Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
CliaSonnet XI. Of all the women which of yore have been
William Percy (15751648)To POLYXENA.
O
A
For courage, T
For all in one, P
If true it be, by old philosophy,
These souls to have, since destin, entered
To other bodies of like sympathy;
Thou art the last of these metampsychosed!
Thy courage wondrous! thy virtues peerless!
Thy features have the fairest ladies blamed!
Then (if thou scorn’st not such a Monarchess)
Henceforth, by reason good, thou shalt be named,
Nor T
Thou shalt be named my dear P