| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 25. Let not Disdain, thy soul unsanctify! | | Anonymous |
| | | LET not Disdain, thy soul unsanctify! | |
| Disdain, the passport for a lover’s vow! | |
| Unsieging, where its seeks to fortify | |
| With deadly frowns, the canons of the brow! | |
| Let not Disdain (the Hearse of virgin Graces! | 5 |
| The Counterpoison to unchastity! | |
| The Leaven that doth sour the sweetest faces!) | |
| Stain thy new purchased immortality! | |
| ’Mongst Delian nymphs, in Angels’ University, | |
| Thou, my ZEPHERIA, liv’st matriculated! | 10 |
| The daughters of ethereal JOVE, thy deity | |
| On holy hill, have aye perpetuated! | |
| O then, retire thy brows’ artillery! | |
| Love more! and more bliss yet, shall honour thee! | | | | |
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