| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XV. You that do search for every purling spring | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | 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 dictionary’s method bring | 5 |
| Into your rhymes running in rattling rows; | |
| You that poor PETRARCH’s 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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