Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Parthenophil and ParthenopheSonnet V. It chanced, after, that a youthful Squire
Barnabe Barnes (1569?1609)I
Such as, in courting, could the crafty guise,
Beheld light L
Hoping th’achievement of some richer prize,
Drew to the Courtier; who, with tender kiss,
(As are their guileful fashions which dissemble)
First him saluted; then (with forged bliss
Of doubtless hope) sweet words, by pause, did tremble.
So whiles she slightly glosed with her new prey,
My heart’s eye (tending his false mistress’ train)
Unyoked himself, and closely ’scaped away;
And to P
For liberal pardon; which she did obtain.
“And judge! P
That his escape from L