| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 35. Since from the flowered sweets of every blessedness | | Anonymous |
| | | SINCE from the flowered sweets of every blessedness, | |
| Which from thy beauties delicate peruse | |
| Incessantly doth flow, mine heart, like anch’ress | |
| Aye cloistered, lives to sad and cheerless Muse. | |
| If any smiling joy fortune to fawn on me, | 5 |
| Suggesting to my spirit sweet content: | |
| Anon, I article with his felicity; | |
| And ere mine heart vouchsafes him entertainment, | |
| I him depose, on these Interrogatories. | |
| First, “If he came from my ZEPHERIA?” | 10 |
| Then, “If he may to light restore mine eyes, | |
| Which long have dwelt in dark?” If then, he say, | |
| “Nay! but thy thoughts to unbend from off her beauties, | |
| I come!” eftsoons, I strangle him while in his infancy, | |
| Better slay him, than he do thee to die! | 15 | | | |
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