| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XXX. Whether the Turkish new moon minded be | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | WHETHER the Turkish new moon minded be | |
| To fill his horns this year on Christian coast? | |
| How Poles’ right King means, without leave of host, | |
| To warm with ill-made fire, cold Muscovy? | |
| If French can yet three parts in one agree? | 5 |
| What now the Dutch in their full diets boast? | |
| How Holland’s hearts—now so good towns be lost— | |
| Trust in the shade of pleasing Orange tree? | |
| How Ulster likes of that same golden bit, | |
| Wherewith my father once made it half tame? | 10 |
| If in the Scotch Court be no welt’ring yet? | |
| These questions, busy wits to me do frame: | |
| I—cumbered with good manners—answer do; | |
| But know not how, for still I think on you. | | | | |
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