| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diella | | Sonnet XXXV. End this enchantment, Love! of my desires! | | Richard Linche (fl. 1596–1601) |
| | | END this enchantment, Love! of my desires! | |
| let me no longer languish for thy love! | |
| Joy not, to see me thus consume in fires! | |
| but let my cruel pains, thy hard heart move! | |
| And now, at last, with pitiful regard, | 5 |
| eye me, thy lover! ’lorn for lack of thee! | |
| Which, dying, lives in hope of sweet reward, | |
| which hate hath hitherto withheld from me. | |
| Constant have I been, still in Fancy fast, | |
| ordained by heavens to doat upon my Fair, | 10 |
| Nor will I e’er, so long as life shall last, | |
| say any “’s fairer! breathing vital air.” | |
| But when the ocean sands shall lie unwet; | |
| That shall my soul, to love thee, Dear! forget! | | | | |
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