vnto kind:
But this affection nothing straunge I find;
6 For who with reason can you aye reproue,
To loue the semblant pleasing most your mind,
8 And yield your heart, whence ye cannot remoue?
No guilt in you, but in the tyranny of loue.
1 "Daughter," said she, "what need you be dismayed,
Daughter > {Girl, maiden; also a term of affectionate address used
by any older person to a girl or young woman}
need you > [need do you have to]
2 Or why make you such monster of your mind?
monster > [a monster]
3 Of much more uncouth thing I was afraid;
uncouth > unseemly
4 Of filthy lust, contrary to kind:
kind > Nature; your nature
5 But this affection nothing strange I find;
nothing > not at all
6 For who with reason can you ay reprove,
ay > ever
7 To love the semblant pleasing most your mind,
semblant > image
8 And yield your heart, whence you cannot remove?
9 No guilt in you, but in the tyranny of love.
302.41
Not so th'_Arabian Myrrhe_ did set her mind;
2 +Nor+ so did _Biblis_ spend her pining hart,
But lou'd their natiue flesh against all kind,
4 And to their purpose vsed wicked art:
Yet playd _Pasipha{e"}_ a more +monstrous+ part,
6 That lou'd a Bull, and learnd a beast to bee;
Such shamefull lusts who loaths not, which depart
8 From course of nature and of modestie?
Sweet loue such lewdnes bands from his faire companie.
2 Nor > Not _1590 etc.: FE_
5 monstrous > mostrous _1596_
1 "Not so the Arabian Myrrha did set her mind;
Myrrha > (Who desired her own father; see _Met._ 10, 101.9:6)
2 Nor so did Biblis spend her pining heart,
Biblis > (Who desired her brother; see _Met._ 9.453 ff.)
3 But loved their native flesh against all kind,
native > {Connected by birth, closely related}
kind > {Nature, that which is natural}
4 And to their purpose used wicked art:
5 Yet played Pasiphae a more monstrous part,
Pasiphae > (Who contrived sexual intercourse with a bull, giving
birth as a result to the Minotaur; see _Met._ 9.735-44)
part > (With the scurrilous double meaning: cf. e.g. 202.37:5)
6 That loved a bull, and learned a beast to be;
7 Such shameful lusts who loathes not, which depart
depart > deviate
8 From course of nature and of modesty?
9 Sweet Love such lewdness bandies from his fair company.
bandies > (To "bandy" is to throw or drive a ball away; hence,
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