Sonnets.
WRITING A SONNET.
Doris, the fair, a sonnet needs must have;
I ne’er was so put to ’t before;—a Sonnet!
Why fourteen verses must be spent upon it;
’Tis good howe’er to have conquered the first stave,
Yet I shall ne’er find rhymes enough by half,
Said I, and found myself i’ th’ midst o’ the second.
If twice four verses were but fairly reckoned
I should turn back on th’ hardest part and laugh,