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venus and adonis-第4部分

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  Look when a painter would surpass the life

  In limning out a well…proportioned steed;

  His art with nature's workmanship at strife;

  As if the dead the living should exceed;

    So did this horse excel a common one

    In shape; in courage; colour; pace and bone。



  Round…hoofed; short…jointed; fetlocks shag and long;

  Broad breast; full eye; small head and nostril wide;

  High crest; short ears; straight legs and passing strong;

  Thin mane; thick tail; broad buttock; tender hide;

    Look what a horse should have he did not lack;

    Save a proud rider on so proud a back。



  Sometime he scuds far off; and there he stares;

  Anon he starts at stirring of a feather;

  To bid the wind a base he now prepares;

  And whe'er he run or fly they know not whether;

    For through his mane and tail the high wind sings;

    Fanning the hairs; who wave like feath'red wings。



  He looks upon his love and neighs unto her;

  She answers him as if she knew his mind;

  Being proud; as females are; to see him woo her;

  She puts on outward strangeness; seems unkind;

    Spurns at his love and scorns the heat he feels;

    Beating his kind embracements with her heels。



  Then; like a melancholy malcontent;

  He vails his tail; that; like a falling plume;

  Cool shadow to his melting buttock lent;

  He stamps; and bites the poor flies in his fume。

    His love; perceiving how he was enraged;

    Grew kinder; and his fury was assuaged。



  His testy master goeth about to take him;

  When; lo; the unbacked breeder; full of fear;

  Jealous of catching; swiftly doth forsake him;

  With her the horse; and left Adonis there。

    As they were mad; unto the wood they hie them;

    Out…stripping crows that strive to over…fly them。



  All swoln with chafing; down Adonis sits;

  Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;

  And now the happy season once more fits

  That love…sick Love by pleading may be blest;

    For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong

    When it is barred the aidance of the tongue。



  An oven that is stopped; or river stayed;

  Burneth more hotly; swelleth with more rage;

  So of concealed sorrow may be said;

  Free vent of words love's fire doth assuage;

    But when the heart's attorney once is mute;

    The client breaks; as desperate in his suit。



  He sees her coming; and begins to glow;

  Even as a dying coal revives with wind;

  And with his bonnet hides his angry brow;

  Looks on the dull earth with disturbed mind;

    Taking no notice that she is so nigh;

    For all askance he holds her in his eye。



  O; what a sight it was; wistly to view

  How she came stealing to the wayward boy!

  To note the fighting conflict of her hue;

  How white and red each other did destroy!

    But now her cheek was pale; and by and by

    It flashed forth fire; as lightning from the sky。



  Now was she just before him as he sat;

  And like a lowly lover down she kneels;

  With one fair hand she heaveth up his hat;

  Her other tender hand his fair cheek feels;

    His tend'rer cheek receives her soft hand's print

    As apt as new…fall'n snow takes any dint。



  O; what a war of looks was then between them;

  Her eyes petitioners to his eyes suing!

  His eyes saw her eyes as they had not seen them;

  Her eyes wooed still; his eyes disdained the wooing;

    And all this dumb play had his acts made plain

    With tears which chorus…like her eyes did rain。



  Full gently now she takes him by the hand;

  A lily prisoned in a gaol of snow;

  Or ivory in an alabaster band;

  So white a friend engirts so white a foe:

    This beauteous combat; wilful and unwilling;

    Showed like two silver doves that sit a…billing。



  Once more the engine of her thoughts began:

  'O fairest mover on this mortal round;

  Would thou wert as I am; and I a man;

  My heart all whole as thine; thy heart my wound;

    For one sweet look thy help I would assure thee;

    Though nothing but my body's bane would cure thee。'



  'Give me my hand;' saith he; 'why dost thou feel it?'

  'Give me my heart;' saith she; 'and thou shalt have it;

  O; give it me; lest thy hard heart do steel it;

  And being steeled; soft sighs can never grave it;

    Then love's deep groans I never shall regard;

    Because Adonis' heart hath made mine hard。'



  'For shame;' he cries; 'let go; and let me go;

  My day's delight is past; my horse is gone;

  And 'tis your fault I am bereft him so。

  I pray you hence; and leave me here alone;

    For all my mind; my thought; my busy care;

    Is how to get my palfrey from the mare。'



  'O; where am I?' quoth she; 'in earth or heaven;

  Or in the ocean drenched; or in the fire?

  What hour is this? or morn or weary even?

  Do I delight to die; or life desire?

    But now I lived; and life was death's annoy;

    But now I died; and death was lively joy。



  'O; thou didst kill me: kill me once again。

  Thy eyes' shrewd tutor; that hard heart of thine;

  Hath taught them scornful tricks; and such disdain

  That they have murd'red this poor heart of mine;

    And these mine eyes; true leaders to their queen;

    But for thy piteous lips no more had seen。



  'Long may they kiss each other; for this cure!

  O; never let their crimson liveries wear!

  And as they last; their verdure still endure

  To drive infection from the dangerous year!

    That the star…gazers; having writ on death;

    May say; the plague is banished by thy breath。



  'Pure lips; sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted;

  What bargains may I make; still to be sealing?

  To sell myself I can be well contented;

  So thou wilt buy; and pay; and use good dealing;

    Which purchase if thou make; for fear of slips

    Set thy seal manual on my wax…red lips。



  'A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;

  And pay them at thy leisure; one by one。

  What is ten hundred touches unto thee?

  Are they not quickly told and quickly gone?

    Say for non…payment that the debt should double;

    Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?'



  'Fair queen;' quoth he; 'if any love you owe me;

  Measure my strangeness with my unripe years;

  Before I know myself; seek not to know me;

  No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears。

    The mellow plum doth fall; the green sticks fast;

    Or being early plucked is sour to taste。



  'Look; the world's comforter; with weary gait;

  His day's hot task hath ended in the west;

  The owl; night's herald; shrieks 'tis very late;

  The sheep are gone to fold; birds to their nest;

    And coal…black clouds that shadow heaven's light

    Do summon us to part; and bid good night。



  'Now let me say 〃Good night〃; and so say you;

  If you will say so; you shall have a kiss。'

  'Good night'; quoth she; and; ere he says 'Adieu';

  The honey fee of parting tend'red is:

    Her arms do lend his neck a
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