Summary

Venus watches Adonis leave and succumbs to despair. She cries out and sobs, singing a song about lost love. A lark comes, and Venus wishes him a good morning. She goes to a myrtle grove to look for Adonis, but does not find him.

Then she hears the sounds of hounds baying, which frightens her. It is Adonis, going after a boar. She sees a boar, his mouth covered in red, and finds one of Adonis’s hounds. She asks it where he is, but the hound just howls. Soon, all of the hounds are crying out.

Soon she recognizes what this might mean: Adonis has been killed by the boar. She chides death for separating her from her love. She says that death would never have killed him if it knew how beautiful he was. She starts to weep, devastated. Then she hopes...