| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Cœlia | | Sonnet VI. Good God! how senseless be we paramours | | William Percy (1575–1648) |
| | | GOOD God! how senseless be we paramours, | |
| So proudly on a Nothing for to vaunt it! | |
| We cannot reap the meanest of all favours, | |
| But, by-and-by, we think our suit is grantit! | |
| Had ye observed two Planets which then mounted, | 5 |
| Two certain signs of indignation; | |
| Ye would have deemed rather both consented | |
| To turn all hopes to desperation. | |
| Then can you waver so inconstantly | |
| To shew first Love, and then Disdainfulness? | 10 |
| First for to bring a dram of courtesy, | |
| Then mix it with an ounce of scornfulness? | |
| No, no, the doubt is answered! Certainly, | |
| She trod by chance; She trod not wittingly! | | | | |
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