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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!

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?

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!