| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet XLVIII. You that embrace enchanting Poesy | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | YOU that embrace enchanting Poesy, | |
| Be gracious to perplexèd CORIN’s lines! | |
| You that do feel Love’s proud authority, | |
| Help me to sing my sighs and sad designs! | |
| CHLORIS, requite not faithful love with scorn! | 5 |
| But, as thou oughtest, have commiseration. | |
| I have enough anatomized and torn | |
| My heart, thereof to make a pure oblation. | |
| Likewise consider how thy CORIN prizeth | |
| Thy parts above each absolute perfection! | 10 |
| How he, of every precious thing deviseth, | |
| To make thee Sovereign! Grant me then affection! | |
| Else thus I prize thee, CHLORIS is alone | |
| More hard than gold, or pearl, or precious stone. | | | | |
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