| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XLII. O thou that rulest in Ramnis golden gate | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | O THOU that rulest in Ramnis golden gate, | |
| Let pittie pierce the vnrelenting mind: | |
| Vnlade me of the burthen cruell fate, | |
| (Fell enuious fates too cruell and vnkind) | |
| Haue heapt vpon me by too froward loue, | 5 |
| Too froward loue the enemie of fortune: | |
| Whose fierce assaults my hart (too late) did proue, | |
| My sillie hart which sorrow did importune. | |
| Yet in thy power is my harts redeeming, | |
| My harts redeeming from vile thraldomes force: | 10 |
| Vile thrall to one my sorrowes not esteeming, | |
| Though shee be cruell yet haue thou remorce. | |
| Be thou to me no more inconstant variable, | |
| But let thy fickle wheele rest firme and stable. | | | | |
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