Mary Wroth

Crown 10

The Crown Sonnets

Be from the court of Love and Reason torn,

For Love in Reason now doth put his trust,

Desert and liking are together born,

Children of love and reason, parents just.

 

Reason adviser is, Love ruler must

Be of the state which crown he long hath worn,

Yet so as neither will in least mistrust

The government where no fear is of scorn,

 

Then reverence both, their mights thus made but one,

But wantonness, and all those errors shun,

Which wrongers be, impostures, and alone

Maintainers of all follies ill begun;

 

Fruit of a sour, and unwholesome ground

Unprofitably pleasing, and unsound.