| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet IV. Tho taking in her lap the God of loue | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | THO taking in her lap the God of loue, | |
| Shee lightly mounted through the Christall aire: | |
| And in her Coach ydrawne with siluer Doues, | |
| To Vulcans smokie Forge shee did repaire. | |
| VVhere hauing wonne the Ciclops to her will, | 5 |
| Loues quiuer fraught with arrowes of the best: | |
| His bended bow in hand all armed to kill, | |
| He vowd reuenge and threatned my vnrest. | |
| And to be sure that he would deadly strike me, | |
| His blindfold eies he did a while vncouer: | 10 |
| Choosing an arrow that should much mislike me, | |
| He bad wound him that scornes to be a Louer. | |
| But when he saw his bootles arrow shiuer, | |
| He brake his bow, and cast away his quiuer. | | | | |
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