| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet XLI. Fair Shepherdess, when as these rustic lines | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | FAIR Shepherdess, when as these rustic lines | |
| Come to thy sight, weigh but with what affection | |
| Thy servile doth depaint his sad designs; | |
| Which to redress, of thee he makes election. | |
| If so you scorn, you kill; if you seem coy, | 5 |
| You wound poor CORIN to the very heart; | |
| If that you smile, you shall increase his joy; | |
| If these you like, you banish do all smart: | |
| And this I do protest, most fairest Fair, | |
| My Muse shall never cease that hill to climb, | 10 |
| To which the learned Muses do repair! | |
| And all to deify thy name in rhyme. | |
| And never none shall write with truer mind | |
| As by all proof and trial you shall find. | | | | |
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