| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XLIV. Long haue I sued to fortune death and loue | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | LONG haue I sued to fortune death and loue, | |
| But fortune, loue, nor death will daine to hear me: | |
| I fortunes frowne, deaths spight, loues horror proue, | |
| And must in loue dispairing liue I feare me. | |
| Loue wounded me, yet nill recure my wounding, | 5 |
| And yet my plaints haue often him inuoked: | |
| Fortune hath often heard my sorrowes sounding, | |
| Sorrowes which my poore hart haue welnigh choked. | |
| Death well might haue beene moued when I lamented, | |
| But cruell death was deafe when I complained: | 10 |
| Death, loue, and fortune all might haue relented, | |
| But fortune, loue, and death, and all disdained. | |
| To pittie me or ease my restles minde, | |
| How can they choose since they are bold and blinde. | | | | |
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