| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet L. Long languishing in double malady | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | LONG languishing in double malady | |
| Of my heart’s wound, and of my body’s grief; | |
| There came to me a leech, that would apply | |
| Fit medicines for my body’s best relief. | |
| Vain man, quoth I, that hast but little prief | 5 |
| In deep discovery of the mind’s disease; | |
| Is not the heart of all the body chief, | |
| And rules the members as itself doth please? | |
| Then, with some cordials, seek first to appease | |
| The inward languor of my wounded heart, | 10 |
| And then my body shall have shortly ease: | |
| But such sweet cordials pass physician’s art. | |
| Then, my life’s leech! do your skill reveal; | |
| And, with one salve, both heart and body heal. | | | | |
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