Being entered, and the bed with all thinges sett, Vpon the side thereof a while they sitt. when left alone, they talke and toy & smile, She, whilst she canne, the tyme seeks to beguile, till sudingly her cheekes are all bewept, to loose so soone what she so long hath kept; & oft she castes her eyes vpon the place where she is to wrastle; and she highdes her face. He with such gentle force compells the Lasse, as would not breake her, were she made of glasse, so loth he is to hurt her; yet he throwghs her softly downe, and to her side he growes. Venus begins to teach them a new trade, The marrage quene here playes the chamber-maide: Juno her-selfe, whose new affections growne, and there attends to teach them Marse vnknowne, the whilst he seekes for babyes in her eyes, feeles her white neck, & ivery breasts that rise Like 2 white snowy hills, and still doth praise all that he feeles or touches; then thus sayes: “O frish and flourishing Virgin now in brid, and are you growne at length so near my side; of all my hopes the storehouse and the treasure, my long-expected, now my greatest pleasure; my sweet & dearest loue, this could not be nor happen thus, but by the gods decree; & will [you] now the power of loue withstande?” at this she turnes, & stayes his forward hand, trembling to think of that which was to ensue, or proue the thinge which yet she neuer knew; twixt hope and fear she thus replyes: “O faire and louely youth, list t’ a Virgins prayre! of the ingrate, by those which gaue the such, thy parents bee, I only beg thus much: pitty my tears, put me to noe affright, I only craue repriue but for this night” with [that] she seemes intraunst, and prostrate lyes, hath not one word to vtter more, nor eyes to see herselfe vnvirgeyned, winkes, lyes still, & since be needes must, letts him act his will: betwixt them too, they quench loues amorrous fires, she what she feares, he what he long desires.
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