| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Fifth Decade
Sonnet II. I do not now complain of my disgrace | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | I DO not now complain of my disgrace, | |
| O Cruel Fair One! Fair with cruel crost: | |
| Nor of the hour, season, time, nor place; | |
| Nor of my foil, for any freedom lost; | |
| Nor of my courage, by misfortune daunted; | 5 |
| Nor of my wit, by overweening struck; | |
| Nor of my sense, by any sound enchanted; | |
| Nor of the force of fiery pointed hook; | |
| Nor of the steel that sticks within my wound; | |
| Nor of my thoughts, by worser thoughts defaced; | 10 |
| Nor of the life, I labour to confound: | |
| But I complain, that being thus disgraced, | |
| Fired, feared, frantic, fettered, shot through, slain; | |
| My death is such, as I may not complain. | | | | |
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