| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet VII. Her love to me, She forthwith did impawn | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | HER love to me, She forthwith did impawn, | |
| And was content to set at liberty | |
| My trembling Heart; which straight began to fawn | |
| Upon his Mistress’ kindly courtesy. | |
| Not many days were past, when (like a wanton) | 5 |
| He secretly did practise to depart; | |
| And to PARTHENOPHE did send a canton, | |
| Where, with sighs’ accents, he did loves impart. | |
| And for because She deigned him that great sign | |
| Of gentle favours, in his kind release; | 10 |
| He did conclude, all duty to resign | |
| To fair PARTHENOPHE: which doth increase | |
| These woes, nor shall my restless Muses cease! | |
| For by her, of mine heart am I deprived; | |
| And by her, my first sorrows’ heat revived. | 15 | | | |
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