| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 4. O then, Desire! Father of Jouissance! | | Anonymous |
| | | O THEN, Desire! Father of Jouissance! | |
| The Life of Love! the Death of dastard Fear! | |
| The Kindest Nurse to true persèverance! | |
| Mine heart inherited, with thy love’s revere. | |
| Beauty! peculiar Parent of Conceit! | 5 |
| Prosperous Midwife to a travelling Muse! | |
| The Sweet of life! NEPENTHE’s eyes receipt! | |
| Thee into me distilled, O Sweet, infuse! | |
| Love then (the spirit of a generous sprite! | |
| An infant ever drawing Nature’s breast! | 10 |
| The Sum of Life, that CHAOS did unnight!) | |
| Dismissed mine heart from me, with thee to rest. | |
| And now incites me cry, “Double! or quit! | |
| Give back my heart, or take his body to it!” | | | | |
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