Sonet 9

Loue once would daunce within my Mistres eye,

And wanting musique fitting for the place,

Swore that I should the Instrument supply,

And sodainly presents me with her face:

Straightwayes my pulse playes liuely in my vaines,

My panting breath doth keepe a meaner time,

My quau'ring artiers be the Tenours Straynes,

My trembling sinewes serue the Counterchime,

My hollow sighs the deepest base doe beare,

True diapazon in distincted sound:

My panting hart the treble makes the ayre,

And descants finely on the musiques ground;

Thus like a Lute or Violl did I lye,

Whilst the proud slaue daunc'd galliards in her eye.

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