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<Author>Marlowe, Christopher</Author>
<Title>Hero and Leander</Title>
<Edition>The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe. Fredson Bowers, ed. Cambridge, England: The University Press, 1973</Edition>
<Date>1593</Date>
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<l>On hellespont, guilty of truelove's blood,</l>
<l>In view and opposite two cities stood,</l>
<l>Seaborderers, disjoined by neptune's might;</l>
<l>The one abydos, the other sestos hight.</l>
<l>At sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair,</l>
<l>Whom young apollo courted for her hair,</l>
<l>And offered as a dower his burning throne,</l>
<l>Where she should sit for men to gaze upon.</l>
<l>The outside of her garments were of lawn,</l>
<l>The lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn;</l>
<l>Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove,</l>
<l>Where venus in her naked glory strove</l>
<l>To please the careless and disdainful eyes</l>
<l>Of proud adonis, that before her lies.</l>
<l>Her kirtle blue, whereon was . . .
