Edmund Spenser - Sonnet 54 lyrics

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