Fidessa more chaste then kinde. By B. Griffin |
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SONNET. XLIII.
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 | Fidessa |  |
SONNET. XLIII.
[Tell me of loue sweete Loue who is thy sire]
Tell me of loue sweete Loue who is thy sire,Of if thou mortall or immortall be:
Some say thou art begotten by Desire,
Nourisht with hope, and fed with fantasie:
Ingendred by a heauenly goddesse eye,
Lurking most sweetely in an Angels face:
Others, that beautie thee doth deifie,
Oh Soueraigne beautie full of power and grace!
But I must be absurd all this denying,
Because the fayrest faire aliue nere knew thee:
Now Cupid comes thy godhead to the trying,
T'was she alone (such is her power) that slew me.
She shall be Loue, and thou a foolish boye,
Whose vertue proues thy power but a toye.
| Fidessa | |