| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXIV. No more! my Dear! no more these counsels try! | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | NO more! my Dear! no more these counsels try! | |
| O give my passions leave to run their race! | |
| Let Fortune lay on me her worst disgrace! | |
| Let folk o’ercharged with brain, against me cry! | |
| Let clouds bedim my face, break in mine eye! | 5 |
| Let me no steps but of lost labour trace! | |
| Let all the earth in scorn recount my case; | |
| But do not will me from my love to fly! | |
| I do not envy ARISTOTLE’s wit; | |
| Nor do aspire to CÆSAR’s bleeding fame; | 10 |
| Nor ought do care, though some above me sit; | |
| Nor hope, nor wish another course to frame: | |
| But that which once may win thy cruel heart. | |
| Thou art my Wit, and thou my Virtue art. | | | | |
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