![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How now? What new conceits, what strange contraries, breed in thy mind? Is 428thy Diana become a Venus, thy chaste thoughts turned to wanton looks, thy conquering modesty to a 429captive imagination? Beginnest thou with piralis to die in the air and live in the fire, to 430leave the sweet delight of hunting and to follow the hot desire of love? O Telusa, these 431words are unfit for thy sex, being a virgin, but apt for thy affections, being a lover. Then might you gather froth where now is dew, rotten weeds for sweet roses, and take view of monstrous mermaids instead of passing fair maids. Then might you see ships sail where sheep fed, anchors cast where ploughs go, fishermen 36throw their nets where husbandmen sow their corn, and fishes throw their scales where fowls do breed 37their quills. But Fortune, constant in 29nothing but inconstancy, did change her copy, as the people their custom for, the land being oppressed 30by Danes - who instead of sacrifice committed sacrilege, instead of religion rebellion, and made a prey 31of that in which they should have made their prayers, tearing down the temple even with the earth, being almost equal with the skies - enraged so the god who binds the winds in 33the hollows of the earth that he caused the seas to break their bounds sith men 34had broke their vows, and to swell as far above their reach as men had swerved beyond 35their reason. Hither came all such as either ventured by long travel to see 27countries or by great traffic to use merchandise, offering sacrifice by fire to get safety by water, 28yielding thanks for perils past and making prayers for good success to come. In times past, where thou see'st a heap of small pebble stood a 25stately temple of white marble, which was dedicated to the God of the Sea, and in right, 26being so near the sea. ![]()
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