Sir Arthur Gorges, "Her Face" in R.S., The Phoenix Nest pp. 71-72. (London: Iohn Iackson, 1593)
I copied the image straight from Early English Books Online. There's nothing like a primary source. The cleverness of composition, how you can read each stanza top-down or left-right, and the charm of the rhyme pricked like a dart and stayed in my memory ever since I first read this lyric in the great Elizabethan anthology The Golden Hind.
Search more and you'll find more stanzas than appear in The Phoenix Nest compilation, but the matrix above is all you need to picture the beams of your love's face.
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