| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet XVI. “Grant, fairest kind, a kiss unto thy friend!” | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | “GRANT, fairest kind, a kiss unto thy friend!” | |
| A blush replied; and yet a kiss I had. | |
| It is not heaven that can such nectar send; | |
| Whereat my senses, all amazed, were glad. | |
| This done, She fled as one that was afraid; | 5 |
| And I desired to kiss, by kissing more. | |
| My Love, she frowned; and I my kissing stayed: | |
| Yet wished to kiss her as I did before. | |
| Then as the vine, the propping elm doth clasp, | |
| Loth to depart, till both together die; | 10 |
| So fold me, Sweet; until my latest gasp! | |
| That in thy arms, to death I kissed, may lie. | |
| Thus whilst I live, for kisses I must call: | |
| Still kiss me, Sweet, or kiss me not at all! | | | | |
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