Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet LXXXVIII
Out, traytor Absence, dar'st thou counsell me From my deare captainesse to run away, Because in braue array heere marcheth she, That, to win mee, oft shewes a present pay? Is faith so weake? or is such force in thee? When sun is hid, can starres such beames display? Cannot heau'ns food, once felt, keepe stomakes free From base desire on earthly cates to pray? Tush, Absence; while thy mistes eclipse that light, My orphan sense flies to the inward sight, Where memory sets forth the beames of loue; That, where before hart lou'd and eyes did see, In hart both sight and loue now coupled be: Vnited pow'rs make each the stronger proue.
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"Out, traytor Absence, dar'st thou counsell me..."
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