Sonnet 83: Good, Brother Philip

Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)



Good, brother Philip, I have borne you long.
I was content you should in favor creep,
While craftily you seem'd your cut to keep,
As though that fair soft hand did you great wrong.

I bare (with envy) yet I bare your song,
When in her neck you did love ditties peep;
Nay, more fool I, oft suffer'd you to sleep
In lilies' nest, where Love's self lies along.

What, doth high place ambitious thoughts augment?
Is sauciness reward of courtesy?
Cannot such grace your silly self content,

But you must needs with those lips billing be?
And through those lips drink nectar from that tongue?
Leave that, Sir Phip, lest off your neck be wrung.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBA ABBA CDC DEE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 642
Words 118
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3

Sir Philip Sidney

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