| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 39. Some, when in rhyme, they of their loves do tell | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1594 (No. 18), and in all later editions.] |
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SOME, when in rhyme, they of their loves do tell; | |
| With flames and lightnings their exordiums paint. | |
| Some call on heaven, some invocate on hell, | |
| And Fates and Furies, with their woes acquaint. | |
| Elizium is too high a seat for me. | 5 |
| I will not come in Styx or Phlegethon. | |
| The thrice-three Muses but too wanton be. | |
| Like they that lust, I care not, I will none! | |
| Spiteful ERINNYS frights me with her looks, | |
| My manhood dares not, with foul ATE mell. | 10 |
| I quake to look on HECATE’s charming books. | |
| I still fear bugbears in APOLLO’s cell. | |
| I pass not for MINERVA! nor ASTREA! | |
| Only I call on my divine IDEA! | | | |
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