...the dear She might take some pleasure of my pain: Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain: Oft tuming others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunbum't...

...cause her reade, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pitie winne, and pitie grace obtaine, I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertaine: Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitfull showers...

...of woe" (1.5), but with the caveat that this new language should not be tainted with "strangeness": I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertaine: Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitfull showers...

...poesia la vicenda del suo amore infelice. Giordano legge, e trova motivo di comune sentire con l'amico: Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned brain... Come Sleep, o Sleep! The certain knot of peace, the baiting place of wit, the balm...

...moral credibility by having Astrophil's desiderata fulfill the Muse-haters' charges against poetry.12 I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertainer Oft turning other's leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful! showers...

...elaborated from line 5 to line 14: 'I sought fit wordes' (I. 5), 'Studying inventions fine' (I. 6), 'Oft turning others leaves, to see if thence would flow,/ Some fresh and fruitfull showers, upon my sunne-burn'd braine' (II. 7-8), 'But wordes came halting forth' (I. 9),...

...famous first sonnet of Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella (1591), invention is visible in its absence: I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertaine: Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful! showers...

...flower of Florence is in gloom beneath the glowing Brown hills surrounding (DH Lawrence, 'Bat') e. Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain: Oft...to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful flowers upon my sun-burn'd brain. (Sir Philip Sidney, 'Sonnet') f. how Love fled And paced upon the...

...the dear She might take some pleasure of my pain: Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child,...

...She, dear She, might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; at other times being introduced later with apparent casualness so that it perhaps appears as no more...