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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.

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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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SONNET LXXVIII.

[The proudest Planet in his highest Spheare]

The proudest Planet in his highest Spheare,
Saturne inthronist in thy frowning browes:
Next aufull Ioue thy maiestie doth beare:
And vnto dreadfull Mars, thy courage bowes,
Drawne from thy noble grandfathers of might:
Among'st the laurell crowned Poetes sweete,
And sweet Musitions take the place by right:
For Phoebus with thy graces thought it meete:
Venus doth sit vpon thy lippes, and chinne:
And Hermes hath inrich't thy wittes deuine:
Phoebe with chast desiers thine hart did winne:
The Planettes thus to thee their powers resigne.

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Whom Planets honour thus is any such?
My muse then can not honour her too much.