IX + 

Fair was the morn when the fair queen of love, + 

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Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove, + 

For Adon’s sake, a youngster proud and wild; + 

Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill: + 

Anon Adonis comes with horn and hounds; + 

She, silly queen, with more than love’s good will, + 

Forbade the boy he should not pass those grounds: + 

“Once,” quoth she, “did I see a fair sweet youth + 

Here in these brakes deep wounded with a boar, + 

Deep in the thigh, a spectacle of ruth! + 

See, in my thigh,” quoth she, “here was the sore.” + 

She showed hers: he saw more wounds than one, + 

And blushing fled, and left her all alone. + 