| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XLIX. Diana and her nimphs in siluane brooke | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | DIANA and her nimphs in siluane brooke, | |
| Did wash themselues in secret farre apart: | |
| But bold Acteon dard on them to looke, | |
| For which faire Phœbe turnd him to a Hart. | |
| His hounds vnweeting of his sodaine change, | 5 |
| Did hale and pull him downe with open crie: | |
| He then repenting that he so did range, | |
| Would speake but could not, so did sigh and die. | |
| But my Diana fairer and more cruel, | |
| Bereft me of my hart and in disdaine: | 10 |
| Hath turnd it out to feede on fancies fuel, | |
| And liue in bondage and eternal paine. | |
| So hartles doe I liue yet cannot die, | |
| Desire the dog, doth chase it to and fro: | |
| Vnto her brest for succour it doth flie, | 15 |
| If shee debarre it whither shall it go. | |
| Now liues my hart in danger to be slaine, | |
| Vnlesse her hart my hart wil entertaine. | | | | |
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