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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Chloris

Sonnet XLVIII. You that embrace enchanting Poesy

William Smith (fl. 1596)

YOU that embrace enchanting Poesy,

Be gracious to perplexèd CORIN’s lines!

You that do feel Love’s proud authority,

Help me to sing my sighs and sad designs!

CHLORIS, requite not faithful love with scorn!

But, as thou oughtest, have commiseration.

I have enough anatomized and torn

My heart, thereof to make a pure oblation.

Likewise consider how thy CORIN prizeth

Thy parts above each absolute perfection!

How he, of every precious thing deviseth,

To make thee Sovereign! Grant me then affection!

Else thus I prize thee, CHLORIS is alone

More hard than gold, or pearl, or precious stone.