Come not within his danger' by thy will; They that thrive well take counsel of their friends. When thou didst name the boar, not to dissemble, I feared thy fortune, and my joints did tremble. "Didst thou not mark my face? Was it not white? Saw'st thou not signs of fear lurk in mine eye? Grew I not faint? And fell I not downright? Within my bosom, whereon thou dost lie, My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest, But like an earthquake, shakes thee on my breast, "For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy "This sour informer, this bate-breeding spy, This canker that eats up love's tender spring,3 This carry-tale, dissentious jealousy, That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring, Knocks at my heart, and whispers in mine ear, "And, more than so, presenteth to mine eye The picture of an angry-chafing boar, 1 Danger, power of doing harm. So in the Merchant of Venice, Act iv. Sc. I. : "You stand within his danger." See note on that passage. 2 Bate signifies strife. Mrs. Quickly says that John Rugby 1 no breed-bate. Under whose sharp fangs on his back doth lie "What should I do, seeing thee so indeed, That tremble at the imagination? 'The thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed, And fear doth teach it divination: I prophesy thy death, my living sorrow, If thou encounter with the boar to-morrow. "But if thou needs wilt hunt, be ruled by me; Uncouple at the timorous, flying hare, Or at the fox, which lives by subtilty, Or at the roe, which no encounter dare: Pursue these fearful creatures o'er the downs, And on thy well-breathed horse keep with thy hounds. "And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare, 1 Overshoot. The original editions read overshut. This read. ing is retained by Malone. 2 Cranks, winds. So in Henry IV. Part I. : "See how this river comes me cranking in." 3 Musits. The term is explained in Markham's "Gentiemen's Academy," 1595: "We term the place where she [the hare] sitteth her form; the place through which she goes to relief her musit." "Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep, And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer; "For there his smell with others being mingled, The hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt, Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled With much ado the cold fault cleanly out; Then do they spend their mouths: Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies. "By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, And now his grief may be comparéd well "Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch "Lie quietly, and hear a little more; Keep, dwell. 2 Sorteth, consorteth. 3 Moralize, comment. Applying this to that, and so to so, For love can comment upon every woe. "Where did I leave ?"-"No matter where," quoth he; "Leave me, and then the story aptly ends: The night is spent.". 66 she. Why, what of that?" quoth "I am," quoth he, "expected of my friends; "But if thou fall, O, then imagine this, Rich preys make true men thieves; so do thy lips Lest she should steal a kiss, and die forsworn. "Now of this dark night I perceive the reason: "And therefore hath she bribed the Destinies, Of mad mischances and much misery; "As burning fevers, agues pale and faint, 1 Wood, mad. The marrow-eating sickness, whose attaint Surfeits, imposthumes, grief, and damned despair, "And not the least of all these maladies, Are on the sudden wasted, thawed, and done,1 "Therefore despite of fruitless chastity, "What is thy body but a swallowing grave, Which by the rights of time thou needs must have, If so, the world will hold thee in disdain, "So in thyself thyself art made away ; A mischief worse than civil home-bred strife, Or theirs whose desperate hands themselves do slay, Or butcher-sire, that reaves his son of life Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, 1 Done, destroyed. |