Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | Astrophel and Stella | XV. You that do search for every purling spring | Sir Philip Sidney (15541586) |
| YOU that do search for every purling spring | |
Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flows; | |
And every flower, not sweet perhaps, which grows | |
Near thereabouts, into your poesy wring: | |
You that do dictionarys method bring | 5 |
Into your rhymes running in rattling rows; | |
You that poor PETRARCHs long deceasèd woes, | |
With newborn sighs and denizened wit do sing: | |
You take wrong ways! Those far-fet helps be such | |
As do bewray a want of inward touch; | 10 |
And sure at length, stolen goods do come to light. | |
But if (both for your love and skill) your name | |
You seek to nurse at fullest breasts of Fame: | |
STELLA behold! and then begin to endite. | | | |
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