| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet LIX. Oft haue I raild against loue many waies | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | OFT haue I raild against loue many waies, | |
| But pardon loue I honour now thy power: | |
| For were my Pallace Greece Pyramides, | |
| Cupid should there erect a stately bower. | |
| And in my Pallace sing his sugred songs, | 5 |
| And Venus Doues my selfe will finely feede: | |
| And nurce her sparrowes and her milke white Swans. | |
| Yea, in my restles bosome should they breede. | |
| And thou deare Ladie sacred and diuine, | |
| Shalt haue thy place within my hart assignd: | 10 |
| Thy picture yea thy fierie darting eien, | |
| He carrie painted in my grieued mind. | |
| The chiefest coullers shall be scarlet blood, | |
| Which Cupid pricketh from my wofull hart: | |
| And teares commixt shall further forth my good, | 15 |
| To paint thy glories cording their desart. | |
| I now am changed from what I woont to be, | |
| Cupid is God, And there is none but he. | | | | |
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