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Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet XV

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You that do search for euery purling spring     Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flowes,     And euery flower, not sweet perhaps, which growes     Neere thereabouts, into your poesie wring;     Ye that do dictionaries methode bring     Into your rimes, running in rattling rowes;     You that poore Petrarchs long deceased woes     With new-borne sighes and denisen'd wit do sing;     You take wrong wayes; those far-fet helps be such     As do bewray a want of inward tuch,     And sure, at length stol'n goods doe come to light:     But if, both for your loue and skill, your name     You seek to nurse at fullest breasts of Fame,     Stella behold, and then begin to indite.

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