| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXIX. Taking a truce with teares sweete pleasures foe | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | TAKING a truce with teares sweete pleasures foe, | |
| I thus began hard by the fountayne side: | |
| O deere copartner of my wretched woe, | |
| No sooner saide but woe poore eccho cride. | |
| Then I againe what woe did thee betide, | 5 |
| That can be greater than disdayne, disdayne: | |
| Quoth eccho. Then sayd I O womens pride, | |
| Pride answered echo. O inflicting payne, | |
| When wofull eccho payne agayne repeated, | |
| Redoubling sorrow with a sorrowing sound: | 10 |
| For both of vs were now in sorrow seated, | |
| Pride and disdaine disdainefull pride the ground. | |
| That forst poore Eccho mourne ay sorrowing euer, | |
| And me lament in teares ay ioyning 1 neuer. | |
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