| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Third Decade
Sonnet I. Uncivil Sickness! hast thou no regard! | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | UNCIVIL Sickness! hast thou no regard! | |
| But dost presume my Dearest to molest! | |
| And without leave, dar’st enter in that breast, | |
| Whereto sweet Love approach yet never dared? | |
| Spare thou her health! which my life hath not spared. | 5 |
| Too bitter such revenge of my unrest. | |
| Although with wrongs, my thought she hath opprest; | |
| My wrongs seek not revenge, they crave reward. | |
| Cease Sickness! Cease in her then to remain! | |
| And come, and welcome! Harbour thou in me! | 10 |
| Whom love long since hath taught to suffer pain. | |
| So she which hath so oft my pain increased | |
| (O God, that I might so revengèd be), | |
| By my poor pain, might have her pain released. | | | | |
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