| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXVII. Hope! art thou true, or dost thou flatter me? | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | HOPE! art thou true, or dost thou flatter me? | |
| Doth STELLA now begin with piteous eye, | |
| The ruins of her conquest to espy? | |
| Will she take time, before all wrackèd be? | |
| Her eye’s speech is translated thus by thee: | 5 |
| But fail’st thou not in phrase so heavenly high? | |
| Look on again! the fair text better try! | |
| What blushing notes dost thou in margin see? | |
| What sighs stolen out, or killed before full born? | |
| Hast thou found such, and such like arguments? | 10 |
| Or art thou else to comfort me foresworn? | |
| Well! how so thou interpret their contents: | |
| I am resolved thy error to maintain; | |
| Rather than by more truth to get more pain. | | | | |
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