Sonnet 5

Mine Eye, mine ear, my will, my wit, my heart,

Did see, did hear, did like, discern, did love,

Her face, her speech, her fashion, judgment, art,

Which did charm, please, delight, confound, and move.

Then fancy, humor, love, conceit, and thought

Did so draw, force, entice, persuade, devise,

That she was won, mov'd, carried, compass'd, wrought,

To think me kind, true, comely, valiant, wise.

That heav’n, earth, hell, my folly and her pride

Did work, contrive, labor, conspire and swear

To make me scorn'd, vile, cast off, base, defied

With her my love, my light, my life, my dear;

So that my heart, my wit, will, ear, and eye,

Doth grieve, lament, sorrow, despair, and die.

— Gulling Sonnets

Sir John Davies

From Maurice Evans, ed. 1994. Elizabethan Sonnets, London: J. M. Dent, 197 (I have modernized the spelling.)