When, unawares, myself on sands I found.

This is the point which most I do enforce!

That Love, without all pity or remorse,

Did suffer me to languish still in grief

Void of contentment, succour, or relief:

And when I looked my pains should be rewarded,

I did perceive, that they were nought regarded.

For why? Alas, these hapless eyes did see

Alcilia loved another more than me!

So in the end, when I expected most;