| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet L. When I the hooks of pleasure first devoured | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | WHEN I the hooks of pleasure first devoured, | |
| Which undigested, threaten now to choke me; | |
| Fortune on me, her golden graces showered: | |
| O then Delight did to delight provoke me! | |
| Delight, false instrument of my decay! | 5 |
| Delight the nothing that doth all things move; | |
| Made me first wander from the perfect way, | |
| And fast entangled me in the snares of love. | |
| Then my unhappy happiness, at first, began, | |
| Happy in that I loved the fairest Fair; | 10 |
| Unhappily despised, a hapless man: | |
| Thus Joy did triumph! Triumph did despair! | |
| My conquest is, which shall the conquest gain? | |
| FIDESSA, author both of joy and pain! | | | | |
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