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Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet LXXXIV

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High way, since you my chiefe Pernassus be,     And that my Muse, to some eares not vnsweet,     Tempers her words to trampling horses feete     More oft then to a chamber-melodie.     Now, blessed you beare onward blessed me     To her, where I my heart, safe-left, shall meet;     My Muse and I must you of dutie greet     With thankes and wishes, wishing thankfully.     Be you still faire, honord by publicke heede;     By no encroachment wrong'd, nor time forgot;     Nor blam'd for bloud, nor sham'd for sinfull deed;     And that you know I enuy you no lot     Of highest wish, I wish you so much bliss,     Hundreds of yeares you Stellaes feet may kisse.

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