| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 13. Proud in thy love, how many have I cited | | Anonymous |
| | | PROUD in thy love, how many have I cited, | |
| Impartial, thee to view! whose eyes have lavished | |
| Sweet beauteous objects oft have men delighted, | |
| But thou, above delight, their sense hast ravished! | |
| They, amorous artists, Thee pronounced Love’s Queen! | 5 |
| And unto thy supremacy did swear, | |
| “VENUS, at Paphos keep! no more be seen!” | |
| Now CUPID, after Thee, his shafts shall bear! | |
| How have I spent my spirit of Invention | |
| In penning amorous stanzas to thy beauty? | 10 |
| But heavenly graces may not brook dimension; | |
| No more may thine! for infinite they be. | |
| But now, in harsh tune, I, of amours sing, | |
| My pipe for them, grows hoarse! but shrill, to plaining! | | | | |
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