| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XXV. Compare me to Pygmalion with his Image ’sotted! | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | COMPARE me to PYGMALION with his Image ’sotted! | |
| For (as was he) even so, am I deceived. | |
| The shadow only is to me allotted, | |
| The substance hath of substance me bereaved. | |
| Then poor and helpless, must I wander still | 5 |
| In deep laments to pass succeeding days, | |
| Welt’ring in woes, that poor and mighty kill. | |
| O who is mighty, that so soon decays! | |
| The dread Almighty hath appointed so, | |
| The final period of all worldly things. | 10 |
| Then as in time they come, so must they go. | |
| (Death common is to beggars and to kings) | |
| For whither do I run beside my text? | |
| I run to death, for death must be the next! | | | | |
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