Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet XIII
Phoebus was iudge betweene Ioue, Mars, and Loue, Of those three gods, whose armes the fairest were. Ioues golden shield did sable eagles beare, Whose talons held young Ganimed aboue: But in vert field Mars bare a golden speare, Which through a bleeding heart his point did shoue: Each had his creast; Mars carried Venus gloue, Ioue on his helmet the thunderbolt did reare. Cupid then smiles, for on his crest there lies Stellas faire haire; her face he makes his shield, Where roses gules are borne in siluer field. Phoebus drew wide the curtaines of the skies, To blaze these last, and sware deuoutly then, The first, thus matcht, were scantly gentlemen.
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