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Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet LXIII

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O grammer-rules, O now your vertues show;     So children still reade you with awfull eyes,     As my young doue may, in your precepts wise,     Her graunt to me by her owne vertue know:     For late, with heart most hie, with eyes most lowe,     I crau'd the thing which euer she denies;     Shee, lightning loue, displaying Venus skies,     Least once should not be heard, twise said, No, no.     Sing then, my Muse, now Io Pn sing;     Heau'ns enuy not at my high triumphing,     But grammers force with sweete successe confirme:     For grammer says, (O this, deare Stella, say,)     For grammer sayes, (to grammer who sayes nay?)     That in one speech two negatiues affirme!

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