| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The First Decade
Sonnet VI. Mine eye with all the deadly sins is fraught | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | MINE eye with all the deadly sins is fraught. | |
| 1. First proud, sith it presumed to look so high. | |
| A watchman being made, stood gazing by; | |
| 2. And idle, took no heed till I was caught. | |
| 3. And envious, bears envy that by thought, | 5 |
| Should in his absence, be to her so nigh. | |
| To kill my heart, mine eye let in her eye; | |
| 4. And so consent gave to a murder wrought. | |
| 5. And covetous, it never would remove | |
| From her fair hair. Gold so doth please his sight! | 10 |
| 6. Unchaste, a baud between my heart and love. | |
| 7. A glutton eye, with tears drunk every night. | |
| These sins procurèd have a goddess’ ire: | |
| Wherefore my heart is damned in love’s sweet fire. | | | | |
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