Love
Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 83
From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)
WHiles that this Aire I breath to coole my Heart,
My Hart's inflamed so with loues desire
That Aire to Fire it doth thereby conuert:
So liues my Hart in Hel, or quenchlesse fire!
Then, canst thou Goddesse full of outward grace,
(In whom I hope, sith thee I loue and serue)
Still feed these flames with Beames sent from thy face
And martyr him thou shouldst from paines preserue:
Then may I say, by Kind th' art glorious made,
But by vnkindnesse thou thy selfe dost mar:
Thou mar'st thy selfe. That is, thou mak'st me vade,
Who, then thy selfe doth loue thee better far:
And yet thou lov'st thy self too well for me
Sith so thou lou'st, because I so loue thee.
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