| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 26. I dare not speak of that thrice holy hill | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | I DARE not speak of that thrice holy hill, | |
| Which, spread with silver lilies, lies; | |
| Nor of those violets which void veins full fill, | |
| Nor of that maze on love’s hill-top: | |
| These secrets must not be surveyed with eyes! | 5 |
| No creature may those flowers crop! | |
| Nor bathe in that clear fountain, | |
| Where none but PHŒBE with chaste virgins wash! | |
| In bottom of that sacred mountain— | |
| But, whither, now? Thy verses overlash! | 10 | | | |
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