Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet CIV (Envious wits, what hath been mine offense,) lyrics

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Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet CIV (Envious wits, what hath been mine offense,) lyrics

Envious wits, what hath been mine offense, That with such poisonous care my looks you mark, That to each word, nay sigh of mine you hark, As grudging me my sorrow's eloquence? Ah, is it not enough that I am thence? Thence, so far thence, that scarcely any spark Of comfort dare come to this dungeon dark, Where rigorous exile locks up all my sense? But if I by a happy window pa**, If I but stars upon mine armor bear --Sick, thirsty, glad (though but of empty gla**): Your moral notes straight my hid meaning tear From out my ribs, and puffing prove that I Do Stella love. Fools, who doth it deny?

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