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    Sir Philip Sidney - Sonnet 1 - From Astrophil and Stella

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    ASTROPHIL AND STELLA: 14 / 213

    FROM ASTROPHIL AND STELLA 6

    1
    Loving in truth, and fain 0 in verse my love to show, eager
    That she dear she might take some pleasure of my pain,
    Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,
    Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,
    I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe:
    Studying inventions 7 fine, her wits to entertain,
    Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow
    Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned brain.
    But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;0 support
    Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows;
    And others' feet 8 still seemed but strangers in my way.
    Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, 9
    Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
    "Fool," said my Muse 1 to me, "look in thy heart, and write."

    14
    Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend,
    Upon whose breast a fiercer gripe 0 doth tire° vulture I tear
    Than did on him who first stale 0 down the fire, stole
    While Love 2 on me doth all his quiver spend,
    But with your rhubarb 0 words you must contend cynical
    To grieve me worse, in saying that Desire
    Doth plunge my well-formed soul even in the mire
    Of sinful thoughts, which do in ruin end?
    If that be sin which doth the manners frame, 3
    Well stayed 0 with truth in word and faith of deed, supported
    Ready of wit, and fearing naught but shame;
    If that be sin which in fixed hearts doth breed
    A loathing of all loose unchastity,
    Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

    6. Starlover and Star (Latin). The first of the great imagination.


    Elizabethan sonnet cycles that relied heavily on the 8. With a pun on the units of poetic measure
    conventions developed by the Italian poet Petrarch (called feet).
    (1304-1374), Astrophil and Stella has 108 sonnets 9. I.e., birth-throes.
    and eleven songs. The sequence alludes to Sidney's 1. Source of poetic inspiration.
    ambiguous relationship with Penelope Devereux, 2. Cupid, Roman god of erotic love. Him . . .fire:
    who married Lord Robert Rich in 1581. It was cir- In Greek mythology, Prometheus, for having stolen
    culated in manuscript form during Sidney's life- fire for man's benefit, was chained to a rock and
    time. preyed upon daily by a vulture that tore at his vitals.
    7. In art and literary composition, the devising of 3. Which builds character {manners: morals).
    a subject or idea by the exercise of the intellect or

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