The Argument of the Second Sestyað. Hero of love takes deeper sense, And doth her love more recompense: Their first night's meeting, where sweet kisses · He swims to' Abydos and returns : HERO AND LEANDER. THE SECOND SESTYAD. By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted, To linger by the way, and once she stay'd, He, being a novice, knew not what she meant, Which joyful Hero answer'd in such sort, Look how their hands, so were their hearts united, (Sweet are the kisses, the embracements sweet, *From the French verb peser. The mirthful god of amorous pleasure smil'd And kept it down that it might mount the higher.- And, like light Salmacis, her body throws To slake his anger, if he were displeas'd: And wanting organs to advance a step, Mov'd by Love's force, unto each other leap? Some hidden influence breeds like effect. Long dallying with Hero, nothing saw |