| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Seventh Decade
Sonnet VII. Thou wilt persèver ever to disdain me | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | THOU wilt persèver ever to disdain me; | |
| And I shall then die; when thou will repent it: | |
| O do not therefore from complaint restrain me! | |
| And take my life from me, to me that lent it. | |
| For whilst these accents, weepingly exprest | 5 |
| In humble lines, of reverentest zeal, | |
| Have issue to complaint from mine unrest; | |
| They but thy beauty’s wonder shall reveal. | |
| And though the grieved Muse of some other lover, | |
| (Whose less devotions knew but woes like mine) | 10 |
| Would rather seek occasion to discover | |
| How little pitiful, and how much unkind; | |
| They other (not so worthy) beauties find. | |
| O, I not so; but seek, with humble prayer, | |
| Means how to move th’unmercifullest Fair. | 15 | | | |
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