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- Edition: Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, 1593)
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392Seruilly maisterd with a leatherne raine,
393Bnt when he saw his loue, his youths faire fee,
398Teaching the sheets a whiter hew then white,
399But when his glutton eye so full hath fed,
400His other agents ayme at like delight?
404And learne of him I heartily beseech thee,
405To take aduantage on presented ioy,
406Though I were dūbe, yet his proceedings teach thee
411Tis much to borrow, and I will not owe it,
412My loue to loue, is loue, but to disgrace it,
413 For I haue heard, it is a life in death,
414 That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.
416Who plucks the bud before one leafe put forth?
418They wither in their prime, proue nothing worth,
419 The colt that's backt and burthend being yong,