| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet I. In prime of youthly yeares as then not wounded | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | IN prime of youthly yeares as then not wounded, | |
| With Loues impoisoned dart or bitter gall: | |
| Nor minde nor thought son fickle Fancie grounded | |
| But carelesse hunting after pleasures ball. | |
| I tooke delight to laugh at Louers follie, | 5 |
| Accounting beautie but a fading blossome: | |
| What I esteemed prophane, they deemed holie, | |
| Ioying the thraldome which I counted loathsome. | |
| Their plaints were such as no thing might relieue them, | |
| Their harts did wellnie breake loues paine induring: | 10 |
| Yet still I smild to see how loue did grieue them, | |
| Vnwise they were their sorrowes selfe procuring. | |
| Thus whilst they honoured Cupid for a God, | |
| I held him as a boy not past the rod. | | | | |
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