| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diella | | Sonnet XXXI. Fair ivory Brow, the board Love banquets on! | | Richard Linche (fl. 1596–1601) |
| | | FAIR ivory Brow, the board LOVE banquets on! | |
| sweet Lips of coral hue, but silken softness! | |
| Fair Suns that shine, when PHŒBUS’ eyes are gone! | |
| sweet Breath that breathes incomparable sweetness! | |
| Fair Cheeks of purest roses red and white! | 5 |
| sweet Tongue containing sweeter thing than sweet! | |
| O that my Muse could mount a lofty flight, | |
| and were not all so forceless, and unmeet | |
| To blaze the beauty of thy several shine, | |
| And tell the sweetness of thy sundry taste! | 10 |
| Able of none but of the Muses nine, | |
| to be arightly honourèd and graced. | |
| The first so fair, so bright, so purely precious! | |
| The last so sweet, so balmy, so delicious! | | | | |
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