Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 56

Fie, school of Patience, fie! Your lesson is
      Far, far too long to learn it without book:
      What, a whole week without one piece of look,
And think I should not your large precepts miss?
When I might read those letters fair of bliss,
      Which in her face teach virtue, I could brook
      Somewhat thy leaden counsels, which I took
As of a friend that meant not much amiss:
      But now that I, alas, do want her sight,
What, dost thou think that I can ever take
In thy cold stuff a phlegmatic delight?
No, Patience, if thou wilt my good, then make
      Her come, and hear with patience my desire,
      And then with patience bid me bear my fire.