| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet X. Unrighteous lord of love, what law is this | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | UNRIGHTEOUS lord of love, what law is this, | |
| That me thou makest thus tormented be, | |
| The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss | |
| Of her freewill, scorning both thee and me? | |
| See! how the tyranness doth joy to see | 5 |
| The huge massácres which her eyes do make; | |
| And humbled hearts brings captive unto thee, | |
| That thou of them mayst mighty vengeance take, | |
| But her proud heart do thou a little shake, | |
| And that high look, with which she doth control | 10 |
| All this world’s pride, bow to a baser make, | |
| And all her faults in thy black book enroll: | |
| That I may laugh at her in equal sort, | |
| As she doth laugh at me, and makes my pain her sport. | | | | |
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