| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet XXVI. Though you be fair and beautiful withal | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | THOUGH you be fair and beautiful withal; | |
| And I am black, for which you me despise: | |
| Know that your beauty subject is to fall! | |
| Though you esteem it at so high a price. | |
| And time may come when that whereof you boast, | 5 |
| Which is your youth’s chief wealth and ornament, | |
| Shall withered be by winter’s raging frost; | |
| When beauty’s pride and flowering years are spent. | |
| Then wilt thou mourn! when none shall thee respect. | |
| Then wilt thou think how thou hast scorned my tears! | 10 |
| Then, pitiless, each one will thee neglect; | |
| When hoary grey shall dye thy yellow hairs. | |
| Then wilt thou think upon poor CORIN’s case! | |
| Who loved thee dear, yet lived in thy disgrace. | | | | |
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