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"You knew, who knew not Astrophil?
(That I should live to say I knew,
And have not in possession still!)
Things known, permit me to renew:
  Of him you know, his merit such,
  I cannot say, you hear too much."

"Within these woods of Arcady,
His chief delight and pleasure took:
And on the mountain Partheny,
Upon the crystal liquid brook,
  The Muses met him every day;
  That taught him sing, to write, and say."

"When he descended down the mount,
His personage seemed most divine;
A thousand graces one might count
Upon his lovely cheerful eyen:
  To hear him speak, and sweetly smile;
  You were in Paradise the while."

"A sweet attractive kind of grace;
A full assurance given by looks;
Continual comfort in a face,
The lineaments of Gospel books.
  I trow that countenance cannot lie,
  Whose thoughts are legible in the eye."