| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet XIV. Mournful Amyntas, thou didst pine with care | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | MOURNFUL AMYNTAS, thou didst pine with care, | |
| Because the Fates, by their untimely doom, | |
| Of life bereft thy loving PHILLIS fair; | |
| When thy love’s Spring did first begin to bloom. | |
| My care doth countervail that care of thine; | 5 |
| And yet my CHLORIS draws her angry breath: | |
| My hopes, still hoping, hopeless now repine; | |
| For living, She doth add to me but death. | |
| Thy PHILLIS dying, lovèd thee full dear. | |
| My CHLORIS living, hates poor CORIN’s love. | 10 |
| Thus doth my woe as great as thine appear; | |
| Though sundry accents both our sorrows move. | |
| Thy swan-like Song did shew thy dying anguish: | |
| These weeping Truce-men shew I living languish. | | | | |
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