William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
A RecantationAnonymous
O L
The court of pleasures, paradise of rest,
Without whose circuit all things bitter prove,
Within whose ceinture every wretch is blest:
O grant me pardon, sacred deity,
I do recant my former heresy!
Whom love I did, and do, and always will:
O pardon what my coy disdain hath wrought,
My coy disdain, the author of this ill:
And for the pride that I have show’d before,
By Love I swear I’ll love thee ten times more.