Astrophel and Stella: 25

The wisest scholler of the weight most wise,By Phœbus doome, with sugred sentence sayes,That vertue if it once met with our eyes,Strange flames of Loue it in our soules would rayse.But for that man with paine this trueth descries,Whiles he each thing in senses ballance wayes,And so nor will, nor can behold those skies,Which inward sunns to Heroick mind displaies.Vertue of late with vertuous care to sterLoue of her selfe, tooke Stellas shape, that sheTo mortall eyes might sweetly shine in her.It is most true, for since I her did see,Vertues great beautie in that face I proue,And find th'effect, for I do burne in loue.