| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Second Decade
Sonnet VI. Wonder it is, and pity is’t, that she | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | WONDER it is, and pity is’t, that she | |
| In whom all beauty’s treasure we may find, | |
| That may enrich the body and the mind; | |
| Towards the poor, should use no charity. | |
| My love has gone a begging unto thee! | 5 |
| And if that Beauty had not been more kind | |
| That Pity, long ere this, he had been pined: | |
| But Beauty is content his food to be. | |
| O pity have! when such poor orphans beg. | |
| LOVE (naked boy!) hath nothing on his back; | 10 |
| And though he wanteth neither arm nor leg, | |
| Yet maimed he is, sith he his sight doth lack. | |
| And yet (though blind) he beauty can behold, | |
| And yet (though naked) he feels more heat than cold. | | | | |
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