| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XX. My hart accus’d mine eies and was offended | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | MY hart accus’d mine eies and was offended, | |
| Vowing the cause was in mine eies aspiring: | |
| Mine eies affirmd my hart might well amend it, | |
| If he at first had banisht loues desiring. | |
| Hart said that loue did enter at the eies, | 5 |
| And from the eies descended to the hart: | |
| Eies said that in the hart did sparkes arise, | |
| Which kindled flame that wrought the inward smart, | |
| Hart said eies tears might soone haue quencht that fl[ame,] | |
| Eies said harts sighs at first might loue exile: | 10 |
| So hart the eies and eies the hart did blame, | |
| VVhilst both did pine for both the paine did feele. | |
| Hart sighed and bled, eies wept and gaz’d too much, | |
| Yet must I gaze because I see none such. | | | | |
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