| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XXVI. Though dusty wits dare scorn astrology | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | THOUGH dusty wits dare scorn astrology; | |
| And fools can think those lamps of purest light— | |
| Whose number, ways, greatness, eternity, | |
| Promising wonders; wonder do invite— | |
| To have, for no cause, birthright in the sky; | 5 |
| But for to spangle the black weeds of Night: | |
| Or for some brawl, which in that chamber high, | |
| They should still dance to please a gazer’s sight. | |
| For me, I do Nature unidle know; | |
| And know great causes, great effects procure; | 10 |
| And know those bodies high reign on the low: | |
| And if these rules did fail, proof makes me sure. | |
| Who oft fore-judge my after-following race, | |
| By only those two stars in STELLA’s face. | | | | |
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