| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Sonnet VII | | V. Barnaby Barnes |
| | | WHITE spotlesse Lambe! whose precious sweete bloudshed | |
| The whole world’s sinneful debt hath satisfied, | |
| For sinners scorn’d, whippde, wounded, crucified; | |
| Beholde my sinfull soule by Sathan led | |
| Even to the gates of hell, where will be read | 5 |
| My Conscience’s blacke booke; unlesse supplide | |
| Be to those leaves past number thy wounds wide, | |
| Whose purple issue, which for sinners bled, | |
| Shall wash the register of my foul sin, | |
| And thence blot out the vile memoriall:— | 10 |
| Then let thy blessed Angell enter in | |
| My temple purged, and that historiall | |
| Of my sinnes numberlesse in deepe seas cast; | |
| So shall I be new borne and sav’d at last. | | | | |
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