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Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet XII

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Cupid, because thou shin'st in Stellaes eyes     That from her locks thy day-nets none scapes free     That those lips sweld so full of thee they be     That her sweet breath makes oft thy flames to rise     That in her breast thy pap well sugred lies     That her grace gracious makes thy wrongsthat she,     What words soere shee speake, perswades for thee     That her clere voice lifts thy fame to the skies,     Thou countest Stella thine, like those whose pow'rs     Hauing got vp a breach by fighting well,     Crie Victorie, this faire day all is ours!     O no; her heart is such a cittadell,     So fortified with wit, stor'd with disdaine,     That to win it is all the skill and paine.

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