William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Phillis KnottingSir Charles Sedley (16391701)
‘H
Their feathered mates salute?
They tell their passion in their words:
Must I alone be mute?’
Phillis, without frown or smile,
Sat and knotted all the while.
Does like a tyrant reign;
But in thy heart a child he lies
Without his dart or flame.’
Phillis, without frown or smile,
Sat and knotted all the while.
And yet in raging love,
Might well deserve one word at last
My passion should approve.’
Phillis, without frown or smile,
Sat and knotted all the while.
And not one look obtain,
Which he to soothe his fond desire
Might pleasingly explain?’
Phillis, without frown or smile,
Sat and knotted all the while!