Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet XXVII
Because I oft in darke abstracted guise Seeme most alone in greatest company, With dearth of words, or answers quite awrie, To them that would make speech of speech arise; They deeme, and of their doome the runour flies, That poison foul of bubbling pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawne on my selfe, and others do despise. Yet pride I thinke doth not my soule possesse (Which looks too oft in his vnflatt'ring glasse): But one worse fault, ambition, I confesse, That makes me oft my best friends ouerpasse, Vnseene, vnheard, while thought to highest place Bends all his powers, euen vnto Stellaes grace.
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