| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet LIV. Blame me not deere loue though I talke at randon | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | BLAME me not deere loue though I talke at randon. | |
| Terming thee scornefull, proud, vnkind, disdaineful | |
| Since all I doe cannot my woes abandon, | |
| Or ridde me of the yoake I feele so painefull. | |
| If I doe paint thy pride or want of pittie, | 5 |
| Consider likewise how I blase thy beautie: | |
| Inforced to the first in mournefull dittie, | |
| Constrained to the last by seruile dutie: | |
| And take thou no offence if I misdeemed, | |
| Thy beauties glorie quencheth thy prides blemish: | 10 |
| Better it is of all to be esteemed, | |
| Faire and too proud than not faire and too squemishe. | |
| And seeing thou must scorne and tis aprooued, | |
| Scorne to be ruthles since thou art beloued. | | | | |
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