| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXX. Fresh Spring, the herald of love’s mighty king | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | FRESH Spring, the herald of love’s mighty king, | |
| In whose coat-armour richly are displayed | |
| All sorts of flowers, the which on earth do spring, | |
| In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; | |
| Go to my love, where she is careless laid, | 5 |
| Yet in her winter’s bower not well awake; | |
| Tell her the joyous time will not be stayed, | |
| Unless she do him by the forelock take; | |
| Bid her therefore herself soon ready make, | |
| To wait on Love amongst his lovely crew; | 10 |
| Where every one, that misseth then her make, | |
| Shall be by him amerced with penance due. | |
| Make haste, therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime; | |
| For none can call again the passed time. | | | | |
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