| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 36. Thou purblind Boy! since thou hast been so slack | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1619.]
CUPID conjured
THOU purblind Boy! since thou hast been so slack | |
| To wound her heart, whose eyes have wounded me; | |
| And suffered her to glory in my wrack: | |
| Thus to my aid, I lastly conjure thee! | |
| By hellish Styx (by which the Thunderer swears)! | 5 |
| By thy fair Mother’s unavoided power! | |
| By HECATE’s names! by PROSERPINE’s sad tears, | |
| When she was rapt to the infernal bower! | |
| By thine own lovèd PSYCHE’s! by the fires | |
| Spent on thine altars, flaming up to heaven! | 10 |
| By all true lovers’ sighs, vows, and desires! | |
| By all the wounds that ever thou hast given! | |
| I conjure thee, by all that I have named, | |
| To make her love! or, CUPID, be thou damned! | | | | |
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