George Chapman

Name: Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad
Author: George Chapman

Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad (1821)

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“Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad”, published in 1821, is a work by George Chapman. It explores elements such as count'nances, grief sustain and Knit.

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad (1821)

“ But Venus' looks brought wrath, and urged fear.
Her robe was scarlet, black her head's attire,
And through her naked breast shin'd streams of fire,
As when the rarified air is driven
In flashing streams, and opes the darken'd heaven.
In her white hand a wreath of yew she bore,
And breaking the icy wreath sweet Hero wore,
She forc'd about her brows her wreath of yew,
And said, "Now, minion! to thy fate be true,
Though not to me; endure what this portends!
Begin where lightness will, in shame it ends.
Love makes thee cunning ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad (1821)

“ Venus flew
From Hero's sight, and at her chariot drew
This wondrous creature to so steep a height,
That all the world she might command with sleight
Of her gay wings: and then she bade her haste,—
Since Hero had dissembled, and disgrac'd
Her rites so much,—and every breast infect
With her deceits; she made her architect
Of all dissimulation, and since then
Never was any trust in maids nor men.
O it spighted
Fair Venus' heart to see her-most-delighted,
And one she choos'd for temper of her mind,
To be the only ruler of her kind,
So soon to let her virgin race be ended. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad (1821)

“ Enjoin'd by Venus; who with rosy whips
Beat the kind bird. Fierce lightning from her eyes
Did set on fire fair Hero's sacrifice,
(Which was her torn robe, and inforced hair;)
And the bright flame became a maid most fair
For her aspèct: her tresses were of wire,
Knit like a net, where hearts, set all on fire,
Struggled in pants, and could not get releas'd:
Her arms were all with golden pincers dress'd,
And twenty fashion'd knots, pullies, and brakes,
And all her body girt with painted snakes. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad (1821)

“ T' enrich their houses; for the continent
Of the strange virtues all approv'd it held:
For even the very look of it repell'd
All blastings, witchcrafts, and the strifes of nature
In those diseases that no herbs could cure:
The wolfy sting of Avarice it would pull,
And make the rankest miser bountiful. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad (1821)

“ The goddess Ecte, that had ever been
Hid in a wat'ry cloud near Hero's cries,
Since the first instant of her broken eyes,
Gave bright Leucote voice, and made her speak,
To ease her anguish, whose swoln breast did break
With anger at her Goddess, that did touch
Hero so near for that she [13] us'd so much.
And thrusting her white neck at Venus, said—
"Why may not amorous Hero seem a maid
Though she be none, as well as you suppress
In modest cheeks your inward wantonness?
How often have we drawn you from above,
T' exchange with mortals rites for rites in love? ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad (1821)

“ And oft would shriek so, that her guardian, frighted,
Would staring haste, as with some mischief cited.
They double life that dead things' grief sustain:
They kill that feel not their friends' living pain. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad (1821)

“ Which figur'd her affects [2] in their extremes,
Pursuing nature in her Cynthian body,
And did her thoughts running on change imply;
For maids take more delights, when they prepare,
And think of wives' states, than when wives they are. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fourth Sestyad (1821)

“ And with her stamp thou count'nances must coin:
Coyness, and pure deceits for purities,
And still a maid will seem in cozen'd eyes,
And have an antic face to laugh within,
While thy smooth looks make men digest thy sin.
But since thy lips, (least thought forsworn,) forswore,
Be never virgin's vow worth [11] trusting more."
When Beauty's dearest did her Goddess hear,
Breathe such rebukes 'gainst that she could not clear ”

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