Astrophil
and Stella, Sonnet
59
Dear, why make you more of a dog than me?
If
he do love, I burn, I
burn in love;
If
he wait well, I never
thence would move;
If he be fair, yet but a dog can be.
Little he is, so little worth is he;
He
barks, my
songs thine own voice oft doth prove:
Bidden,
perhaps, he fetcheth thee
a glove,
But I unbid, fetch even my soul to thee.
Yet
while I languish, him that
bosom clips,
That lap doth lap, nay lets in spite of spite
This sour-breathed mate taste of
those sugared lips.
Alas, if you grant only such delight
To
witless things, then love I hope
(since wit
Becomes
a clog) will soon ease me
of it.