| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 40. But if She shall attend what fortunes sequelled | | Anonymous |
| | | BUT if She shall attend what fortunes sequelled | |
| The naufrage of my poor afflicted bark; | |
| Then tell, but tell in words unsyllabled! | |
| In sighs’ untunèd accents, move her to hark | |
| Unto the tenour of thy sadder process! | 5 |
| Say then, “His tears (his heart’s intelligencers!) | |
| Did intimate the griefs did him possess. | |
| Crying, ZEPHERIA, unto thee! these messengers | |
| I send! O these, my loves, my faith shall witness! | |
| O these shall record loves and faith unfeignèd! | 10 |
| Look how my soul bathes in their innocency! | |
| Whose dying confidence him designs unstained | |
| Of guilty blush-note of impurity. | |
| (O Death! Highway to Life, when Love is distained!)” | |
| This said, if cruel She, no grace vouchsafe: | 15 |
Dead, may her Gravestone be her Epitaph!
Troppo sperar inganna.
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