| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet V. Love, with her hair, my Love by force hath tied | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | LOVE, with her hair, my Love by force hath tied; | |
| To serve her lips, her eyes, her voice, her hand. | |
| I smiled for joy when I the boy espied | |
| To lie unchained, and live at her command. | |
| She, if She look, or kiss, or sing, or smile; | 5 |
| CUPID withal doth smile, doth sing, doth kiss. | |
| Lips, hands, voice, eyes, all hearts that may beguile; | |
| Because She scorns, all hearts but only this. | |
| VENUS for this in pride began to frown, | |
| That CUPID, born a god, inthralled should be: | 10 |
| She, in disdain, her pretty son threw down; | |
| And in his place, with love she chainèd me. | |
| So now, sweet Love, tho’ I myself be thrall; | |
| Not her a goddess, but thyself, I call. | | | | |
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