Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet XXV
The wisest scholler of the wight most wise By Phoebus doom, with sugred sentence sayes, That vertue, if it once met with our eyes, Strange flames of loue it in our souls would raise; But for that man with paine this truth descries, Whiles he each thing in Senses balance wayes, And so nor will nor can behold those skies Which inward sunne to heroick mind displaies Vertue of late, with vertuous care to ster Loue of herself, tooke Stellas shape, that she To mortall eyes might sweetly shine in her. It is most true; for since I her did see, Vertues great beauty in that face I proue, And find th' effect, for I do burn in loue.
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"The wisest scholler of the wight most wise..."
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