| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XVIII. Tho with a showre of teares I entertained | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | THO with a showre of teares I entertained, | |
| My wounded hart into my breast accloied: | |
| VVith thousand sundrie cares and griefes vnfained, | |
| Vnfained griefes and cares my hart annoied. | |
| Annoying sorrowes at my harts returning, | 5 |
| Assaild my thoughts with neuer ceasing horror: | |
| That euen my hart, hart like to Ætna burning, | |
| Did often times conspire for to abhorre her. | |
| But enuious loue still bent to eke my morning, | |
| A grieuous pennance for my fault inflicted: | 10 |
| That eies should weepe and hart be euer groaning; | |
| So loue to worke my sorrowes was addicted. | |
| But earths sole wonder whose eies my sense appalled, | |
| The fault was loues, then pardon me, for loue is franticke called. | | | | |
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