| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diella | | Sonnet XX. The strongest pine, that Queen Feronia hath | | Richard Linche (fl. 1596–1601) |
| | | THE STRONGEST pine, that Queen FERONIA hath, | |
| growing within her woody empiry, | |
| Is soon thrown down by BOREAS’ wintry wrath, | |
| if one root only his supporter be. | |
| The tallest ship that cuts the angry wave, | 5 |
| and plows the seas of SATURN’s second sun, | |
| If but one anchor for a journey have, | |
| when that is lost, ’gainst every rock doth run. | |
| I am that pine, fair Love! that ship am I! | |
| and thou, that anchor art and root to me! | 10 |
| If then thou fail (O fail not!) I must die! | |
| and pine away in endless misery! | |
| But words prevail not! nor can sighs devise | |
| To move thy heart, if bent to tyrannize. | | | | |
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