| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXXXIII. Good brother Philip! I have born you long | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | GOOD brother PHILIP! I have born you long. | |
| I was content you should in favour creep, | |
| While craftily you seemed your cut to keep; | |
| As though that fair soft hand did you great wrong. | |
| I bare (with envy) yet I bare your song, | 5 |
| When in her neck you did love ditties peep; | |
| Nay, more fool I! oft suffered you to sleep | |
| In lilies’ nest, where LOVE’s self lies along. | |
| What! doth high place ambitious thoughts augment? | |
| Is sauciness, reward of courtesy? | 10 |
| Cannot such grace your silly self content; | |
| But you must needs, with those lips billing be? | |
| And through those lips drink nectar from that tongue? | |
| Leave that Sir PHIP! lest off your neck be wrung! | | | | |
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