Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Gabriel Harvey, 1552-1631: Sonnet IX
WERE I as meete, as willing to aduise :
I would in amicable termes entreat
Some forward witts to change their headlong guise,
And lesse in print, and more in mint to sweat.
Pithagoras, and Apollonius sage.
Two woonders of capacity diuine ;
Trained their followers to temper rage.
And Tongue with curious silence to refine.
There is a Time to speake : a Time to write :
But blessed be the Time, that sees, and heares :
Let Petty Starres suppresse their twinckling light :
And glorious Sunne aduance his beamy peeres.
O you of golden mould, that shine like Sun,
Display your heauenly giftes : and I haue dun.
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