| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 2. My heart was slain, and none but you and I? | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1599 (No. 51), and in all later editions.] |
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MY heart was slain, and none but you and I? | |
| Who should I think the murder should commit; | |
| Since but yourself, there was no creature by | |
| But only I, guiltless of murdering it? | |
| It slew itself? The verdict on the view | 5 |
| Do quit the dead, and me not accessory. | |
| Well, well! I fear it will be proved of you! | |
| Th’evidence so great a proof doth carry. | |
| But O see! See, we need inquire no further! | |
| Upon your lips, the scarlet drops are found! | 10 |
| And in your eye, the Boy that did the murder! | |
| Your cheeks yet pale, since first he gave the wound! | |
| By this I see, however things be past, | |
| Yet Heaven will still have murder out at last. | | | |
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