Amoretti, Sonnet L

Edmund Spenser· 1552 – 1599· English

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Edmund Spenser

LONG languishing in double malady,

of my harts wound and of my bodies greife:

there came to me a leach that would apply

fit medicines for my bodies best reliefe

Vayne man (quod I) that hast but little priefe:

in deep discouery of the mynds disease,

is not the hart of all the body chiefe?

and rules the members as it selfe doth please.

Then with some cordialls seeke first to appease,

the inward languour of my wounded hart,

and then my body shall haue shortly ease:

but such sweet cordialls passe Physitions art.

Then my lyfes Leach doe you your skill reueale,

and with one salue both hart and body heale.

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Complete 89-sonnet sequence. Renascence Editions transcription of Alexander Grosart’s 1882 edition.
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