| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 7. More fair, but yet more cruel I thee deem | | Anonymous |
| | | MORE fair, but yet more cruel I thee deem | |
| (Though by how much the more thou beauteous art, | |
| So much of pity shouldst thou more esteem!); | |
| Fairer than PHŒBE, yet a harder heart. | |
| Her when ACTÆON viewed with privy eye, | 5 |
| She doomed him but a death (a death he owed!), | |
| While he pursued, before his dogs did fly. | |
| Here was the worst of ill (good Queen!) she shewed. | |
| But when, a start, mine eye had thee espied | |
| Though at discovert, yet stand I sentenced | 10 |
| Not to one death, to which I would have hied: | |
| For since, unarmed, and to eye unfenced, | |
| Thy PHŒBE-fairer parts were mine eyes’ prospective. | |
| O grief! unto myself, disgraced I live! | | | | |
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