| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Introductory: Goe Idle lines vnpolisht rude and base | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | THE
TEARS OF
Fancie.
OR,
Loue Disdained.
Ætna grauius Amor.
Printed at London for William Barley, dwelling
In Gratious streete ouer against Leaden
Hall. 1593.
[Reprinted from the only known copy in the collection of Mrs. Christie-Miller at Britwell.]
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| | GOE Idle lines vnpolisht rude and base, | |
| Vnworthy words to blason beauties glory: | |
| (Beauty that hath my restless hart in chase, | |
| Beauty the subiect of my ruefull story.) | |
| I warne thee shunne the bower of her abiding, | 5 |
| Be not so bold ne hardy as to view her: | |
| Least shee inraged with thee fall a chiding, | |
| And so her anger proue thy woes renewer. | |
| Yet if shee daigne to rew thy dreadfull smart, | |
| And reading laugh, and laughing so mislike thee: | 10 |
| Bid her desist, and looke within my hart, | |
| Where shee may see how ruthles shee did strike mee | |
| If shee be pleasde though shee reward thee not, | |
| What others say of me regard it not. | | | |
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