| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets and Poetical Translations | | XXXI. Of this high grace, with bliss conjoined | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | | The same SIRENO in MONTEMAYOR holding his mistress’s glass before her; looking upon her, while she viewed herself; thus sang: |
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OF this high grace, with bliss conjoined, | |
| No further debt on me is laid; | |
| Since that in selfsame metal coined | |
| Sweet lady! you remain well paid. | |
| For if my place give me great pleasure, | 5 |
| Having before me Nature’s treasure; | |
| In face and eyes unmatched being: | |
| You have the same in my hands, seeing | |
| What in your face, mine eyes do measure. | |
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| Nor think the match unev’nly made, | 10 |
| That of those beams in you do tarry! | |
| The glass to you, but gives a shade; | |
| To me, mine eyes the true shape carry. | |
| For such a thought most highly prized, | |
| Which ever hath love’s yoke despised, | 15 |
| Better than one captived perceiveth. | |
| Though he the lively form receiveth; | |
| The other sees it but disguised. | | | |
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