| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XV. Care-charmer Sleep! Sweet ease in restless misery! | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | CARE-CHARMER Sleep! Sweet ease in restless misery! | |
| The captive’s liberty, and his freedom’s song! | |
| Balm of the bruised heart! Man’s chief felicity! | |
| Brother of quiet Death, when life is too too long! | |
| A Comedy it is! and now an History! | 5 |
| What is not sleep unto the feeble mind? | |
| It easeth him that toils, and him that’s sorry! | |
| It makes the deaf to hear; to see, the blind! | |
| Ungentle Sleep! thou helpest all but me! | |
| For when I sleep, my soul is vexèd most. | 10 |
| It is FIDESSA that doth master thee! | |
| If She approach; alas, thy power is lost! | |
| But here She is! See, how he runs amain! | |
| I fear, at night, he will not come again. | | | | |
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