A Key to "The Awaited Agony: Beauty and the Beast - A Gothic Etymology -Part III – The Feast for Beauty"

* To crush a wine – Inviting a fight

* Valiant - [val-yuh nt] –
a) Boldly courageous; brave; stout-hearted: a valiant soldier.
b) Marked by or showing bravery or valor; heroic: to make a valiant effort.
c) Worthy; excellent.

* Writ – [rit] -
a) Law - a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act.
b) (In early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
c) Something written; a writing: sacred writ.

* Midget – (Bears no offense to anybody) [mij-it]

a) (Not in technical use) an extremely small person having normal physical proportions.
b) Any animal or thing that is very small for its kind.

* Braise - [breyz] - to cook (meat, fish, or vegetables) by sautéeing in fat and then simmering slowly in very little liquid.

* Bite a thumb – An Insult

* Frayed – {Fray} (v) worn at the edge, show effects of strain (n) A battle or a fight

* Frantic - [fran-tik] –
a) Desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
b) Insane; mad.

* Succumb - [suh-kuhm]
a) To give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
b) To yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die.

* Swan a Crown – to be loved and to be hated.

* Thither - [thith -er, th ith -] - Towards

* Howl - [houl] - adverb (used without object) to utter a loud, prolonged, mournful cry, as that of a dog or wolf.

* Weeping stouts burnt a whisker’s Carriage – Two fat things burning a cat’s carriage.

* Rapier - [rey-pee-er] -
a) A small sword, especially of the 18th century, having a narrow blade and used for thrusting.
b) A longer, heavier sword, especially of the 16th and 17th centuries, having a double-edged blade and used for slashing and thrusting.

*Amble - [am-buh l]
a) To go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter: He ambled around the town.
b) (Of a horse) to go at a slow pace with the legs moving in lateral pairs and usually having a four-beat rhythm.

The Awaited Agony: Beauty and the Beast - A Gothic Etymology -Part III – The Feast for Beauty

The wax melts to crush a wine*,
His beauty in a valiant* daze…
Her delight writ* a giggle mime,
The midget* unfolds a braise*…

In valiant wits or so her pride,
Beauty frowns to bite a thumb*…
The beast frayed* as her tulips cried,
A cobweb whispered to a frantic* succumb*…

“A recluse is he?” panted Beauty,
“How could him swan a crown*???
Go thither* for his selfless pity,
You’d suffer prey to a woven howl*…”

The Midget anguished beauty’s Disparage,
An ambient liaise mellowed loud…
Weeping stouts burnt a whisker’s carriage*,
Asleep was that farmer’s hound…

The Midget:
“In this Braise blooms his blood,
A rapier* to a woven steed…
Of reckoning, yet a Shrub,
An amble* path of glee…. “

(Ps: This poem was inspired by William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and a key is also mentioned)