Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Astrophel and StellaLXXIII. Love still a boy, and oft a wanton is
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)L
Schooled only by his mother’s tender eye.
What wonder then, if he his lesson miss;
When for so soft a rod, dear play he try?
And yet my Star, because a sugared kiss
In sport I suckt, while she asleep did lie:
Doth lower; nay, chide; nay, threat for only this!
“Sweet! It was saucy L
But no ’scuse serves; she makes her wrath appear
In Beauty’s throne. See now! who dares come near
Those scarlet judges, threat’ning bloody pain?
O heavenly fool! Thy most kiss-worthy face,
Anger invests with such a lovely grace;
That A