Parthenophil and Parthenophe Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes [by Barnabe Barnes] |
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SONNET XLIIII.
[Oh dart and thunder whose fierce violence]
Oh dart and thunder whose fierce violence30
Can neuer be set out in eloquence,
Whose might all mettles masse a sonder moultes:
Where be they famous Prophetes of ould Greece?
Those anchiant Romaine Poetes of acompt,
Musæus which went for the Golden Fleece
With Iason, and did Heroes loues recompt
And thou sweet Naso with thy golden vearse
Whose louely spirite rauish't Cæsars daughter,
And that sweet Tuskane Petrarke which did pearse
His Laura with loue Sonnets when he saught her:
Where be these all? that all these might hauē taught her
That sainctes deuine are knowne sainctes by their mercy,
And sainctlike bewtie should not rage with pearse eye.
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