Canzoniere
Studies in Form
“Ma qui la morta poesi risurga.”
TO OLIVIA AND DOROTHY SHAKESPEAR
Octave
FINE songs, fair songs, these golden usuries
Her beauty earns as but just increment,
And they do speak with a most ill intent
Who say they give when they pay debtor’s fees.
I call him bankrupt in the courts of song
Who hath her gold to eye and pays her not,
Defaulter do I call the knave who hath got
Her silver in his heart and doth her wrong.