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Which in her cheekes is spred, Whence euery fauour growes. In Skie there is no starre,  But she surmounts it farre. 

When  Phoebus  from the bed Of  Thetis  doth arise: +that is the sun rising                       from the sea The morning blushing red, In faire Carnation wise:  He shewes in my Nimphs face, As Queene of euery grace. 

This pleasant Lilly white, This taint of Roseaterose-red  red: This  Cinthiaes  siluer lightthe moon’s ,  This sweete faire  Dea  spred, +name of his mistress, possibly alluding to Dia, beloved of Apollo These Sun-beames in mine eye, These beauties make me die. 

FINIS. Earle of Oxenford.

¶ Coridon to his Phillis. +Reprinted from Phoenix Nest , ‘Alas my hart, mine eie hath wronged thee’ *. Author: attributed to Sir Edward Dyer in Phoenix Nest . Structure (May/Ringler): 30: 5×6 sx4troch

A Las my heart, mine eye hath wronged thee, Presumptuous eye, to gaze on  Phillis  face: Whose heauenly eye no mortall man may see, But he must die, or purchase  Phillis  grace.  Poore  Coridon,  the Nimph whose eye doth moue ||(thee: Doth loue to drawattract , but is not drawne to loue thee. 