| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XV. Where, or to whom, then, shall I make complaint? | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | WHERE, or to whom, then, shall I make complaint? | |
| By guileful wiles, of mine heart’s guide deprived! | |
| With right’s injustice, and unkind constraint: | |
| Barred from her loves, which my deserts achieved! | |
| This though thou sought to choke, far more revived | 5 |
| Within mine restless heart, left almost senseless. | |
| O, make exchange! Surrender thine, for mine! | |
| Lest that my body, void of guide, be fenceless. | |
| So shall thou pawn to me, sign for a sign | |
| Of thy sweet conscience; when I shall resign | 10 |
| Thy love’s large Charter, and thy Bonds again. | |
| O, but I fear mine hopes be void, or menceless! | |
| No course is left, which might thy loves attain, | |
| Whether with sighs I sue, or tears complain! | | | | |
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