<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519470" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XVII: His Mother Dear Cupid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His mother dear Cupid offended late, <br>Because that Mars grown slacker in her love, <br>With pricking shot he did not throughly more <br>To keep the pace of their first loving state. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boy refus'd for fear of Mars's hate, <br>Who threaten'd stripes, if he his wrath did prove: <br>But she in chafe him from her lap did shove, <br>Brake bow, brake shafts, while Cupid weeping sate: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till that his grandame Nature pityijng it <br>Of stella's brows make him two better bows, <br>And in her eyes of arrows infinite. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh how for joy he leaps, oh how he crows, <br>And straight therewith like wags new got to play, <br>Falls to shrewd turns, and I was in his way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Philip+Sidney">Philip Sidney</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519470" data-title="Sonnet XVII: His Mother Dear Cupid de Philip Sidney" data-description="His mother dear Cupid offended late, Because that Mars grown slacker in her love, With pricking shot he did not throughly more To keep the pace of their first loving state. The boy refus'd for fear of Mars's hate, Who threaten'd stripes, if ..."></div> </div> </div>

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