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## Overview
This section, titled "II. 187—210," is an extracted textual segment from the larger work [VENVS AND ADONIS.](arke:01KG6S4EKY2NN9C1PGK59TDRWY). It spans lines 1698 to 1731 of its source file and was extracted on January 30, 2026.
## Context
The section is part of the chapter [VENVS AND ADONIS.](arke:01KG6S4EKY2NN9C1PGK59TDRWY), which is itself contained within the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. It was extracted from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). This section follows [II. 163—186](arke:01KG6S5HRJGXQP34E3FPDGW0P6) and precedes [II. 211—234](arke:01KG6S5HRJYJ5ZTCKHSX8RPWM6), indicating its sequential position within the larger poetic work.
## Contents
The content of this section continues the narrative of "Venus and Adonis." It features Venus's impassioned pleas to Adonis, describing her frustration with his "liueleffe picture, cold, and fenceleffe stone" demeanor. The text details her emotional state, marked by "impatience chokes her pleading tongue," "swelling passion," "Red cheeks, and fierie eyes," and weeping. She attempts to embrace Adonis, who struggles to be free, leading her to "lock her little fingers one in one." Venus then metaphorically offers herself as a "parke" for Adonis, inviting him to "Graze on my lips, and if those hills be drie, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountaines lie." The passage highlights themes of unrequited love, desire, and the physical and emotional pursuit of Adonis by Venus.
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# VENVS AND ADONIS.
Fie, liueleffe picture, cold, and fenceleffe stone,
VVell painted idoll, image dull, and dead,
Statue contenting but the eye alone,
Thing like a man, but of no woman bred:
Thou art no man, though of a mans complexion,
For men will kiffe euen by their owne direction.
This said, impatience chokes her pleading tongue,
And swelling passion doth provoke a pause,
Red cheeks, and fierie eyes blaze forth her wrong:
Being Judge in love, she cannot right her cause.
And now she weeps, & now she faine would speak
And now her fobs do her intendments break.
Sometime she shakes her head, and then his hand,
Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground;
Sometime her armes infold him like a band,
She would, he will not in her armes be bound:
And when from thence he struggles to be gone,
She locks her little fingers one in one.
Fondling, she faith, since I have hemd thee here
VVithin the circuit of this inorie pale,
Ile be a parke, and thou shalt be my dearer
Feed where thou wilt, on mountaine, or in dale;
Graze on my lips, and if those hills be drie,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountaines lie.
VVithin
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