Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Parthenophil and ParthenopheSonnet XV. Where, or to whom, then, shall I make complaint?
Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609)W
By guileful wiles, of mine heart’s guide deprived!
With right’s injustice, and unkind constraint:
Barred from her loves, which my deserts achieved!
This though thou sought to choke, far more revived
Within mine restless heart, left almost senseless.
O, make exchange! Surrender thine, for mine!
Lest that my body, void of guide, be fenceless.
So shall thou pawn to me, sign for a sign
Of thy sweet conscience; when I shall resign
Thy love’s large Charter, and thy Bonds again.
O, but I fear mine hopes be void, or menceless!
No course is left, which might thy loves attain,
Whether with sighs I sue, or tears complain!