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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Zepheria

Canzon 6. My fate! O not my fault! hath me debarred

Anonymous

MY fate! O not my fault! hath me debarred

From forth thy favour’s sunny sanctuary,

Unto the dear applause of thy regard,

Witness the world! how I, my guest did marry!

My tears, my sighs; all have I summed in thee!

Conceit the total! do not partialise!

And then accept of their infinity

As part of payment to exacting eyes!

And yet thy Trophy to ennoble more,

My heart prepares anew to thesaurise

Sighs and love options such as it sent of yore,

Save number they! faith only these englories!

Yet though I thus enwealthy thy exchequer;

Seem it not strange, I live ZEPHERIA’s debtor!