| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | A Recantation | | Anonymous |
| | | O LOVE, sweet Love, O high and heavenly Love! | |
| The court of pleasures, paradise of rest, | |
| Without whose circuit all things bitter prove, | |
| Within whose ceinture every wretch is blest: | |
| O grant me pardon, sacred deity, | 5 |
| I do recant my former heresy! | |
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| And thou, the dearest idol of my thought, | |
| Whom love I did, and do, and always will: | |
| O pardon what my coy disdain hath wrought, | |
| My coy disdain, the author of this ill: | 10 |
| And for the pride that I have show’d before, | |
| By Love I swear I’ll love thee ten times more. | | | | |
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