Astrophil and Stella
Sonnet 28
You that with allegory's curious frame
Of others' children changelings use to make,
With me those pains, for God's sake, do not take:
I list not dig so deep for brazen fame,
When I say Stella I do mean the same
Princess of beauty for whose only sake
The rains of love I love, though never slake,
And joy therein, though nations count it shame.
I beg no subject to use eloquence,
Nor in hid ways to guide philosophy:
Look at my hands for no such quintessence;
But know that I in pure simplicity
Breath out the flames which burn within my heart,
Love only reading unto me this art.
Sir Philip Sidney
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