Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]
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The Heavenly Nature of the Court of Bliss
When he will see who dare him gainsay, then with those eyes he looks, lo, by and by each soul doth at love's feet his weapons lay. But when he will for quiet's sake remove from all the world, her heart is then his room, where well he knows no man to him can come. Stella oft sees the very face of woe, painted in my beclouded stormy face, but cannot skill to pity my disgrace, not though thereof the calls herself she know. Yet hearing late a fable, which did show of lovers never known, a grievous case, pity thereof gat in her breast such place, that from that seed arrived tears
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