| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet LVII. The hunted Hare sometime doth leaue the Hound | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | THE HUNTED Hare sometime doth leaue the Hound, | |
| My Hart alas is neuer out of chace: | |
| The liue-hounds life sometime is yet vnbound, | |
| My bands are hopeles of so high a grace. | |
| For natures sickenes sometimes may haue ease, | 5 |
| Fortune though fickle sometime is a friend: | |
| The minds affliction patience may appease, | |
| And death is cause that many torments end. | |
| Yet I am sicke, but shee that should restore me, | |
| VVithholds the sacred flame that would recure me: | 10 |
| And fortune eke (though many eyes deplore me,) | |
| Nill lend such chance that might to ioy procure me. | |
| Patience wants power to appease my weeping, | |
| And death denies what I haue long beene seeking. | | | | |
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