Diella Certaine Sonnets, adioyned to the amorous Poeme of Dom Diego and Gineura |
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Sonnet XXX.
[Hee that can count the candles of the skie]
Hee that can count the candles of the skie,reckon the Sands whereon Pactolus flowes,
Or number nomberlesse small Attomie,
what strange, & hideous monsters Nilus showes,
What mishapt Beasts vast Affrica doth yield,
what rare-form'd fishes lyue in th' Ocean,
What colour'd flowers doe grow in Tempes field,
how many houres are since the world began,
Let him, none else, gyue iudgement of my griefe,
let him declare the beauties of my Loue,
And hee will say my paines passe all reliefe.
and hee will iudge her for a Saint aboue;
But as those things ther's no man can vnfolde,
So, nor her faire, nor my griefe may be tolde.
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