| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 10. How made I, then, attempt in courtly fashion | | Anonymous |
| | | HOW made I, then, attempt in courtly fashion, | |
| To gain the virgin conquest of thy love? | |
| How did my sighs decipher inward Passion, | |
| When they to kind regard thy heart did move? | |
| When thou vouchsaf’st to grace the evening air, | 5 |
| How have I lain in ambush to betray thee? | |
| Our eyes have skirmished! but my tongue would pray thee | |
| To join thy Pity partner with thy Fair! | |
| Since that, how often have they sent wept Elegies | |
| To beg remorse at thy obdurate heart! | 10 |
| How often hath my Muse in comic poesies, | |
| To feed thy humour, played a comic part! | |
| But, now, the Pastime of my pen is silenced! | |
| To act in Tragic Vein, alone is licensed. | | | | |
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