Parthenophil and Parthenophe Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes [by Barnabe Barnes] |
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SONNET XLIII.
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SONNET XLIII.
[Now in my Zodiackes last extreamest signe]
Now in my Zodiackes last extreamest signe,My lucklesse sunne his happelesse mansion made,
And in the water willing more to wade
To Pisces did his chariot wheeles incline:
For me poore fish he with his golden lyne
Bayted with bewties, all the riuer lade:
(For who of such sweet baytes would stand afrade)
There nibbling for such foode as made me pyne,
Loues golden hooke on me tooke soddeine holde
Aud I downe swallow'd, that empoysened golde
Since then, deuise what any wisher can
Of fiercest tormentes, since all ioyes deuise,
Worse greefes, more ioyes did my true hart comprize,
Such were loues hates, my craftie fisher man.
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