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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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