With thousand arrowes, which your eies have shot: Yet shoot ye sharpely still, and spare me not, But glory thinke to make these cruel stoures.

 Context: These lines are taken from Sonnet LVII. Sweet warrior! when shall I have peace with you by Edmund Spenser.

Explanation: In the sonnet LVII- (Sweet Warrior), Spenser the poet describes himself as a mere slave pleading her in order to make her accept his proposal. The sonnet continues the ongoing struggle the speaker suffers in dealing with an unresponsive beloved. The lover addresses his beloved as a “Sweet warrior” and asks a question “when shall I have peace with you?” The question is self evident of the frustration and desperation in his tone. Like that of many Shakespearean sonnets, this sonnet continues with the torment the speaker is going through while dealing with an indifferent beloved. The lover asks her to end the war she has waged against him as he cannot tolerate anymore. His powers have weakened and his wounds have deteriorated. He says that the arrows shot from her eyes pierced through his heart and make him unable to survive without her. In the final two lines he requests her to “Make peace” “and graunt” him timely grace”, “so That” all his “wounds will heale in little space.” Her attacks are the constant refusals that make him suffer.

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