| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 18. Exacter, should it fortune I should pencil thee | | Anonymous |
| | | EXACTER, should it fortune I should pencil thee; | |
| What glory may attend though on my skill? | |
| Even such as him befalls, whose pen doth copy | |
| The sweet invention of another’s quill. | |
| My Muse yet never journeyed to the Indes, | 5 |
| Thy Fair to purple in Alchermyan dye, | |
| All on the weak spread of his eyes’ wings | |
| Sufficeth that thou mount, though not so high! | |
| Yet should it hap, that, in a kind vouchsafe, | |
| The feature of my pen some grace do win; | 10 |
| Thereof, ZEPHERIA all the honour hath! | |
| The copying scribe may claim no right therein: | |
| But if more nice wits censure my lines crooked, | |
| Thus I excuse, “I wrote, my light removed!” | | | | |
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