“if . . . you cannot heare the Plannet-like Musick of Poetrie, if you haue so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift it selfe vp to looke to the sky of Poetry . . . thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all Poets, that while you liue, you liue in loue, and neuer get fauour for lacking skill of a Sonnet, and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph.”
Sidney, Sir Phillip. Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie. Ed. J. Churchton Collins. London, Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 1955. pp. 62. Print.
Sir Phillip certainly knew how to curse people back in the 16th centry. And to think: I am assigned such wonderful reading as this. Oxford is great.
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