| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Jealousy | | Anonymous |
| | | A SEEING 1 friend, yet enemy to rest; | |
| A wrangling passion, yet a gladsome thought; | |
| A bad companion, yet a welcome guest; | |
| A knowledge wished, yet found too soon unsought: | |
| From heaven supposed, yet sure condemned to hell | 5 |
| Is jealousy, and there forlorn doth dwell. | |
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| And thence doth send fond fear and false suspect | |
| To haunt our thoughts, bewitchèd with mistrust; | |
| Which breeds in us the issue and effect | |
| Both of conceits and actions far unjust; | 10 |
| The grief, the shame, the smart whereof doth prove | |
| That jealousy’s both death and hell to love. | |
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| For what but hell moves in the jealous heart, | |
| Where restless fear works out all wanton joys, | |
| Which doth both quench and kill the loving part, | 15 |
| And cloys the mind with worse than known annoys, | |
| Whose pressure far exceeds hell’s deep extremes? | |
| Such life leads Love, entangled with misdeems. | |
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