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| − | Not at first sight, nor with a | + | Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot<br> |
Love gave the wound, which while I breathe will bleed;<br> | Love gave the wound, which while I breathe will bleed;<br> | ||
But known worth did in mine of time proceed,<br> | But known worth did in mine of time proceed,<br> | ||
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[[Category:16th century|1591]] | [[Category:16th century|1591]] | ||
[[Category:1590s|1591]] | [[Category:1590s|1591]] | ||
[[Category:By author|Sidney, Philip, Sir]] | [[Category:By author|Sidney, Philip, Sir]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:17, 28 October 2009
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Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot
Love gave the wound, which while I breathe will bleed;
But known worth did in mine of time proceed,
Till by degrees it had full conquest got
I saw and liked, I liked but loved not;
I lov'd, but straight did not what Love decreed.
At length to love's decrees I, forc'd, agreed,
Yet with repining at so partial lot.
Now even that footstep of lost liberty
Is gone, and now like slave-born Muscovite
I call it praise to suffer tyranny;
And now employ the remnant of my wit
To make myself believe that all is well,
While with a feeling skill I paint my hell.
First Edition
Sir Philip Sidney. "Not at first sight." Astrophel and Stella. London: Thomas Newman, 1591. EEBO
Further Reading
- MacArthur, J. Critical Contexts of Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, and Spencer's Amoretti. Victoria: University of Victoria Press, 1989.
