| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 12. How often have mine eyes (thine eye’s apprentice | | Anonymous |
| | | HOW often have mine eyes (thine eye’s apprentice | |
| Bound by the Earnest of a sunny look), | |
| Ta’en a judicial view of all thy graces! | |
| Which here are registered in lasting book. | |
| How oft have I, thy precious chain been fingering, | 5 |
| That ninefold circles thy delicious neck! | |
| While they, the orb-like spheres of heaven resembling, | |
| Thy face the Globe! which men clep Emperick. | |
| How oft with wanton touches have I prest | |
| Those breasts, more soft than silver down of swans; | 10 |
| When they by Alcidelian springs do rest! | |
| Of which pure substance are thy lily hands. | |
| But now, though eyes ne see, nor arms embrace thee; | |
| Who yet shall let, in thought, me chief to place thee? | | | | |
|
|
