| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XXXVI. And thus continuing with outrageous fire | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | AND thus continuing with outrageous fire, | |
| My sun, proceeding forward (to my sorrow!), | |
| Took up his Court; but willing to retire | |
| Within the Lion’s den, his rage did borrow. | |
| But whiles within that Mansion he remained, | 5 |
| How cruel was PARTHENOPHE to me! | |
| And when of my great sorrows I complained, | |
| She Lion-like, wished “they might tenfold be!” | |
| Then did I rage; and in unkindly Passions, | |
| I rent mine hair, and razed my tender skin; | 10 |
| And raving in such frantic fashions, | |
| That with such cruelty she did begin | |
| To feed the fire which I was burnèd in. | |
| Can woman brook to deal so sore with men? | |
| She, man’s woe! learned it in the Lion’s den! | 15 | | | |
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