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 Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite,
 Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
  That banish what read more 
 Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite,
 Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
  That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother
   By yielding up thy body to my will,
    Or else he must not only die the death,
     But thy unkindess shall his death draw out
      To ling'ring sufferance. 
 An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
 Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
  A smile within his read more 
 An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
 Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
  A smile within his eyelids plays
   And into words his longing gushes. 
 Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and 
vanity.
 [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de read more 
 Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and 
vanity.
 [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs 
faiblesses et de leur vanite.] 
 Where now I have no one to blush with me,
 To cross their arms and hang their heads with read more 
 Where now I have no one to blush with me,
 To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine,
  To mask their brows and hide their infamy;
   But I alone, alone must sit and pine,
    Seasoning the earth with show'rs of silver brine,
     Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans,
      Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans. 
Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.
Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.
 Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my 
boy; that is the complexion of virtue."  
 Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my 
boy; that is the complexion of virtue." 
 Such a blush
 In the midst of brown was born,
  Like red poppies grown with corn.  
 Such a blush
 In the midst of brown was born,
  Like red poppies grown with corn. 
 From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks,
 Ten thousand little loves and graces spring
  To revel read more 
 From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks,
 Ten thousand little loves and graces spring
  To revel in the roses. 
 I have marked
 A thousand blushing apparitions
  To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
 read more 
 I have marked
 A thousand blushing apparitions
  To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
   In angel whiteness beat away those blushes,
    And in her eye there hath appeared a fire
     To burn the errors that these princes hold
      Against her maiden truth.