XIII. "Unto nobody," my woman saith, "she had rather a wife be." Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586). Sonnets and Poetical Translations. Seccombe and Arber, comps. 1904. Elizabethan Sonnets

Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Sonnets and Poetical Translations

XIII. “Unto nobody,” my woman saith, “she had rather a wife be”

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)


“UNTO nobody,” my woman saith, “she had rather a wife be
Than to myself; not though JOVE grew a suitor of hers.”
These be her words, but a woman’s words to a love that is eager,
In wind or water’s stream do require to be writ.