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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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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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ODE 20. ASCLEPIAD.

O sweet pittilesse eye, bewtifull, Orient!

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(Since my faith is a rocke, durable euery where:)
Smile, and shine with a glaunce, hartely me to ioye,
Bewtie taketh a place, pittie regardes it not:
Vertue findeth a throane, settled in euery part:
Pittie founde none at all, banished euery where.
Since then bewtie triumphes, chastities enemy:
And vertue cleped is, much to be pittifull:
And since that thy delight, is euer vertuous:
My teares (Parthenophe) pittie, be pittifull,
So shall men the repute great, as an holy Saint:
So shall bewtie remaine, mightely glorified:
So thy fame shall abounde, durably chronicled:
Then sweet (Parthenophe) pittie, be mercifull.