| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Third Decade
Sonnet X. Of an Athenian young man have I read | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | OF an Athenian young man have I read, | |
| Who on blind FORTUNE’s picture doated so; | |
| That when he could not buy it to his bed, | |
| On it he gazing, died for very woe. | |
| My Fortune’s picture art thou, flinty Dame! | 5 |
| That settest golden apples to my sight; | |
| But wilt, by no means, let me taste the same! | |
| To drown in sight of land, is double spite. | |
| Of Fortune, as thou learn’dst to be unkind; | |
| So learn to be unconstant to disdain! | 10 |
| The wittiest women are to sport inclined. | |
| Honour is Pride, and Pride is nought but Pain. | |
| Let others boast of choosing for the best; | |
| ’Tis substances, not names must make us blest. | | | | |
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