| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XI. In Truth, O Love! with what a boyish kind | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | IN Truth, O LOVE! with what a boyish kind | |
| Thou dost proceed in thy most serious ways; | |
| That when the heaven to thee his best displays, | |
| Yet of that best, thou leav’st the best behind: | |
| For like a child, that some fair book doth find, | 5 |
| With gilded leaves or coloured vellum plays; | |
| Or, at the most, on some fair picture stays: | |
| But never heeds the fruit of writer’s mind. | |
| So when thou saw’st in Nature’s cabinet, | |
| STELLA: thou straight look’st babies in her eyes; | 10 |
| In her cheek’s pit, thou didst thy pitfold set; | |
| And in her breast, bo-peep or couching lies: | |
| Playing and shining in each outward part. | |
| But, fool! seek’st not to get into her heart! | | | | |
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