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Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet XXVIII

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You that with Allegories curious frame     Of others children changelings vse to make,     With me those pains, for Gods sake, do not take:     I list not dig so deep for brazen fame,     When I say Stella I do meane the same     Princesse of beauty for whose only sake     The raines of Loue I loue, though neuer slake,     And ioy therein, though nations count it shame.     I beg no subiect to vse eloquence,     Nor in hid wayes to guide philosophy:     Looke at my hands for no such quintessence;     But know that I in pure simplicitie     Breathe out the flames which burn within my heart,     Loue onely reading vnto me this arte.

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