"Love's arms are peace, 26 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense, 'gainst shame, "And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears, "The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears. "Now all these hearts that do on mine depend, "Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pire, "And supplicant their sighs to you extend, "To leave the battery that you make 'gainst mine, Lending soft audience to my sweet design, "And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath, "That shall prefer and undertake my troth. "This said, his watery eyes 27 he did dismount, "Whose sights till then were levell❜d on my face; "Each cheek a river running from a fount . With brinish current downward flow'd apace: "O how the channel to the stream gave grace! "Who, glaz'd with crystal, gate 28 the glowing roses "That flame through water which their hue incloses. 26 Love's arms are peace, &c.] "The meaning may bethe warfare that love carries on against rule, sense, &c. produces to the parties engaged a peaceful enjoyment, and weetens, &c." MALONE. his watery eyes, &c.] "The allusion is to the old English fire-arms, which were supported on what was called a rest." MALONE. * gate] i. e. got. "O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies "In the small orb of one particular tear? "But with the inundation of the eyes 'What rocky heart to water will not wear? "What breast so cold that is not warmed here? "O cleft effect! cold modesty, hot wrath, "Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath! "For lo! his passion, but an art of craft, "Even there resolv'd my reason into tears; "There my white stole of chastity I daff'd, "Shook off my sober guards, and civil 29 fears, Appear to him, as he to me appears, "All melting; though our drops this difference bore, "His poison'd me, and mine did him restore. "In him a plenitude of subtle matter, 66 Applied to cautels,30 all strange forms receives, "Of burning blushes, or of weeping water, "Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves, "In either's aptness, as it best deceives, "To blush at speeches rank, to weep at woes, "Or to turn white and swoon at tragick shows; "That not a heart which in his level came, Showing fair nature is both kind and tame "And veil'd in them, did win whom he woul maim: 66 Against the thing he sought he would excla "When he most burn'd in heart-wish'd luxu "He preach'd pure maid, and prais'd cold chas 66 "Thus merely with the garment of a Grace "The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd, "That the unexperienc'd gave the tempter pl Which, like a cherubin, above them hover' Who, young and simple, would not be so love "Ah me! I fell; and yet do question make “What I should do again for such a sake. 66 66 O, that infected moisture of his eye, O, that false fire which in his cheek so glo "O, that forc'd thunder from his heart did f "O, that sad breath his spungy lungs bestow "O, all that borrow'd motion, seeming ow'd "Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd, "And new pervert a reconciled maid!" 31 luxury] i. e. lewdness. 32 ow'd] i. e. owned, his 248 PASSIONATE PILGRIM. I. SWEET Cytherea, sitting by a brook, Such looks as none could look but beauty's queen She show'd him favours to allure his eye; To win his heart, she touch'd him here and there : But whether unripe years did want conceit, Then fell she on her back, fair queen, and toward; II. Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn, A longing tarriance for Adonis made, A brook, where Adon us'd to cool his spleen. brim ; For his approach, that often there had been. Anon he comes, and throws his mantle by, And stood stark naked on the brook's green The sun look'd on the world with glorious eye, Yet not so wistly, as this queen on him: He spying her, bounc'd in, whereas he stood; O Jove, quoth she, why was not I a flood? III. Fair was the morn, when the fair queen of love, .1 Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove, See in my thigh, quoth she, here was the sore: IV. Venus with [young] Adonis sitting by her, Here a line has dropped out. |