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Certaine Sonnets, adioyned to the amorous Poeme of Dom Diego and Gineura
  
  

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Sonnet XXII.
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 XXXII. 
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 XXXIIII. 
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Sonnet XXII.

[Looke as a Bird, through sweetnes of the call]

Looke as a Bird, through sweetnes of the call
doth cleane forget the fowlers guilefull trap;
Or one that gazing on the starres doth fall
in some deepe pit bewayling his mishap;
So wretched I, whilst with Lynceus eyes,
I greedily beheld her Angels face,
VVas straight intangled with such subtilties,
as euer since I liue in wofull case;
Her checkes were Roses, layd in christall glasse,
her breastes two aples of Hesperides,
Her voyce more sweete then famous Thamiras,
reuiuing death with dorique mellodies:
I harkning so to this attractiue call,
VVas caught, and euer since haue liu'd in thrall.