Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 54
Of this worlds theatre in which we stay
My love like the spectator ydly sits
Beholding me that all the pageants play
Disguysing diversly my troubled wits
Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits
And mask in myrth lyke to a comedy:
Soone after when my joy to sorrow flits
I waile and make my woes a tragedy
Yet she, beholding me with constant eye
Delights not in my merth nor rues my smart:
But when I laugh she mocks, and when I cry
She laughs and hardens evermore her heart
What then can move her? if nor merth nor mone
She is no woman, but a senceless stone