| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Second Decade
Sonnet II. It may be, Love my death doth not pretend | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | IT may be, LOVE my death doth not pretend, | |
| Although he shoots at me: but thinks it fit | |
| Thus to bewitch thee for thy benefit! | |
| Causing thy will to my wish to condescend. | |
| For witches, which some murder do intend, | 5 |
| Do make a picture, and do shoot at it; | |
| And in that part where they the picture hit, | |
| The party’s self doth languish to his end. | |
| So LOVE, too weak by force thy heart to taint, | |
| Within my heart thy heavenly shape doth paint; | 10 |
| Suffering therein his arrows to abide, | |
| Only to th’end he might, by witches’ art, | |
| Within my heart, pierce through thy picture’s side; | |
| And through thy picture’s side, might wound my heart. | | | | |
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