True and most true, that I must Stella love.

Some Lovers speake, when they their Muses entertaine

Of hopes begot, by feare, of wot not what desires,

Of force of heavenly beames, infusing hellish paine;

Of lyving deathes, deere woundes, faire Stormes, and friesing fyres.

Some one his songs in Jove and Joves straunge tales attyres,

Bordered with Bulles and Swannes, poudered with golden raine:

Another humbler witte to shepheards pipe retyres,

Yet hiding royall blood, full oft in Rurall vaine.

To some a sweetest plaint a sweetest stile affordes,