| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XLII. Pass all! Ah, no! No jot will be omitted | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | PASS all! Ah, no! No jot will be omitted, | |
| Now though my sun within the water rest; | |
| Yet doth his scalding fury still infest | |
| Into this sign. While that my PHŒBUS flitted, | |
| Thou moved these streams; whose courses thou committed | 5 |
| To me, thy Water-man bound! and addrest | |
| To pour out endless drops upon that soil | |
| Which withers most, when it is watered best! | |
| Cease, floods! and to your channels, make recoil! | |
| Strange floods, which on my fire burn like oil! | 10 |
| Thus whiles mine endless furies higher ran, | |
| Thou! thou, PARTHENOPHE! my rage begun; | |
| Sending thy beams, to heat my fiery sun: | |
| Thus am I Water-man, and Fire-man! | | | | |
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