| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXVIII. Fast flowing teares from watery eies abounding | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | FAST flowing teares from watery eies abounding, | |
| In tract of time by sorrow so constrained: | |
| And framd a fountaine in which Eccho founding, | |
| The’nd of my plaints (vaine plaints of Loue disdained.) | |
| VVhen to the wel of mine owne eies weeping, | 5 |
| I gan repaire renewing former greeuing: | |
| And endles moane Eccho me companie keeping, | |
| Her vnreuealed woe my woe reuealing. | |
| My sorrowes ground was on her sorrow grounded, | |
| The Lad was faire but proud that her perplexed: | 10 |
| Her harts deepe wound was in my hart deepe wounded, | |
| Faire and too proud is she that my hart vexed. | |
| But faire and too proud must release harts pining, | |
| Or hart must sigh and burst with ioies declining. | | | | |
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