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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."