| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Ode 6. O fair sweet glove! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | O FAIR sweet glove! | |
| Divine token | |
| Of her sweet love, | |
| Sweetly broken! | |
| By words, sweet loves She durst not move! | 5 |
| These gifts, her love to me do prove! | |
| Though never spoken. | |
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| On her fair hand, | |
| This glove once was! | |
| None in this land | 10 |
| Did ever ’pass | |
| Her hands’ fair white! Come Loves! here stand! | |
| Let Graces’ with yours, match her hand! | |
| Hide! hide, alas! | |
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| Graces would smile | 15 |
| If you should match! | |
| Hers, yours beguile! | |
| Hers, garlands catch | |
| From all the Nymphs! which blush the while | |
| To see their white outmatched a mile! | 20 |
| Which praise did watch. | |
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| This glove, I kiss! | |
| And, for thy sake, | |
| I will not miss, | |
| But ballads make! | 25 |
| And every shepherd shall know this; | |
| PARTHENOPHIL in such grace is! | |
| Muses, awake! | |
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| For I will sing | |
| Thy matchless praises! | 30 |
| And my pipes bring, | |
| Which floods amazes! | |
| Wild Satyrs, friskins shall outfling! | |
| The rocks shall this day’s glory ring! | |
| Whiles Nymphs bring daisies. | 35 |
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| Some, woodbines bear! | |
| Some, damask roses! | |
| The Muses were | |
| A-binding posies. | |
| My goddess’ glove to herrye here | 40 |
| Great PAN comes in, with flowers sear, | |
| And crowns composes! | |
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| I note this day | |
| Once every year! | |
| An holiday | 45 |
| For Her kept dear! | |
| A hundred Swains, on pipes shall play! | |
| And for the Glove, masque in array | |
| With jolly cheer! | |
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| A Glove of Gold, | 50 |
| I will bring in! | |
| For which Swains bold, | |
| Shall strife begin! | |
| And he, which loves can best unfold; | |
| And hath in Songs, his mind best told; | 55 |
| The Glove shall win! | |
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| Nymphs shall resort! | |
| And they, with flowers, | |
| Shall deck a Fort | |
| For paramours, | 60 |
| Which for this Glove, shall there contend! | |
| Impartial Nymphs shall judgement end! | |
| And in those bowers, | |
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| Pronounce who best | |
| Deserved, of all! | 65 |
| Then by the rest | |
| A Coronal | |
| Of Roses, freshly shall be dresst! | |
| And he, with that rich Glove possesst, | |
| As Principal! | 70 | | | |
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