| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LVI. Fie! school of Patience, fie! your lesson is | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | FIE! school of PATIENCE, fie! your lesson is | |
| Far far too long to learn it without book. | |
| What! a whole week without one piece of look! | |
| And think I should not your large precepts miss? | |
| When I might read those letters fair of bliss | 5 |
| Which in her face teach virtue: I could brook | |
| Somewhat thy leaden counsels; which I took | |
| As of a friend that meant not much amiss. | |
| But now that I, alas, do want her sight; | |
| What! dost thou think that I can ever take | 10 |
| In thy cold stuff a phlegmatic delight? | |
| No, PATIENCE! If thou wilt my good; then make | |
| Her come, and hear with patience my desire: | |
| And then, with patience bid me bear my fire! | | | | |
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