| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XLIX. I, on my horse; and Love on me, doth try | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | I, ON my horse; and LOVE on me, doth try | |
| Our horsemanships: while by strange work I prove | |
| A horseman to my horse, a horse to LOVE; | |
| And now man’s wrongs in me poor beast! descry. | |
| The reins wherewith my rider doth me tie | 5 |
| Are Humbled Thoughts, which bit of Reverence move; | |
| Curbed in with Fear, but with gilt boss above | |
| Of Hope, which makes it seem fair to the eye. | |
| The wand is Will, thou Fancy saddle art, | |
| Girt fast by Memory; and while I spur | 10 |
| My horse, he spurs with Sharp Desire my heart. | |
| He sits me fast, however I do stir; | |
| And now hath made me to his hand so right, | |
| That in the menage myself takes delight. | | | | |
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