Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Astrophel and StellaLXXI. Who will in fairest book of Nature know
Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)W
How virtue may best lodged in beauty be;
Let him but learn of love to read in thee!
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There, shall he find all vices’ overthrow;
Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty
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That inward sun in thine eyes shineth so.
And not content to be perfection’s heir,
Thyself dost strive all minds that way to move;
Who mark in thee, what is in thee most fair:
So while thy beauty draws the heart to love,
As fast thy virtue bends that love to good.
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