| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Cœlia | | Sonnet II. O happy hour, and yet unhappy hour! | | William Percy (1575–1648) |
| | | O HAPPY hour, and yet unhappy hour! | |
| When first by chance I had my Goddess viewed; | |
| Then first I tasted of the sweetest sour | |
| Wherewith the cup of CYPRIA is embrued. | |
| For gazing firm without suspicion, | 5 |
| LOVE, cooped behind the chariot of her eye, | |
| Justly to school my bold presumption, | |
| Against my heart did let an arrow fly. | |
| “Fair Sir,” quoth he, “to practise have you nought | |
| But to be gazing on Divinity? | 10 |
| Before you part, your leare you shall be taught!” | |
| With that, at once, he made his arrows hie. | |
| “Imperious God! I did it not to love her! | |
| Ah, stay thy hand! I did it but to prove her!” | | | | |
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