Astrophil and Stella 63: O Grammar rules, O now your virtues show

Highlight Actions Enable or disable annotations O Grammar rules, O now your virtues show; So children still read read To discern and discover you with awful awful Archaic term for “awe-filled”. eyes, As my young Dove may in your precepts wise Her grant to me, by her own virtue know. For late with heart most high, with eyes most low, I crav’d the thing which ever she denies: She lightning Love lightning Love That is, lightening Love , displaying Venus’ skies Venus’ skies Venus as both the planet (evening star) and the goddess of Love , Least once should not be heard, twice said, No, No. Sing Sing … sing This line is an example of epanalepsis, the poetic technique of beginning and ending the line with the same word. then my Muse, now Io P æ an Io P æ an Homer began his hymn to Apollo with these words, which serve as a Latinized version of the phrase “Sing Muse...” sing, Heav’ns envy not at my high triumphing: But Grammar’s force with sweet success confirm, For Grammar says (O this dear Stella weigh,) For Grammar says (to Grammar who says nay) That in one speech two Negatives affirm.