| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 37. When last mine eyes dislodgèd from thy beauty | | Anonymous |
| | | WHEN last mine eyes dislodgèd from thy beauty, | |
| Though served with Process of a parent’s Writ: | |
| A Supersedeas countermanding duty, | |
| Even then, I saw upon thy smiles to sit! | |
| Those smiles which me invited to a Party, | 5 |
| Disperpling clouds of faint respecting fear; | |
| Against the Summons which was served on me, | |
| A larger privilege of dispense did bear. | |
| Thine eyes’ edict, the Statute of Repeal, | |
| Doth other duties wholly abrogate, | 10 |
| Save such as thee endear in hearty zeal, | |
| Then be it far from me, that I should derogate | |
| From Nature’s Law, enregistered in thee! | |
| So might my love incur a Præmunire. | | | | |
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