Shake-speares Sonnets, Never before Imprinted/Sonnet 119
For other versions of this work, see Sonnet 119 (Shakespeare).
119What potions haue I drunke of Syren tearesDistil'd from Lymbecks foule as hell within,Applying feares to hopes, and hopes to feares,Still loosing when I saw my selfe to win?What wretched errors hath my heart committed,Whilst it hath thought it selfe so blessed neuer?How haue mine eies out of their Spheares bene fittedIn the distraction of this madding feuer?O benefit of ill, now I find trueThat better is, by euil still made better.And ruin'd loue when it is built anewGrowes fairer then at first, more strong, far greater.So I returne rebukt to my content,And gaine by ills thrise more then I haue spent.