| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Cœlia | | Sonnet VIII. Strike up, my Lute! and ease my heavy cares | | William Percy (1575–1648) |
| | | STRIKE up, my Lute! and ease my heavy cares, | |
| The only solace to my Passions: | |
| Impart unto the airs, thy pleasing airs! | |
| More sweet than heavenly consolations. | |
| Rehearse the songs of forlorn amor’us | 5 |
| Driven to despair by dames tyrannical! | |
| Of ALPHEUS’ loss, of woes of TROILUS, | |
| Of ROWLAND’s rage, of IPHIS’ funeral! | |
| Ay me! what warbles yields mine instrument! | |
| The Basses shriek as though they were amiss! | 10 |
| The Means, no means, too sad the merriment! | |
| No, no! the music good, but thus it is | |
| I loath both Means, merriment, Diapasons; | |
| So She and I may be but Unisons. | | | | |
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