| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XIX. Imperious Jove, with sweet lipped Mercury | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | IMPERIOUS JOVE, with sweet lipped MERCURY; | |
| Learned MINERVA; PHŒBUS, God of Light; | |
| Vein-swelling BACCHUS; VENUS, Queen of Beauty; | |
| With light-foot PHŒBE, Lamp of silent Night: | |
| These have, with divers deities beside, | 5 |
| Borrowed the shapes of many a mortal creature; | |
| But fair PARTHENOPHE, graced with the pride | |
| Of each of these, sweet Queen of lovely feature! | |
| As though she were, with pearl of all their skill, | |
| By heaven’s chief nature garnished. She knits | 10 |
| In wrath, JOVE’s forehead; with sweet noting quill, | |
| She matcheth MERCURY, MINERVA’s wits; | |
| In goldy locks, bright TITAN; BACCHUS sits | |
| In her hands conduit pipes; sweet VENUS’ face; | |
| DIANA’s leg, the Tyrian buskins grace. | 15 | | | |
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