| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Cœlia | | Sonnet V. Fair Queen of Cnidos! come, adorn my forehead! | | William Percy (1575–1648) |
| | | FAIR Queen of Cnidos! come, adorn my forehead! | |
| And crown me with the laurel, Emperor! | |
| Ií, thrice sing Ií about thy poet! | |
| Lo, on my goddess, I am conqueror! | |
| For once, by chance, not sure or wittingly, | 5 |
| Upon my foot, her tender foot alighted, | |
| With that, she plucked it off full nimbly | |
| As though the very touch had her affrighted. | |
| Dear Mistress! will you deal so cruelly, | |
| To ’prive me of so small a benefit? | 10 |
| What! do you jerk it off so nimbly | |
| As though, in very sooth, a snake had bit it! | |
| Yea, bit perhaps indeed! Ho, Muses, blab you! | |
| Not a word, Pieannets! or I will gag you! | | | | |
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