:53:02
whatsoe'er they be.
:53:10
Who have we here?
:53:13
Rome's royal empress,
:53:14
unfurnished of her
well-beseeming troop?
:53:17
Or is it Dian, habited like her,
:53:21
who hath abandoned her holy groves
:53:23
to see the general hunting
in this forest?
:53:26
Saucy controller of
our private steps!
:53:29
Had I the power
some say Dian had,
:53:31
thy temples should be
planted presently with horns,
:53:34
as was Actaeon's.
:53:35
And the hounds should drive upon
:53:37
thy new-transformed limbs,
:53:39
unmannerly intruder as thou art!
:53:42
Under your patience,
gentle Empress.
:53:44
'Tis thought you have
a goodly gift in horning
:53:46
and to be doubted
that your Moor and you
:53:49
are singled forth
to try experiments.
:53:52
Jove shield your husband
from his hounds today!
:53:55
'Tis pity they should
take him for a stag.
:53:58
Why are you sequestered
from all your train,
:54:01
dismounted from
your snow-white, goodly steed,
:54:04
and wandered hither to an obscure plot
:54:06
accompanied but with a barbarous Moor
:54:08
if foul desire
had not conducted you?
:54:11
And, being intercepted in your sport,
:54:14
great reason that my noble lord
:54:16
be rated for sauciness.
:54:19
I pray you, let us hence,
:54:22
and let her 'joy
her raven-colored love.
:54:24
This valley fits
the purpose passing well.
:54:28
The king my brother
shall have notice of this.
:54:31
Good king, to be so mightily abused!
:54:37
Why have I patience
to endure all this?
:54:41
Yah!
:54:43
Aah!
:54:45
How now, dear sovereign
and our gracious mother!
:54:48
Why doth Your Highness
look so pale and wan?
:54:51
Have I not reason,
think you, to look pale?
:54:55
These two have 'ticed me
hither to this place--
:54:58
a barren, detested vale,
you see it is.