
Can someone help me find a modern translation for John Donne’s The Bait?
Can someone help me find a modern translation for John Donne’s The Bait? I can’t find one anywhere, and it would be a huge help! Thanks!
Come live with me, and be my love, = Let’s shackup together babe
And we will some new pleasures prove= All will be hunky dory!
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, = Top class fishing
With silken lines, and silver hooks. = Real quality!
There will the river whispering run = We’ll fish by a warm stream
Warm’d by thy eyes, more than the sun; = Made warm by your presence
And there the ‘enamour’d fish will stay,= The fish will beg to be caught by you
Begging themselves they may betray. = Besotted fish fools.
When thou wilt swim in that live bath,= Swim in the water,you are the catch of the day.
Each fish, which every channel hath, = All fish fools try to spawn with you.
Will amorously to thee swim, = All blindly chase you.
Gladder to catch thee, than thou him.= Keener to catch you than be caught.
If thou, to be so seen, be’st loth, = I am the best babe
By sun or moon, thou dark’nest both, = I fish without light
And if myself have leave to see, = In darkness I take you.
I need not their light having thee.
Let others freeze with angling reeds, = All other anglers are hopeless
And cut their legs with shells and weeds,= and clumsy
Or treacherously poor fish beset, = and use aids to secure a catch.
With strangling snare, or windowy net.
Let coarse bold hands from slimy nest = The common catch
The bedded fish in banks out-wrest; = Is caught by fishing fools
Or curious traitors, sleeve-silk flies, = Their fish easily deceived
Bewitch poor fishes’ wand’ring eyes. = and caught by flying baits.
For thee, thou need’st no such deceit, = But you babe
For thou thyself art thine own bait: = You are already bait
That fish, that is not catch’d thereby, = You are not interested
Alas, is wiser far than I. = So you will not be caught.
But you have caught me!
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