An extended metaphor in this poem states that a woman being seduced must “defend the fort,” even though “in such wars women use but half their strength.” A woman in this poem who is called “Venus’s nun” states, “Were I the saint he worships, I would hear him” upon meeting her lover while sacrificing turtledoves at a temple. This poem draws from Byzantine poet Musaeus (“mew-ZAY-uss”) Grammaticus and is dedicated to Thomas Walsingham. In As You Like It, Phebe (“FEE-bee”) calls this poem’s author a “dead shepherd” and quotes the last line of its stanza that opens, “It lies not in our power to love or hate.” George Chapman completed this poem, which asks, “Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?” and is set in Abydos (“uh-BYE-doss”) and Sestos, cities across a body of water that is “guilty of true love’s blood.” For 10 points, name this Christopher Marlowe poem about lovers separated by the Hellespont. ■END■
ANSWER: Hero and Leander
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