| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XLIV. No choice of change can ever change my mind! | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | NO choice of change can ever change my mind! | |
| Choiceless my choice, the choicest choice alive: | |
| Wonder of women, were She not unkind: | |
| The pitiless of pity to deprive. | |
| Yet She, the kindest creature of her kind, | 5 |
| Accuseth me of self-ingratitude: | |
| And well She may! Sith, by good proof I find | |
| Myself had died, had She not helpful stood. | |
| For when my sickness had the upper hand, | |
| And death began to show his awful face; | 10 |
| She took great pains, my pains for to withstand; | |
| And eased my heart that was in heavy case. | |
| But cruel now, she scorneth what it craveth: | |
| Unkind in kindness, murdering while she saveth! | | | | |
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