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Compares not with her white, Whose haires are all Sunne-beames. So bright my Nimph dooth shine As day vnto my eyne. 

 With this there is a red, Exceedes the Damaske-Rose: 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  dooth arise: 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 light,  This sweete faire  Dea +Name of his mistress, possibly alluding to Dia, beloved of Apollo.  spred, 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 hart, 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 dooth mooue thee: Dooth loue to drawattract , but is not drawne to loue thee. 