| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XXVIII. You that with allegory’s curious frame | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | YOU that with allegory’s curious frame, | |
| Of others’ children, changelings use to make: | |
| With me, those pains for GOD’s sake do not take. | |
| I list not dig so deep for brazen fame. | |
| When I say STELLA! I do mean the same | 5 |
| Princess of Beauty; for whose only sake | |
| The reins of love I love, though never slack: | |
| And joy therein, though nations count it shame. | |
| I beg no subject to use eloquence, | |
| Nor in hid ways do guide philosophy: | 10 |
| Look at my hands for no such quintessence! | |
| But know! that I, in pure simplicity, | |
| Breathe out the flames which burn within my heart, | |
| Love only reading unto me this art. | | | | |
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