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and fulfilled by dropping a huge stone on the machine and thus scattering its occupants, "the litter of English pigs" these, and her "love-shafts", which, as Salisbury said, "pierce to the heart", are among the most wonderful of historical fairy tales. In the end the English had to raise the siege: "Came I early, came I late, I found Agnes at the gate",
A wondrous spell of gramarye like Kohl bedecks his eyne, * And shows thee bow with shaft on string make ready ere it flies: O thou, to whom I told my case expecting all excuse, * Pity a lover-wight for whom Love-shafts such fate devise!
Over all hovers a cupid who is sending love-shafts into the hearts of all in springtime. Notice the lacy effect of the flowers that bestar the wind-blown gown of "La Primavera," the fern-like leaves that fleck the background; the draperies that do not conceal the forms of the nymphs of the lovely springtime.
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