Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet LXXIV
I neuer dranke of Aganippe well, Nor euer did in shade of Tempe sit, And Muses scorne with vulgar brains to dwell; Poore Layman I, for sacred rites vnfit. Some doe I heare of Poets fury tell, But, God wot, wot not what they meane by it; And this I sweare by blackest brooke of hell, I am no pick-purse of anothers wit. How falles it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speake; and what I speake doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits doth please? Ghesse we the cause? What, is it this? Fie, no. Or so? Much lesse. How then? Sure thus it is, My lips are sweet, inspir'd with Stellas kisse.
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