| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diella | | Sonnet II. Soon as the azure-coloured Gates of th’East | | Richard Linche (fl. 1596–1601) |
| | | SOON as the azure-coloured Gates of th’East | |
| were set wide open by the watchful Morn, | |
| I walked abroad, as having took no rest | |
| (for nights are tedious to a man forlorn); | |
| And viewing well each pearl-bedewèd flower, | 5 |
| then waxing dry by splendour of the sun: | |
| All scarlet-hued I saw him ’gin to lower | |
| and blush, as though some heinous act were done. | |
| At this amazed, I hied me home amain, | |
| thinking that I, his anger causèd had. | 10 |
| And at his set, abroad I walked again; | |
| when, lo, the moon looked wondrous pale and sad. | |
| Anger, the one; and envy moved the other, | |
| To see my Love more fair than LOVE’s fair mother. | | | | |
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