| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet II. Unquiet thought! whom at the first I bred | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | UNQUIET thought! whom at the first I bred | |
| Of th’ inward bale of my love-pined heart; | |
| And sithens have with sighs and sorrows fed, | |
| Till greater than my womb thou woxen art: | |
| Break forth at length out of the inner part, | 5 |
| In which thou lurkest like to viper’s brood; | |
| And seek some succour both to ease my smart, | |
| And also to sustain thyself with food. | |
| But, if in presence of that fairest proud | |
| Thou chance to come, fall lowly at her feet; | 10 |
| And, with meek humbless and afflicted mood, | |
| Pardon for thee, and grace for me, entreat: | |
| Which if she grant, then live, and my love cherish: | |
| If not, die soon; and I with thee will perish. | | | | |
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