| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XLVI. I curst thee oft, I pity now thy case | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | I CURST thee oft, I pity now thy case, | |
| Blind-hitting boy! since she, that thee and me | |
| Rules with a beck, so tyrannizeth thee, | |
| That thou must want or food or dwelling place. | |
| For she protests to “banish thee her face.” | 5 |
| Her face! O LOVE, a rogue thou then shouldst be! | |
| “If LOVE learn not alone to love and see, | |
| Without desire to feed of further grace.” | |
| Alas, poor wag! that now a scholar art | |
| To such a schoolmistress, whose lessons new | 10 |
| Thou needs must miss; and so, thou needs must smart! | |
| Yet Dear! let me his pardon get of you, | |
| So long (though he from book myche to desire) | |
| Till without fuel, you can make hot fire. | | | | |
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