| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Sonnet XXI | | V. Barnaby Barnes |
| | | SOLE hope and blessing of olde Israel’s line! | |
| Which gave, by promise, to his blessed seede | |
| A land that should all blessings plentie breede, | |
| Rivers of pleasant honnie, milke, and wine; | |
| Whose offspring numberlesse Thou calledst thine; | 5 |
| Whome with thine angels’ manna thou didst feede, | |
| Being before from Pharoe’s bondage freede, | |
| When Moyses first thy statutes did resigne: | |
| Behold, deare God! one, in these daies of grace, | |
| (Since by thy precious bloud thou freede mankinde | 10 |
| By promise,) which a portion and a place | |
| Amongst thy children hopeth for to finde | |
| In gospel’s comfort: through thy bloud’s deare prise | |
| Oh, let him purchase such a Paradise! | | | | |
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