| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XLVI. My Mistres seeing her faire counterfet | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | MY Mistres seeing her faire counterfet | |
| So sweetelie framed in my bleeding brest | |
| On it her fancie shee so firmelie set, | |
| Thinking her selfe for want of it distrest. | |
| Enuying that anie should inioy her Image | 5 |
| Since all vnworthie were of such an honor: | |
| Tho gan shee me command to leaue my gage, | |
| The first end of my ioy, last cause of dolor. | |
| But it so fast was fixed to my hart, | |
| Ioind with vnseparable sweete commixture, | 10 |
| That nought had force or power them to part: | |
| Here take my hart quoth I, with it the picture. | |
| But oh coy Dame intollerable smart, | |
| Rather then touch my hart or come about it, | |
| She turnd her face and chose to goe without it. | 15 | | | |
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