| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 48. Cupid, I hate thee! which I’d have thee know! | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1619.]
CUPID, I hate thee! which I’d have thee know! | |
| A naked starveling ever mayst thou be! | |
| Poor rogue! go pawn thy fascia and thy bow | |
| For some poor rags, wherewith to cover thee! | |
| Or if thou ’lt not, thy archery forbear! | 5 |
| To some base rustic do thyself prefer! | |
| And when the corn ’s sown, or grown into the ear; | |
| Practice thy quiver, and turn crowkeeper! | |
| Or being blind, as fittest for the trade, | |
| Go hire thyself some bungling harper’s boy! | 10 |
| They that are blind are minstrels often made! | |
| So mayst thou live, to thy fair mother’s joy! | |
| That whilst with MARS she holdeth her old way, | |
| Thou, her blind son, mayst sit by them and play. | | | | |
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