| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet XXIV. Though they augmentors of my thraldom be | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | THOUGH they augmentors of my thraldom be: | |
| For her I live, and her I love and none else. | |
| O then, fair eyes, look mildly upon me! | |
| Who poor, despised, forlorn, must live alone else: | |
| And, like AMYNTAS, haunt the desert cells | 5 |
| (And moneyless there breathe out thy cruelty) | |
| Where none but Care and Melancholy dwell. | |
| I, for revenge, to NEMESIS will cry! | |
| If that will not prevail; my wandering ghost, | |
| Which breathless here this love-scorched trunk shall leave, | 10 |
| Shall unto thee, with tragic tidings post! | |
| How thy disdain did life from soul bereave. | |
| Then, all too late, my death thou wilt repent! | |
| When murder’s guilt, thy conscience shall torment. | | | | |
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