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## Overview
This is a section of text extracted from a PDF file, representing lines 1123-1146 of the poem *Venus and Adonis*. It is of type "section" and was extracted on January 30, 2026.
## Context
This section is part of the chapter "[VENVS AND ADONIS.](arke:01KG6S4EKY2NN9C1PGK59TDRWY)" within a larger poetry collection. The source file is "[pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA)," a text file derived from a PDF. The section is part of the "[PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y)" collection. It is preceded by section "II. 1099—1122" and followed by section "11. 1147—1170".
## Contents
This section contains lines from *Venus and Adonis* that describe the nature of love and its consequences, including war, dissension, and the destruction of love by death. It also depicts Venus's reaction to Adonis's death, where a purple flower springs up from his spilled blood. The text includes stage direction-like notations such as "V" and "H" possibly indicating speakers or characters. A page marker "Page 138" is also included, linking to a specific page in the original PDF.
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# VENYS AND ADONIS.
It shall be sparing, and too full of ryot,
Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures,
The staring rufian shall it keepe in quiet,
Pluck down the rich, in rich the poore with treasures,
It shall be raging mad, and sillie milde,
Make the yoong old, the old become a childe.
It shall suspect where is no cause of seare,
It shall not seare where it should most mistrust,
It shall be merciful, and too seare,
And most deceiving, when it seems most iust;
Peruerse it shall be, where it shows most toward,
Put seare to valour, courage to the coward.
It shall be cause of warre, and dire eisents,
And set dissention twixt the sonne, and fire,
Subiect, and seruill to all discontents:
As drie combustious matter is to fire,
Sith in his prime, death doth my loue destroy,
They that loue best, their loues shall not enioy.
By this the boy that by her side laie kild,
V Vas melted like a vapour from her sight,
And in his blood that on the ground laie spild,
A purple floure sproong vp, checkred with white,
Resembling well his pale cheeks, and the blood,
V V hich in round drops, vpō their whitenesse stood.
H
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