| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet LVI. Is Trust betrayed? Doth Kindness grow unkind? | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | IS Trust betrayed? Doth Kindness grow unkind? | |
| Can Beauty, both at once, give life and kill? | |
| Shall Fortune alter the most constant mind? | |
| Will Reason yield unto rebelling will? | |
| Doth Fancy purchase praise, and Virtue, shame? | 5 |
| May shew of Goodness lurk in treachery? | |
| Hath Truth unto herself procurèd blame? | |
| Must sacred Muses suffer misery? | |
| Are women woe to men, traps for their falls? | |
| Differ their words, their deeds; their looks, their lives? | 10 |
| Have lovers ever been their tennis balls? | |
| Be husbands fearful of the chastest wives? | |
| All men do these affirm; and so must I! | |
| Unless FIDESSA give to me the lie. | | | | |
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