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Philip Sidney - Astrophel And Stella-Sixth Song
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Oh you thathear this voice, 
Oh you that see this face, 
Say whether of the choice 
Deserves the former place: 
Fear not to judge this `bate, 
For it is void of hate. 

This side doth Beauty take, 
For that doth Music speak, 
Fit orators to make 
The strongest judgments weak: 
The bar to plead their right 
Is only true delight. 

Thus doth the voice and face 
These gentle lawyers wage 
Like loving brothers` case 
For father`s heritage: 
That each, while each contends, 
Itself to other lends. 

For Beauty beautifies 
With heav`nly hue and grace 
The heav`nly harmonies; 
And in this faultless face 
The perfect beauties be 
A perfect harmony. 

Music more loft`ly swells 
In speeches nobly plac`d: 
Beauty as far excels 
In action aptly grac`d: 
A friend each party draws 
To countenance his cause. 

Love more affected seems 
To Beauty`s lovely light, 
And Wonder more esteems 
Of Music`s wondrous might: 
But both to both so bent, 
As both in both are spent. 

Music doth witness call 
The ear, his truth to try: 
Beauty brings to the hall 
The judgment of the eye: 
Both in their objects such 
As no exceptions touch. 

The common sense, which might 
Be arbiter of this, 
To be forsooth upright, 
To both sides partial is: 
He lays on this chief praise, 
Chief praise on that he lays. 

The Reason, princess high, 
Whose throne is in the mind, 
Which Music can in sky 
And hidden beauties find: 
Say whether thou wilt crown 
With limitless renown.
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