Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | The Tears of Fancie | Sonnet LVIII. When as I marke the ioy of euery wight | Thomas Watson (15551592) |
| WHEN as I marke the ioy of euery wight, | |
Howe in their mindes deepe throbbing sorrow ceaseth | |
And by what meanes they nourish their delight, | |
Their sweet delight my paine the more increaseth. | |
For as the Deare that sees his fellow feede, | 5 |
Amid the lusty heard, himselfe sore brused: | |
Or as the bird that feeles her selfe to bleede, | |
And lies aloofe of all her pheeres refused. | |
So haue I found and now too deerely trie, | |
That pleasure doubleth paine and blisse annoy: | 10 |
Yet still I twit my selfe of Surcuidrie, | |
As one that am vnworthy to inioy. | |
The lasting frute of such a heauenly loue, | |
For whom these endles sorrowes I approue. | | | |
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