| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XIX. My hart impos’d this penance on mine eies | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | MY hart impos’d this penance on mine eies, | |
| (Eies the first causers of my harts lamenting): | |
| That they should weepe till loue and fancie dies, | |
| Fond loue the last cause of my harts repenting. | |
| Mine eies vpon my hart inflict this paine, | 5 |
| (Bold hart that dard to harbour thoughts of loue) | |
| That it should loue and purchase fell disdaine, | |
| A grieuous penance which my hart doth proue. | |
| Mine eies did weepe as hart had them imposed, | |
| My hart did pine as eies had it constrained: | 10 |
| Eies in their teares my paled face disclosed, | |
| Hart in his sighs did show it was disdained. | |
| So th’one did weepe th’other sighed, both grieued, | |
| For both must liue and loue, both vnrelieued. | | | | |
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