| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Sonet LXXXI | | XI. Henry Lok |
| | From the “Second Centurie”
LO, how I groueling vnder burden lie | |
| Of sin, of shame, of feare, Lord, of thy sight; | |
| My guilt so manifold dare not come nie | |
| Thy throne of mercy, mirror of thy might. | |
| With hidden and with ignorant sinnes I fight, | 5 |
| Dispairing and presumptuous faults also: | |
| All fleshly frailtie on my backe doth light, | |
| Originall and actuall with me go. | |
| Against a streame of lusts my will would roe | |
| To gaine the shoare of grace, the port of peace: | 10 |
| But flouds of foule affections ouerfloe, | |
| And sinke I must; I see now no release, | |
| Vnlesse my Sauiour deare this burden take, | |
| And faith a ship of safetie for me make. | | | | |
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