| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet XLIV. Cruel fair Love! I justly do complain | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | CRUEL fair Love! I justly do complain | |
| Of too much rigour, and thy heart unkind; | |
| That, for mine eyes, thou hast my body slain: | |
| And would not grant that I should favour find. | |
| I looked, fair Love! and you my Love looked fair. | 5 |
| I sighed for love, and you for sport did smile. | |
| Your smiles were such as did perfume the air; | |
| And this perfumèd, did my heart beguile. | |
| Thus I confess the fault was in mine eyes, | |
| Begun with sighs, and endèd with a flame. | 10 |
| I, for your love, did all the world despise; | |
| And in these Poems honoured have your name. | |
| Then let your love so with my fault dispense, | |
| That all my parts feel not mine eyes’ offence. | | | | |
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