And having felt the sweetness of the spoil, Her face doth reek and smoke, her blood doth boil, Planting oblivion, beating reason back, 561 Hot, faint and weary, with her hard embracing, What wax so frozen but dissolves with tempering, Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward. When he did frown, O, had she then gave over, 571 Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last. For pity now she can no more detain him; The which, by Cupid's bow she doth protest, 580 'Sweet boy,' she says, 'this night I'll waste in sorrow, To hunt the boar with certain of his friends. The boar!' quoth she: whereat a sudden pale, Now is she in the very lists of love, He will not manage her, although he mount her; That worse than Tantalus' is her annoy, To clip Elysium, and to lack her joy. Even so poor birds, deceived with painted grapes, Even so she languisheth in her mishaps As those poor birds that helpless berries saw. 'The warm effects which she in him finds missing 590 600 But all in vain; good queen, it will not be : ; 'Fie, fie,' he says, 'you crush me; let me go; στο Thou hadst been gone,' quoth she, 'sweet boy, ere this, But that thou told'st me thou wouldst hunt the boar. O, be advised: thou know'st not what it is With javelin's point a churlish swine to gore, Whose tushes never sheathed he whetteth still, Like to a mortal butcher, bent to kill. 'On his bow-back he hath a battle set Of bristly pikes, that ever threat his foes; His eyes, like glow-worms, shine when he doth fret ; Being moved, he strikes whate'er is in his way, 620 His brawny sides, with hairy bristles armed, The thorny brambles and embracing bushes, 'Alas, he nought esteems that face of thine, But having thee at vantage-wondrous dread !- 631 'O, let him keep his loathsome cabin still; Beauty hath nought to do with such foul fiends: Come not within his danger by thy will; They that thrive well take counsel of their friends. 640 When thou didst name the boar, not to dissemble, I fear'd thy fortune, and my joints did tremble. |