| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XLV. Mine eye bewrays the secrets of my heart | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | MINE eye bewrays the secrets of my heart, | |
| My heart unfolds his grief before her face: | |
| Her face (bewitching pleasure of my smart!) | |
| Deigns not one look of mercy and of grace. | |
| My guilty eye of murder and of treason, | 5 |
| (Friendly conspirator of my decay, | |
| Dumb eloquence, the lover’s strongest reason!) | |
| Doth weep itself for anger quite away; | |
| And chooseth rather not to be, than be | |
| Disloyal, by too well discharging duty: | 10 |
| And being out, joys it no more can see | |
| The sugared charms of all deceiving Beauty, | |
| But (for the other greedily doth eye it), | |
| I pray you, tell me, What do I get by it? | | | | |
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