Syr P.S. His Astrophel and Stella Wherein the excellence of sweete poesie is concluded. To the end of which are added, sundry other rare sonnets of diuers noble men and gentlemen.
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586., Newman, Thomas, fl. 1587-1598. aut, Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601. aut, Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619. aut

Sonnet, 14.

IF a true heart and faith vnfained,
If a sweete languish with a chast desire,
If hunger-steruen thoughts so long retained,
Fed but with smoke, and cherisht but with fire.
And if a brow with Cares caracters painted,
Bewrayes my Loue with broken words halfe spoken,
To her which sits in my thoughts temple sainted,
And layes to view my vulture-gnawen heart open.
If I haue wept the day, and sigthd the night,
Whilst thrice the Sun approcht this northern bound:
If such a faith hath euer wrought aright,
And well deserud, and yet no fauour found:
Let this suffice, the wholeworld it may see
The fault is hers, though mine the most hurt bee.