| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXXII. Those whose kind harts sweet pittie did attaint | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | THOSE whose kind harts sweet pittie did attaint, | |
| With ruthfull teares bemond my miseries: | |
| Those which had heard my neuer ceasing plaint, | |
| Or read my woes ingrauen on the trees. | |
| At last did win my Ladie to consort them, | 5 |
| Vnto the fountaine of my flowing anguish: | |
| VVhere she vnkind and they might boldly sport them, | |
| VVhilst I meanewhile in sorrows lappe did languish, | |
| Their meaning was that she some teares should shed, | |
| Into the well in pitty of my pining: | 10 |
| She gaue consent and putting forth her head, | |
| Did in the well perceaue her beautie shining. | |
| VVhich seeing she withdrew her head puft vp with prid | |
| And would not shed a teare should I haue died. | | | | |
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