VIII.
My case is this, I love Zepheria bright,
Of her I hold my heart by fealty
Which I discharge to her perpetually,
Yet she thereof will never me acquit.
For now supposing I withhold her right,
She hath distrained my heart to satisfy
The duty which I never did deny,
And far away impounds it with despite.
I labour therefore justly to repleve
My heart which she unjustly doth impound,
But quick conceit which now is love's high shrieve
Returns it as esloined, not to be found;
Then, which the law affords, I only crave
Her heart for mine in withernam to have.
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 Neroccio. Portrait of a Lady, 1490.
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