| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXXIII. Some say that women loue for to be praised | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | SOME say that women loue for to be praised, | |
| But droope when as they thinke their faire must die: | |
| Ioying to haue their beauties glorie raised, | |
| By fames shril trompe aboue the starrie skie. | |
| I then whome want of skill might be with drawing, | 5 |
| Extold her beautie not as yet deserued: | |
| She said my words were flatterie and fayning, | |
| For good intent to bad euent soone swerued. | |
| Some say againe they will denie and take it, | |
| I gaue my hart, my hart that dearly cost me: | 10 |
| No sooner offerd but she did forsake it, | |
| Scorning my proffered gift so still she crost me. | |
| But were I (alas I am not) false and truthles: | |
| Then had she reason to be sterne and ruthles. | | | | |
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