Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Parthenophil and ParthenopheMadrigal 14. Ah, ten times worse tormented than before!
Barnabe Barnes (1569?1609)A
Ten times more pity shouldst thou take of me!
I have endured; then, Sweet! restore
That pleasure, which procured this pain!
Thou scorn’st my lines! (a Saint, which make of thee!)
Where true desires of thine hard heart complain,
There thou, ’bove S
’Bove L
And now, proud, thinks me graced,
That am to thee (though merciless!) enthralled.