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To pierce the heauen with their aspiring head, Naked and bare doth leaue their craggie seat. When as the bubble, which did empty flie  The daliancedalliance, amorous play, caress  of the vndiscerned winde: On whose calme rowling waues it did relie, Hath shipwrack made, where it did daliancedalliance, amorous play, caress  finde: And when the Sun-shine which dissolu’d the snow, Colourd the bubble with a pleasant varievariety ,  And made the ratheearly  and timely Primrose grow, Swarth clowdes with-drawne (which longer time do tarie)(when the sunshine made) the dark, dark clouds withdraw,                         that would have stayed around for longer Oh what is praise, pompe, glory, ioy, but so As shine by fountaines, bubbles, flowers or snow? 

FINIS. E. B.

¶ Astrophell the Shepheard, his complaint to
his Flocke. +This poem appears in Astrophel and Stella (1591), pp. 59-60; The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1598), pp. 558-9. Other copies in: C: Dd.5.75, c. 1595, fols.47-7v; E2: De.5.96, c.1590, fols. 38-9v. Author: Sir Philip Sidney. Structure (May/Ringler): 50: 10×5 a7b8a7bb8, 4troch

G Oe my flocke, goe get yee hence, Seeke a better place of feeding: Where yee may haue some defence From the stormes in my breast breeding,  And showers from mine eyes proceeding. 

Leaue a wretch, in whom all woe, can abidedwell  to keepe no measure: Merry Flocke, such one forgoe vnto whom mirth is displeasure,  onely rich in mischiefes treasure. 