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- Edition: Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, 1593)
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VENVS AND ADONIS.
212Well painted idoll, image dull, and dead,
213Statüe contenting but the eye alone,
214Thing like a man, but of no woman bred:
215 Thou art no man, though of a mans complexion,
219Red cheeks, and fierie eyes blaze forth her wrong:
224Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground;
225Sometime her armes infold him like a band,
226She would, he will not in her armes be bound:
230Within the circuit of this iuorie pale,
231Ile be a parke, and thou shalt be my deare:
232Feed where thou wilt, on mountaine, or in dale;
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