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chastelard-第14部分
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CHASTELARD。
Why; there it lies; torn up。
QUEEN。
God help me; sir!
Have you done this?
CHASTELARD。
Yea; sweet; what should I do?
Did I not know you to the bone; my sweet?
God speed you well! you have a goodly lord。
QUEEN。
My love; sweet love; you are more fair than he;
Yea; fairer many times: I love you much;
Sir; know you that。
CHASTELARD。
I think I know that well。
Sit here a little till I feel you through
In all my breath and blood for some sweet while。
O gracious body that mine arms have had;
And hair my face has felt on it! grave eyes
And low thick lids that keep since years agone
In the blue sweet of each particular vein
Some special print of me! I am right glad
That I must never feel a bitterer thing
Than your soft curled…up shoulder and amorous arms
From this time forth; nothing can hap to me
Less good than this for all my whole life through。
I would not have some new pain after this
Come spoil the savor。 O; your round bird's throat;
More soft than sleep or singing; your calm cheeks;
Turned bright; turned wan with kisses hard and hot;
The beautiful color of your deep curved hands;
Made of a red rose that had changed to white;
That mouth mine own holds half the sweetness of;
Yea; my heart holds the sweetness of it; whence
My life began in me; mine that ends here
Because you have no mercy; nay you know
You never could have mercy。 My fair love;
Kiss me again; God loves you not the less;
Why should one woman have all goodly things?
You have all beauty; let mean women's lips
Be pitiful; and speak truth: they will not be
Such perfect things as yours。 Be not ashamed
That hands not made like these that snare men's souls
Should do men good; give alms; relieve men's pain;
You have the better; being more fair than they;
They are half foul; being rather good than fair;
You are quite fair: to be quite fair is best。
Why; two nights hence I dreamed that I could see
In through your bosom under the left flower;
And there was a round hollow; and at heart
A little red snake sitting; without spot;
That bitlike this; and sucked up sweetlike this;
And curled its lithe light body right and left;
And quivered like a woman in act to love。
Then there was some low fluttered talk i' the lips;
Faint sound of soft fierce words caressing them
Like a fair woman's when her love gets way。
Ah; your old kissI know the ways of it:
Let the lips cling a little。 Take them off;
And speak some word or I go mad with love。
QUEEN。
Will you not have my chaplain come to you?
CHASTELARD。
Some better thing of yourssome handkerchief;
Some fringe of scarf to make confession to
You had some book about you that fell out
QUEEN。
A little written book of Ronsard's rhymes;
His gift; I wear in there for love of him
See; here between our feet。
CHASTELARD。
Ay; my old lord's
The sweet chief poet; my dear friend long since?
Give me the book。 Lo you; this verse of his:
With coming lilies in late April came
Her body; fashioned whiter for their shame;
And roses; touched with blood since Adon bled;
From her fair color filled their lips with red:
A goodly praise: I could not praise you so。
I read that while your marriage…feast went on。
Leave me this book; I pray you: I would read
The hymn of death here over ere I die;
I shall know soon how much he knew of death
When that was written。 One thing I know now;
I shall not die with half a heart at least;
Nor shift my face; nor weep my fault alive;
Nor swear if I might live and do new deeds
I would do better。 Let me keep the book。
QUEEN。
Yea; keep it: as would God you had kept your life
Out of mine eyes and hands。 I am wrong to the heart:
This hour feels dry and bitter in my mouth;
As if its sorrow were my body's food
More than my soul's。 There are bad thoughts in me
Most bitter fancies biting me like birds
That tear each other。 Suppose you need not die?
CHASTELARD。
You know I cannot live for two hours more。
Our fate was made thus ere our days were made:
Will you fight fortune for so small a grief?
But for one thing I were full fain of death。
QUEEN。
What thing is that?
CHASTELARD。
No need to name the thing。
Why; what can death do with me fit to fear?
For if I sleep I shall not weep awake;
Or if their saying be true of things to come;
Though hell be sharp; in the worst ache of it
I shall be eased so God will give me back
Sometimes one golden gracious sight of you
The aureole woven flowerlike through your hair;
And in your lips the little laugh as red
As when it came upon a kiss and ceased;
Touching my mouth。
QUEEN。
As I do now; this way;
With my heart after: would I could shed tears;
Tears should not fail when the heart shudders so。
But your bad thought?
CHASTELARD。
Well; such a thought as this:
It may be; long time after I am dead;
For all you are; you may see bitter days;
God may forget you or be wroth with you:
Then shall you lack a little help of me;
And I shall feel your sorrow touching you;
A happy sorrow; though I may not touch:
I that would fain be turned to flesh again;
Fain get back life to give up life for you;
To shed my blood for help; that long ago
You shed and were not holpen: and your heart
Will ache for help and comfort; yea for love;
And find less love than minefor I do think
You never will be loved thus in your life。
QUEEN。
It may be man will never love me more;
For I am sure I shall not love man twice。
CHASTELARD。
I know not: men must love you in life's spite;
For you will always kill them; man by man
Your lips will bite them dead; yea; though you would;
You shall not spare one; all will die of you;
I cannot tell what love shall do with these;
But I for all my love shall have no might
To help you more; mine arms and hands no power
To fasten on you more。 This cleaves my heart;
That they shall never touch your body more。
But for your griefyou will not have to grieve;
For being in such poor eyes so beautiful
It must needs be as God is more than I
So much more love he hath of you than mine;
Yea; God shall not be bitter with my love;
Seeing she is so sweet。
QUEEN。
Ah my sweet fool;
Think you when God will ruin me for sin
My face of color shall prevail so much
With him; so soften the toothed iron's edge
To save my throat a scar? nay; I am sure
I shall die somehow sadly。
CHASTELARD。
This is pure grief;
The shadow of your pity for my death;
Mere foolishness of pity: all sweet moods
Throw out such little shadows of themselves;
Leave such light fears behind。 You; die like me?
Stretch your throat out that I may kiss all round
Where mine shall be cut through: suppose my mouth
The axe…edge to bite so sweet a throat in twain
With bitter iron; should not it turn soft
As lip is soft to lip?
QUEEN。
I am quite sure
I shall die sadly some day; Chastelard;
I am quite certain。
CHASTELARD。
Do not think such things;
Lest all my next world's memories of you be
As heavy as this thought。
QUEEN。
I will not grieve you;
Forgive me that my thoughts were sick with grief。
What can I do to give you ease at heart?
Shall I kiss now? I pray you have no fear
But that I love you。
CHASTELARD。
Turn your face to me;
I do not grudge your face this death of mine;
It is too fairby God; you are too fair。
What noise is that?
QUEEN。
Can the hour be through so soon?
I bade them give me but a little hour。
Ah! I do love you! such brief space for love!
I am yours all through; do all your will with me;
What if we lay and let them take us fast;
Lips grasping lips? I dare do anything。
CHASTELARD。
Show better cheer: let no man see you mazed;
Make haste and kiss me; cover up your throat
Lest one see tumbled lace and prate of it。
'Enter the Guard: MURRAY; DARNLEY; MARY
HAMILTON; MARY BEATON; and others with
them。'
DARNLEY。
Sirs; do your charge; let him not have much time。
MARY HAMILTON。
Peace; lest you chafe the queen: look; her brows bend。
CHASTELARD。
Lords; and all you come hither for my sake;
If while my life was with me like a friend
That I must now forget the friendship of;
I have done a wrong to any man of you;
As it may be by fault of mine I have;
Of such an one I crave for courtesy
He will now cast it from his mind and heed
Like a dead thing; considering my dead fault
Worth no remembrance further than my death。
This for his gentle honor and goodwill
I do beseech him; doubting not to find
Such kindliness if he be nobly made
And of his birth a courteous race of man。
You; my Lord James; if you have aught toward me
Or you; Lord DarnleyI dare fear no jot;
Whate'er this be wherein you were aggrieved;
But you will pardon all for gentleness。
DARNLEY。
For my partyea; well; if the thing stand thus;
As you must dieone would not bear folk hard
And if the rest shall hold it honorable;
Why; I do pardon you。
MURRAY。
Sir; in all things
We find no cause to speak of you but well:
For all I see; save this your deadly fault;
I hold you for a noble perfect man。
CHASTELARD。
I thank you; fair lord; for your nobleness。
You likewise; for the courtesy you have
I give you thanks; sir; and to all these lords
That have not heart to load me at my death。
Last; I beseech of the best queen of men
And royallest fair lady in the world
To pardon me my grievous mortal sin
Done in such great offence of her: for; sirs;
If ever since I came between her eyes
She hath beheld me other than I am
Or shown her honor other than it is;
Or; save in royal faultless courtesies;
Used me with favor; if by speech or face;
By salutation or by tender eyes;
She hath made a way for my desire to live;
Given ear to me or boldness to my breath
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