Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Parthenophil and ParthenopheSonnet XIX. Imperious Jove, with sweet lipped Mercury
Barnabe Barnes (1569?1609)I
Learned M
Vein-swelling B
With light-foot P
These have, with divers deities beside,
Borrowed the shapes of many a mortal creature;
But fair P
Of each of these, sweet Queen of lovely feature!
As though she were, with pearl of all their skill,
By heaven’s chief nature garnished. She knits
In wrath, J
She matcheth M
In goldy locks, bright T
In her hands conduit pipes; sweet V
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