A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sir Philip Sidney
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Changed to a change, I change not.
Thus may I not be from you; Thus be my senses on you; Thus what I think is of you; Thus what I seek is in you; All what I am, it is you. POEM: VERSES To the tune of a Neapolitan song, which beginneth, "No, no, no, no." No, no, no, no, I cannot hate my foe, Although with cruel fire, First thrown on my desire, She sacks my rendered sprite; For so fair a flame embraces All the places, Where that heat of all heats springeth, That it bringeth To my dying heart some pleasure, Since his treasure Burneth bright in fairest light. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, I cannot hate my foe, Although with cruel fire, |
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