| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Mark Alexander Boyd. 1563–1601 |
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| 114. Sonet |
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| FRA bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin, | |
| Ourhailit with my feeble fantasie; | |
| Like til a leaf that fallis from a tree, | |
| Or til a reed ourblawin with the win. | |
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| Twa gods guides me: the ane of tham is blin, | 5 |
| Yea and a bairn brocht up in vanitie; | |
| The next a wife ingenrit of the sea, | |
| And lichter nor a dauphin with her fin. | |
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| Unhappy is the man for evermair | |
| That tills the sand and sawis in the air; | 10 |
| But twice unhappier is he, I lairn, | |
| That feidis in his hairt a mad desire, | |
| And follows on a woman throw the fire, | |
| Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn. | |
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