| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet XXXVI. Tell me, when shall these weary woes have end | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | TELL me, when shall these weary woes have end, | |
| Or shall their ruthless torment never cease; | |
| But all my days in pining languor spend, | |
| Without hope of assuagement or release? | |
| Is there no means for me to purchase peace, | 5 |
| Or make agreement with her thrilling eyes; | |
| But that their cruelty doth still increase, | |
| And daily more augment my miseries? | |
| But, when ye have shown all extremities, | |
| Then think how little glory ye have gained | 10 |
| By slaying him, whose life, though ye despise, | |
| Might have your life in honour long maintained. | |
| But by his death, which some perhaps will moan, | |
| Ye shall condemned be of many a one. | | | | |
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