| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet VIII. Grief-urging Guest! great cause have I to plain me | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | GRIEF-URGING Guest! great cause have I to plain me, | |
| Yet hope persuading hope expecteth grace, | |
| And saith, “None but myself shall ever pain me!” | |
| But grief, my hopes exceedeth, in this case. | |
| For still my fortune ever more doth cross me, | 5 |
| By worse events than ever I expected; | |
| And, here and there, ten thousand ways doth toss me, | |
| With sad remembrance of my time neglected. | |
| These breed such thoughts as set my heart on fire, | |
| And like fell hounds, pursue me to my death. | 10 |
| Traitors unto their sovereign Lord and Sire, | |
| Unkind exactors of their father’s breath. | |
| Whom, in their rage, they shall no sooner kill | |
| Than they themselves, themselves unjustly spill! | | | | |
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