| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXVI. It pleasd my Mistris once to take the aire | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | IT pleasd my Mistris once to take the aire, | |
| Amid the vale of loue for her disporting. | |
| The birds perceauing one so heauenly faire, | |
| With other Ladies to the groue resorting. | |
| Gan dolefully report my sorrowes endles, | 5 |
| But shee nill listen to my woes repeating: | |
| But did protest that I should sorrow friendle | |
| So liue I now and looke for ioyes defeating. | |
| But ioyfull birds melodious harmonie, | |
| Whose siluer tuned songs might well haue moued her: | 10 |
| Inforst the rest to rewe my miserie, | |
| Though shee denyd to pittie him that lou’d her. | |
| For shee had vowd her faire should neuer please me, | |
| Yet nothing but her loue can once appease me. | | | | |
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