| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXXIII. Love still a boy, and oft a wanton is | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | LOVE still a boy, and oft a wanton is; | |
| Schooled only by his mother’s tender eye. | |
| What wonder then, if he his lesson miss; | |
| When for so soft a rod, dear play he try? | |
| And yet my Star, because a sugared kiss | 5 |
| In sport I suckt, while she asleep did lie: | |
| Doth lower; nay, chide; nay, threat for only this! | |
| “Sweet! It was saucy LOVE, not humble I.” | |
| But no ’scuse serves; she makes her wrath appear | |
| In Beauty’s throne. See now! who dares come near | 10 |
| Those scarlet judges, threat’ning bloody pain? | |
| O heavenly fool! Thy most kiss-worthy face, | |
| Anger invests with such a lovely grace; | |
| That ANGER’s self! I needs must kiss again! | | | | |
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