| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Cœlia | | Sonnet XIV. When once I saw that no intreats would move her | | William Percy (1575–1648) |
| | | WHEN once I saw that no intreats would move her; | |
| All means I sought to be deliverèd: | |
| Against white CUPID and his golden Mother, | |
| In high contempt, base words I utterèd: | |
| When both, from clouds of her bright firmament, | 5 |
| With heavy griefs and strong disdain surmounted, | |
| Upon my thoughts and me, did shoot revengement, | |
| Whilst in our highest prides we were amounted. | |
| Nor be they pleased to give us all these wounds, | |
| To make me languish as a dying liver: | 10 |
| But from her orbs they fling their firebrands. | |
| Thereby to quite consume both heart and liver. | |
| Pardon, dread Powers! pardon my rash offence! | |
| By Heaven’s bright vail! ’twas ’gainst my conscience! | | | | |
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