Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Astrophel and Stella. Other Songs of Variable VerseSecond Song: Have I caught my heavenly jewel
Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)H
Teaching sleep most fair to be?
Now will I teach her, that she,
When she wakes, is too too cruel.
The two only darts of L
Now will I with that boy prove
Some play, while he is disarmèd.
Giving frankly, niggard “No:”
Now will I attempt to know
What “No” her tongue sleeping, useth.
Sleeping, grants a free resort:
Now will I invade the fort;
Cowards, L
Of her just and high disdain;
Now will I, alas, refrain,
L
Do invite a stealing kiss:
Now will I but venture this,
Who will read must first learn spelling.
Low’ring beauty chastens me:
Now will I away hence flee;
Fool! more fool! for no more taking.