| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Muses That Sing | | By George Chapman (1559?–1634) |
| | | MUSES that sing Love’s sensual empery, | |
| And lovers kindling your enragèd fires | |
| At Cupid’s bonfires burning in the eye, | |
| Blown with the empty breath of vain desires,— | |
| You that prefer the painted cabinet | 5 |
| Before the wealthy jewels it doth store ye, | |
| That all your joys in dying figures set, | |
| And stain the living substance of your glory; | |
| Abjure those joys, abhor their memory, | |
| And let my Love the honoured subject be | 10 |
| Of Love, and honour’s complete history; | |
| Your eyes were never yet let in to see | |
| The majesty and riches of the mind, | |
| But dwell in darkness; for your god is blind. | | | | |
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