| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXXXIX. What be those hairs dyed like the marigold? | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | WHAT be those hairs dyed like the marigold? | |
ECHO, Gold! | |
| What is that brow, whose frown make any moan? | |
ECHO, Anemone! | |
| What were her eyes, when the great lords controlled? | 5 |
ECHO, Rolled! | |
| What be they, when from them, be loves thrown? | |
ECHO, LOVE’s throne! | |
| What were her cheeks (when blushes rose) like? | |
ECHO, Rose-like! | 10 |
| What are those lips, which ’bove pearls’ rew be? | |
ECHO, Ruby! | |
| Her ivory shoulders, what be those like? | |
ECHO, Those like! | |
| What saints are like her? speak, if you be! | 15 |
ECHO, Few be! | |
| Thou dwell’st in rocks, hart-like! somewhat then? | |
ECHO, What then? | |
| And rocks dwell in her heart! is ’tis true? | |
ECHO, ’Tis true! | 20 |
| Whom she loves best? know this, cannot men! | |
ECHO, Not men! | |
| Pass him, she loathes! Then I dismiss you! | |
ECHO, Miss you! | |
| What sex to whom, men sue so vain much? | 25 |
ECHO, Vain much! | |
| Furies there fires, and I complain such? | |
ECHO, Plain such! | | | | |
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