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Fidessa

more chaste then kinde. By B. Griffin

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SONNET. XXXVIII.

[Was neuer eye did see my Mistris face]

Was neuer eye did see my Mistris face,
Was neuer eare did heare Fidessaes tongue,
Was neuer mind that once did mind her grace,
That euer thought the trauaile to be long.
When her I see, no creature I behold,
So plainly say these aduocates of loue,
That now doe feare, and now to speake are bold,
Trembling apace, when they resolue to proue.
These strange effects doe shew a hidden power,
(A maiestie all base attempts reprouing)
That glads or daunts as she doth laugh or lower,
Surely some goddesse harbours in their mouing:
Who thus my muse from base attempts hath raised,
Whom thus my muse beyond compare hath praised.