| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diella | | Sonnet XXXII. The last so sweet, so balmy, so delicious! | | Richard Linche (fl. 1596–1601) |
| | | THE LAST so sweet, so balmy, so delicious! | |
| lips, breath, and tongue, which I delight to drink on: | |
| The first so fair, so bright, so purely precious! | |
| brow, eyes, and cheeks, which still I joy to think on; | |
| But much more joy to gaze, and aye to look on. | 5 |
| those lily rounds which ceaseless hold their moving, | |
| From whence my prisoned eyes would ne’er be gone; | |
| which to such beauties are exceeding loving. | |
| O that I might but press their dainty swelling! | |
| and thence depart, to which must now be hidden, | 10 |
| And which my crimson verse abstains from telling; | |
| because by chaste ears, I am so forbidden. | |
| There, in the crystal-pavèd Vale of Pleasure, | |
| Lies lockèd up, a world of richest treasure. | | | | |
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