The wisest scholler of the wight most wise
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^By Phoebus' doome, with sugred sentence sayes, 1 A^^^Th at ve rt ue, if i t once jnet with our eyes, I . jt *, - Strange flames of love it in our soules would raise. / ;^^ * . ^ ^But, — for that man with paine this truth descries,Whiles he each thing in Sense's ballance wayes,And so nor will nor can behold those skies> Which inward sunne to heroicke minde displaies — Vertue of late, with vertuous care to ster "-■ ■ : \ a ^, ^ Love of her selfe, tooke Stella's shape, that she\ To mortall eyes might sweetly shine in her, . It is most true ; for since I her did see, — ^ ^A kt %<^ ' *" Vertue's gre^t beautie in* that face I prove, \ U ^^ « And find th' effect, for I do burne in love. J
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