Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
FidessaSonnet XI. Winged with sad woes, why doth fair Zephyr blow
Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602)W
Upon my face (the map of discontent)?
Is it to have the weeds of sorrow grow
So long and thick, that they will ne’er be spent?
“No, fondling! No! It is to cool the fire
Which hot Desire within thy breast hath made.
Check him but once, and he will soon retire!”
O but he sorrows brought which cannot fade.
“The sorrows that he brought, he took from thee,
Which fair F
Yet hath she nothing done of cruelty,
By (for her sake) to try what thou wilt bear!”
Come, sorrows! come! You are to me assigned!
I’ll bear you all! It is F