| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Phillis | | Sonnet XVIII. As where two raging venoms are united | | Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
| | | AS where two raging venoms are united, | |
| Which of themselves dissevered life would sever, | |
| The sickly wretch of sickness is acquited, | |
| Which else should die, or pine in torments ever; | |
| So fire and frost, that hold my heart in seizure, | 5 |
| Restore those ruins which themselves have wrought, | |
| Where if apart they both had had their pleasure, | |
| The earth long since her fatal claim had caught. | |
| Thus two united deaths keep me from dying; | |
| I burn in ice, and quake amidst the fire, | 10 |
| No hope midst these extremes or favour spying; | |
| Thus love makes me a martyr in his ire. | |
| So that both cold and heat do rather feed | |
| My ceaseless pains, than any comfort breed. | | | | |
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