| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 20. How often hath my pen (mine heart’s Solicitor!) | | Anonymous |
| | | HOW often hath my pen (mine heart’s Solicitor!) | |
| Instructed thee in Breviat of my case! | |
| While Fancy-pleading eyes (thy beauty’s Visitor!) | |
| Have patterned to my quill, an angel’s face. | |
| How have my Sonnets (faithful Counsellors!) | 5 |
| Thee, without ceasing moved for Day of Hearing! | |
| While they, my Plaintive Cause (my faith’s Revealers!) | |
| Thy long delay, my patience, in thine ear ring. | |
| How have I stood at bar of thine own conscience; | |
| When in Requesting Court my suit I brought! | 10 |
| How have thy long adjournments slowed the sentence, | |
| Which I (through much expense of tears) besought! | |
| Through many difficulties have I run, | |
| Ah, sooner wert thou lost, I wis, than won! | | | | |
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