Thomas Copeland
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muses i oft invok'd your holy aid with choicest flowers my speech to engarden so that it despis'd in true but naked show might win some grace in your sweet grace array'd and oft whole troops of saddest words i stay'd striving abroad a-foraging to go until by your inspiring i might know how their black banner might be best display'd
but now i mean no more your help to try nor other sugaring of my speech to prove but on her name incessantly to cry for let me but name her whom i do love so sweet sound straight mine ear and heart do hit that i well find no eloquence like it
fifty six fie school of patience fie your lesson is far far too long to learn it without book what a whole week without one piece of look and think i should not your large precepts miss
when i might read those letters fair of bliss which in her face teach virtue i could brook somewhat thy leaden counsels which i took as of a friend that meant not much amiss but now that i alas do want her sight what dost thou think that i can ever take in thy cold stuff a phlegmatic delight no patience if thou wilt my good then make her come and hear with patience my desire
and then with patience bid me bear my fire.
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woe having made with many fights his own each sense of mine each gift each power of mine grown now his slaves he forced them out to find the thoroughest words fit for woe's self to groan hoping that when they might find stella alone before she could prepare to be unkind her soul armed but with such a dainty rind should soon be pierced with sharpness of the moan
She heard my plaints, and did not only hear, but them, so sweet as she, most sweetly sing, with that fair breast making woe's darkness clear.
a pretty case i hoped her to bring to feel my griefs and she with face and voice so sweets my pains that my pains me rejoice fifty eight a doubt there hath been when with his golden chain the orator so far men's hearts doth bind that no pace else their guided steps can find but as he them more short or slack doth reign
whether with words this sovereignty he gain clothed with fine tropes with strongest reasons lined or else pronouncing grace wherewith his mind prints his own lively form in rudest brain now judge by this in piercing phrases late the anatomy of all my woes i rate stella's sweet breath the same to me did read
o voice o face moger my speeches might which wooed woe most ravishing delight even those sad words even in sad me did breed fifty nine
dear why make you more of a dog than me if he do love i burn i burn in love if he wait well i never thence would move if he be fair yet but a dog can be little he is so little worth is he he barks my song's thine own voice oft doth prove bidden perhaps he fetcheth thee a glove but i unbid fetch even my soul to thee
yet while i languish him that bosom clips that lap doth lap nay lets in spite of spite this sour breath make taste of those sugared lips alas if you grant only such delight to witless things then love i hope since wit becomes a clog will soon ease me a bit sixty
when my good angel guides me to the place where all my good i do in stella see that heaven of joys throws only down on me thundered disdains and lightnings of disgrace but when the rugged step of fortune's race makes me fall from her sight then sweetly she with words wherein the muse's treasures be shows love and pity to my absent case
Now I, wit-beaten long by hardest fate, so dull am, that I cannot look into the ground of this fierce love and lovely hate.
Then some good body, tell me how I do, whose presence, absence, absence, presence is, blissed in my curse, and cursed in my bliss.
End of Poems 31-60
Section 3 of Astrophel and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney.
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