| Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet XXXIV Come, let me write. And to what end? To ease A burthened heart. How can words ease, which are The glasses of thy daily vexing care? Oft cruel fights well pictured forth do please. Art not ashamed to publish thy disease? Nay, that may breed my fame, it is so rare. But will not wise men think thy words fond ware? Then be they close, and so none shall displease. What idler thing than speak and not be heard? What harder thing than smart and not to speak? Peace, foolish wit! with wit my wit is marred. Thus write I, while I doubt to write, and wreak My harms on ink's poor loss. Perhaps some find Stella's great powers, that so confuse my mind.
Source: Poetry of the English Renaissance 1509-1660. J. William Hebel and Hoyt H. Hudson, Eds. New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1941. 111.
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