| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 46. Plain pathed Experience (th’ unlearned’s guide) | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1605 (No. 46), and in all later editions.] |
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PLAIN pathed Experience (th’ unlearned’s guide), | |
| Her simple followers evidently shews | |
| Sometimes what Schoolmen scarcely can decide, | |
| Nor yet wise Reason absolutely knows. | |
| In making trial of a murder wrought, | 5 |
| If the vile actors of the heinous deed | |
| Near the dead body happily be brought, | |
| Oft ’t hath been proved, the breathless corse will bleed. | |
| She coming near, that my poor heart hath slain, | |
| Long since departed (to the World no more), | 10 |
| Th’ ancient wounds no longer can contain, | |
| But fall to bleeding, as they did before. | |
| But what of this! Should She to death be led, | |
| It furthers Justice; but helps not the dead! | | | |
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