| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 1. Lulled in a heavenly Charm of pleasing Passions | | Anonymous |
| | | LULLED in a heavenly Charm of pleasing Passions; | |
| Many their well-thewed rhymes do fair attemper | |
| Unto their Amours! while another fashions | |
| Love to his lines, and he on Fame doth venture! | |
| And some again, in mercenary writ, | 5 |
| Belch forth Desire, making Reward their mistress! | |
| And though it chance some LAIS patron it, | |
| At least, they sell her praises to the press! | |
| The Muses’ Nurse, I read, is EUPHEMIE; | |
| And who but Honour makes his lines’ reward, | 10 |
| Comes not, by my consent, within my pedigree! | |
| ’Mongst true-born sons, inherit may no bastard! | |
| All in the humble accent of my Muse; | |
| Whose wing may not aspire the pitch of Fame, | |
| My griefs I here untomb! Sweet! them peruse! | 15 |
| Though low he fly, yet Honour is his game, | |
| All while my pen quests on ZEPHERIA’s name: | |
| Whom, when it sprung thy wing, did thee relieve; | |
| Now flown to mark, thus doth Desire thee retrieve! | | | | |
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