| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Fourth Decade
Sonnet I. Needs must I leave, and yet needs must I love! | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | NEEDS must I leave, and yet needs must I love! | |
| In vain my wit doth tell in verse my woe: | |
| Despair in me, disdain in thee, doth show | |
| How by my wit I do my folly prove. | |
| All this; my heart from love can never move. | 5 |
| Love is not in my heart. No, Lady! No, | |
| My heart is love itself. Till I forego | |
| My heart, I never can my love remove. | |
| How can I then leave love? I do intend | |
| Not to crave grace, but yet to wish it still; | 10 |
| Not to praise thee, but Beauty to commend: | |
| And so, by Beauty’s praise, praise thee I will! | |
| For as my heart is Love, love not in me: | |
| So Beauty thou, beauty is not in thee! | | | | |
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