The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton For the First Time Collected and Edited: With Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Glossarial Index, Facsimilies, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In Two Volumes |
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A Sonnet.
Those eyes that hold the hand of euerie heart,
That hand that holds the heart of euerie eye,
That wit that goes beyond all Natures art,
The sence too deepe for wisdome to discrie.
That eye, that hand, that wit, that heauenlie sence,
Doth shew my onely Mistresse excellence.
That hand that holds the heart of euerie eye,
That wit that goes beyond all Natures art,
The sence too deepe for wisdome to discrie.
That eye, that hand, that wit, that heauenlie sence,
Doth shew my onely Mistresse excellence.
Oh eyes that pearce into the purest heart,
Oh hands that hold the highest thoughts in thrall,
Oh wit that weyes the depth of all desart,
Oh sence that shewe the secret sweet of all.
The heauen of heauens with heauenlie power preserue thee,
Loue but thy selfe, and giue me leaue to serue thee.
Oh hands that hold the highest thoughts in thrall,
Oh wit that weyes the depth of all desart,
Oh sence that shewe the secret sweet of all.
The heauen of heauens with heauenlie power preserue thee,
Loue but thy selfe, and giue me leaue to serue thee.
To serue, to liue to looke vpon those eyes,
To looke, to liue to kisse that heauenly hand,
To sound that wit that doth amaze the minde,
To know that sence, no sence can vnderstand,
To vnderstand that all the world may know,
Such wit, such sence, eyes, hands, there are no moe.
To looke, to liue to kisse that heauenly hand,
To sound that wit that doth amaze the minde,
To know that sence, no sence can vnderstand,
To vnderstand that all the world may know,
Such wit, such sence, eyes, hands, there are no moe.
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