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Parthenophil and Parthenophe

Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes [by Barnabe Barnes]

Barnes, Barnabe (1569?-1609)

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[Go barstard Orphan packe thee hence]

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SONNET XXXIIII.

SONNET XXXVIII.

SONNET LXXIIII.

SONNET LXXVIII.

SONNET LXXXIII.

SONNET LXXXIIII.

SONNET LXXXVII.

SONNET LXXXVIII.

MADRIGALL 20.

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ELEGIE V. To Parthenophil.

THE FIRST EIDILLION of moschus describing Loue.

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ODES PASTORALL.

CARMEN ANACREONTIVM.

ODE 20. ASCLEPIAD.

TO THE RIGHT NOBLE Lord, Henry Earle of Northumberland.

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MOST renowned and valiant, Robert Earle of Essex, and Ewe, &c.

TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND VERtuous Lord, Henry Earle of Southampton.

TO THE MOST VERTVOVS LEARned and bewtifull Lady Marie Countesse of Penbrooke.

TO THE RIGHT VERTVOVS AND most bewtifull Lady the Lady Straunge.

TO THE BEAVTIFVLL LADY THE Lady Brigett Manners.

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MADRIGALL 20.

[My loue alas is sicke, fye enuious sicknesse!]

My loue alas is sicke, fye enuious sicknesse!
That at her brest where rest all ioyes, and ease,

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Thou shouldst take such dispight, her to displease,
In whom, all vertues health hath quicknesse:
Thou durst not come in liuing licknesse,
For hadst thou come, thou couldst not her disease,
Her bewtie would not let the prease.
Sweet graces (which continually attend her)
At her short breath, breathe short, and sigh so deepe,
Which sicknesses sharpe furies might appease:
Both loues, and graces striue to mende her.
Oh neuer let me rest, but sigh, and weepe:
Neuer but weepe, and sigh, sicke is my loue,
And I loue-sicke, yet Phisicke may befrend her,
But what shall my disease remoue?