| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XVI. In nature apt to like, when I did see | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | IN nature apt to like, when I did see | |
| Beauties which were of many carats fine; | |
| My boiling sprites did thither soon incline, | |
| And, LOVE! I thought that I was full of thee. | |
| But finding not those restless flames in me, | 5 |
| Which others said did make their souls to pine: | |
| I thought those bahes, of some pin’s hurt did whine; | |
| By my soul judging what love’s pains might be. | |
| But while I thus with this lion played, | |
| Mine eyes (shall I say curst or blest?) beheld | 10 |
| STELLA. Now she is named, need more be said? | |
| In her sight, I a lesson new have spelled. | |
| I now have learned love right; and learned even so, | |
| As who by being poisoned doth poison know. | | | | |
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