Oh grammar rules, oh now your virtues show <br />So children still read you with awefull eyes, <br />As my young dove may in your precepts wise <br />Her grant to me, by her own virtue know. <br /> <br />For late, with heart most high, with eyes most low, <br />I crav'd the thing which ever she denies: <br />She, lightning Love, displaying Venus' skies, <br />Lest once should not be heard, twice said, 'No, No.' <br /> <br />Sing then, my Muse, now Io Paean sing, <br />Heav'n's envy not at my high triumphing: <br />But grammar's force with sweet success confirm: <br /> <br />For grammar says (oh this, dear Stella, weigh,) <br />For grammar says (to grammar who says nay?) <br />That in one speech two negatives affirm.<br /><br />Sir Philip Sidney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-63-oh-grammar-rules/
