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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Sonnets and Poetical Translations

XIII. “Unto nobody,” my woman saith, “she had rather a wife be”

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

“UNTO nobody,” my woman saith, “she had rather a wife be

Than to myself; not though JOVE grew a suitor of hers.”

These be her words, but a woman’s words to a love that is eager,

In wind or water’s stream do require to be writ.