| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet LIV. If great Apollo offered as a dower | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | IF great Apollo offered as a dower, | |
| His burning throne to Beauty’s excellence; | |
| If JOVE himself came in a golden shower, | |
| Down to the earth, to fetch fair IO thence; | |
| If VENUS, in the curlèd locks was tied | 5 |
| Of proud ADONIS, not of gentle kind; | |
| If TELLUS, for a shepherd’s favour died, | |
| (The favour cruel Love to her assigned); | |
| If Heaven’s-winged herald HERMES had | |
| His heart enchanted with a country maid; | 10 |
| If poor PYGMALION was for beauty mad: | |
| If gods and men have all for beauty strayed: | |
| I am not then ashamed to be included | |
| ’Mongst those that love, and be with love deluded. | | | | |
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