| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXIV. Still let me liue forlorne and die disdained | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | STILL let me liue forlorne and die disdained, | |
| My hart consenting to continuall languish: | |
| If loue (my harts sore) may not be obtained, | |
| But with the danger of my Ladies anguish. | |
| Let me oppose my selfe gainst sorrowes force, | 5 |
| And arme my hart to beare woes heauy load: | |
| Vnpittied let me die without remorce, | |
| Rather than monster fame shall blase abroad; | |
| That I was causer of her woes induring, | |
| Or brought faire beauty to so fowle a domage: | 10 |
| If life or death might be her ioyes procuring, | |
| Both life, loue, death, and all should doe her homage. | |
| But shee liues safe in freedomes liberty, | |
| I liue and die in loues extremitie. | | | | |
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