| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet XXI. “Being likewise scorned in love as well as I” | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | “BEING likewise scorned in love as well as I” | |
| By that self-loving Boy; which did disdain | |
| To hear her, after him for love to cry: | |
| For which in dens obscure she doth remain. | |
| Yet doth she answer to each speech and word | 5 |
| And renders back the last of what we speak. | |
| But ’specially, if she might have her choice, | |
| She of “Unkindness” would her talk forth break. | |
| She loves to hear of Love’s most sacred name; | |
| Although, poor Nymph, in love she was despised: | 10 |
| And ever since she hides her head for shame, | |
| That her true meaning was so lightly prized. | |
| She, pitying me, part of my woes doth hear; | |
| As you, good Shepherds, list’ning now shall hear. | | | | |
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