| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XL. Injurious Fates! to rob me of my bliss | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | INJURIOUS Fates! to rob me of my bliss, | |
| And dispossess my heart of all his hope: | |
| You ought, with just revenge, to punish miss, | |
| For unto you the hearts of men are ope. | |
| Injurious Fates! that hardened have her heart, | 5 |
| Yet make her face to send out pleasing smiles: | |
| And both are done, but to increase my smart, | |
| And entertain my love with falsèd wiles. | |
| Yet being, when She smiles, surprised with joy, | |
| I fain would languish in so sweet a pain! | 10 |
| Beseeching death, my body to destroy; | |
| Lest, on the sudden, She should frown again. | |
| When men do wish for death, Fates have no force: | |
| But they, when men would live, have no remorse. | | | | |
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