| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XXXIV. Fie, Pleasure! fie! Thou cloy’st me with delight | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | FIE, Pleasure! fie! Thou cloy’st me with delight; | |
| Sweet thoughts, you kill me, if you lower stray! | |
| O many be the joys of one short night! | |
| Tush, fancies never can Desire allay! | |
| Happy, unhappy thoughts! I think, and have not. | 5 |
| Pleasure, O pleasing plain! Shews nought avail me! | |
| Mine own conceit doth glad me, more I crave not! | |
| Yet wanting substance, woe doth still assail me. | |
| “Babies do children please! and shadows, fools!” | |
| “Shews have deceived the wisest, many a time!” | 10 |
| “Ever to want our wish, our courage cools!” | |
| “The ladder broken, ’tis in vain to climb.” | |
| But I must wish, and crave, and seek, and climb; | |
| It’s hard, if I obtain not grace in time! | | | | |
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