| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet IV. Did you sometimes three German brethren see | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | DID you sometimes three German brethren see; | |
| Rancour ’twixt two of them so raging rife, | |
| That th’one could stick the other with his knife? | |
| Now if the third assaulted chance to be | |
| By a fourth stranger; him set on the three! | 5 |
| Them two ’twixt whom afore was deadly strife, | |
| Made one to rob the stranger of his life. | |
| Then do you know our state as well as we! | |
| Beauty and Chastity, with her were born, | |
| Both at one birth; and up with her did grow. | 10 |
| Beauty, still foe to Chastity was sworn; | |
| And Chastity sworn to be Beauty’s foe: | |
| And yet when I lay siege unto her heart, | |
| Beauty and Chastity both take her part! | | | | |
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