene
sse
still is left aliue.
30175By this the loue-
sicke Queene began to
sweate,
176For where they lay the
shadow had for
sooke them,
177And Titan tired in the midday heate,
178With burning eye did hotly ouer-looke them,
179 Wi
shing Adonis had his teame to guide,
180 So he were like him, and by Venus
side.
31181And now Adonis with a lazie
sprite,
182And with a heauie, darke, di
sliking eye,
183His lowring browes ore-whelming his faire
sight,
184Like mi
stie vapors when they blot the skie,
185 So wring his cheekes, cries,
fie, no more of loue,
186 The
sunne doth burne my face I mu
st remoue.
Ay, me,