Page:The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems.djvu/584

554

Maddalo. No access to the Duke! You have not said That the Count Maddalo would speak with him? Pigna. Did you inform his Grace that Signor Pigna Waits with state papers for his signature? Malpiglio. The Lady Leonora cannot know That I have written a sonnet to her fame, In which IVenus and Adonis. You should not take my gold and serve me not. Albano. In truth I told her, and she smiled and said, 'If I am Venus, thou, coy Poesy, Art the Adonis whom I love, and he The Erymanthian boar that wounded him,' O trust to me, Signor Malpiglio, Those nods and smiles were favours worth the zechin. Malpiglio. The words are twisted in some double sense That I reach not: the smiles fell not on me. Pigna. How are the Duke and Duchess occupied? Albano. Buried in some strange talk. The Duke was leaning, His finger on his brow, his lips unclosed. The Princess sate within the window-seat, And so her face was hid; but on her knee