Astrophil
and Stella, Sonnet
67
Hope, art thou true, or dost thou flatter me?
Doth Stella now begin with
piteous eye
The ruins of her conquest to espy:
Will she take time, before all wracked be?
Her eyes’ speech is translated thus by thee.
But fail’st thou not in
phrase so heavenly high?
Look on again, the fair text better
try:
What blushing notes dost thou in margin see?
What sighs stolen out,
or killed before full born?
Hast thou found such, and such-like arguments?
Or art thou else to comfort me foresworn?
Well, how so thou interpret the contents,
I am resolved thy error
to maintain,
Rather than by more truth to get
more pain.