| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet IV. Love and my Love did range the forest wild | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | LOVE and my Love did range the forest wild, | |
| Mounted alike upon swift coursers both. | |
| LOVE her encountered, though he was a child, | |
| “Let’s strive!” said he. Whereat my Love was wroth; | |
| And scorned the boy, and checked him with a smile. | 5 |
| “I mounted am, and armèd with my spear. | |
| Thou art too weak! Thyself do not beguile! | |
| I could thee conquer, if I naked [unarmed] were!” | |
| With this LOVE wept, and then my Love replied: | |
| “Kiss me, sweet boy, so! Weep, my boy, no more!” | 10 |
| Thus did my Love, and thus her force she tried: | |
| LOVE was made ice, that fire was before. | |
| A kiss of hers (as I, poor soul, do prove) | |
| Can make the hottest, freeze; and coldest love. | | | | |
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