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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 XIIII.

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 XIIII.

[Then him controlling, that he left vndonne]

Then him controlling, that he left vndonne
Her eyes bright circle thus did answere make,

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Restes mist with siluer cloude had clos'd her Sunne,
Nor could he draw them till she weare awake
Why then quoth I were not these leaues darke shade
Vpon her cheekes depainted, as you see them:
Shape of a shadow can not well be made
Was answer'd, for shades shadowes none can eye them.
This reason, proues, sure argument for me,
That my greefes image I can not set out:
Which might with liuely coloures blazed be.
Wherefore since nought, can bring the meanes about
That thou my sorrowes cause should vewe throughout,
Thou wilt not pitie me: but this was it.
Zeuxes had neither skill, nor colours fit.