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An excellent Sonnet of a Nimph.
Vertue
, beauty, and speach, did strike, wound, charme,
My hart, eyes, eares, with wonder, loue, delight:
First, second, last, did binde, enforce, and arme,
His works, showes, sutes, with wit, grace, and vowes-might.
My hart, eyes, eares, with wonder, loue, delight:
First, second, last, did binde, enforce, and arme,
His works, showes, sutes, with wit, grace, and vowes-might.
Thus honour, liking, trust, much, farre, and deepe,
Held, pearst, possest, my iudgement, sence, and will;
Till wrongs, contempt, deceite, did grow steale, creepe,
Bands, fauour, faith, to breake, defile, and kill.
Held, pearst, possest, my iudgement, sence, and will;
Till wrongs, contempt, deceite, did grow steale, creepe,
Bands, fauour, faith, to breake, defile, and kill.
Then greefe, vnkindnes, proofe, tooke, kindled, taught,
Well grounded, noble, due, spite, rage, disdaine:
But ah, alas, (in vaine) my minde sight, thought,
Dooth him, his face, his words, leaue shunne, refraine.
For nothing, time, nor place, can loose, quench, ease:
Mine owne, embraced, sought, knot, fire, disease.
Well grounded, noble, due, spite, rage, disdaine:
But ah, alas, (in vaine) my minde sight, thought,
Dooth him, his face, his words, leaue shunne, refraine.
For nothing, time, nor place, can loose, quench, ease:
Mine owne, embraced, sought, knot, fire, disease.
FINIS.
S. Phil. Sidney.
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