| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 11. How wert thou pleasèd with my Pastoral Ode! | | Anonymous |
| | | HOW wert thou pleasèd with my Pastoral Ode! | |
| Which late I sent thee; wherein I, thy Swain, | |
| In rural tune, on pipe did chaunt abroad | |
| Thee, for the loveliest Lass that traced the plain. | |
| There, on thy head, I, FLORA’s Chaplet placed! | 5 |
| There, did my pipe proclaim thee, Summer’s Queen! | |
| Each herdgroom, with that honour held thee graced! | |
| When lawny white did chequer with thy green. | |
| There, did I bargain all my kids to thee! | |
| My spotted lambkins, choicest of my fold! | 10 |
| So thou would’st sit and keep thy flock by me: | |
| So much I joyed, thy beauty to behold. | |
| How many Cantons then, sent I to thee! | |
| Who, though on two strings only raised their strain, | |
| To wit, my Grief, and thy unmatched Beauty; | 15 |
| Yet well their harmony could please thy vein! | |
| Well could they please thee, and thou term them witty; | |
| But now as fortunes change, so change my Ditty! | | | | |
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