Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]
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The Importance of Love
Love, I thought that I was full of thee. But with your rhubarb words you must contend to grieve me worse. If that be sin which in fixed heart doth breed a loathing of all loose unchastity, then Love is sin, and let me sinful be. In nature apt to like when I did see beauties, which were of many carrots fine, my boiling sprites did thither soon incline; but if, both for your love and skill, your name you seek to nurse at fullest breasts of fame, Stella behold, and then begin to indict. You take wrong ways. Those far-fed helps are such as do beret a want of inward
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