| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet LX. O let me sigh, weep, wail, and cry no more | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | O LET me sigh, weep, wail, and cry no more; | |
| Or let me sigh, weep, wail, cry more and more! | |
| Yea, let me sigh, weep, wail, cry evermore; | |
| For She doth pity my complaints no more | |
| Than cruel Pagan or the savage Moor: | 5 |
| But still doth add unto my torments more; | |
| Which grievous are to me by so much more | |
| As She inflicts them, and doth wish them more. | |
| O let thy mercy, Merciless! be never more! | |
| So shall sweet death to me be welcome, more | 10 |
| Than is to hungry beasts the grassy moor, | |
| As She that to affliction, adds yet more, | |
| Becomes more cruel by still adding more! | |
| Weary am I to speak of this word “more”; | |
| Yet never weary She, to plague me more! | 15 | | | |
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