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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Zepheria

Canzon 16. How have I forfeited thy kind regard

Anonymous

HOW have I forfeited thy kind regard,

That thy disdain should thus enage thy brow!

Which, whilom, was the scripture and the card

Whereon thou made thy game, and sealed thy vow

Which, whilom, thou, with laurel vatical,

Ennobled hast (high signal of renown!),

Marrying my voice with thine, hast said withal,

“Be thou alone, alonely thou, AMPHION!”

O how hath black night welked up this day!

My wasted hopes, why are they turned to graze

In pastures of despair? ZEPHERIA say,

Wherein have I, on love committed trespass!

O, if in justice, thou must needs acquit me,

Reward me with thy love! Sweet, heal me with thy pity!