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The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney

In Three Volumes

Sidney, Philip (1554-1586)

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I, II.

Volume I, [Volume II]

THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA

POEMS FIRST PRINTED IN THE FOLIO OF 1593.

POEMS FROM THE OLD ARCADIA

Syr P. S. His Astrophel and Stella.

OTHER SONNETS OF VARIABLE VERSE.

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CERTAINE SONETS WRITTEN BY SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: Never before printed.

[Since shunning paine, I ease can never find]

[When Love puft up with rage of hy disdaine]

[The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth]

[The Nightingale as soone as Aprill bringeth]

[Sleepe Babie mine, Desire nurse Beautie singeth]

[O faire, ô sweet, when I do looke on thee]

[The scourge of life, and deaths extreame disgrace]

[You better sure shall live, not evermore]

[Unto no body my woman saith she had rather a wife be]

[Faire seeke not to be feard, most lovely beloved by thy servants]

[Like as the Dove which seeled up doth flie]

[My mistresse lowers and saith I do not love]

[In wonted walkes, since wonted fancies change]

[If I could thinke how these my thoughts to leave]

[Finding those beames, which I must ever love]

The 7. Wonders of England.

[Who hath his fancie pleased]

The smokes of Melancholy.

[When to my deadlie pleasure]

[No, no, no, no, I cannot hate my foe]

[Al my sense thy sweetnesse gained]

[What changes here, ô haire]

[Of this high grace with blisse conjoyn'd]

[Ring out your belles, let mourning shewes be spread]

[Thou blind mans marke, thou fooles selfe chosen snare]

[Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust]

A DIALOGUE BETWEENE TWO SHEPHERDS, utterd in a pastorall shew, at Wilton.

TWO PASTORELS, MADE BY SIR PHILLIP SIDNEY.

[THE LADY OF MAY]

III.

IV.

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[Sweete roote say thou, the roote of my desire]

Sweete roote say thou, the roote of my desire
Was vertue cladde in constant loves attire.