| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Sonnet XXXIII | | V. Barnaby Barnes |
| | | THRICE puissant generall of true Christian hoast! | |
| Whose voyce itselfe is dreadfull thunder-cracke, | |
| Whose wrath doth neither fire nor lightning lacke, | |
| Whose stormie frowne makes tremble everie coast, | |
| Chasing thy fearefull foes from post to post; | 5 |
| Whose hands force can all the world’s forces sacke, | |
| Who turnes his foeman’s colours into blacke; | |
| Whose murthering thunderboults for arrowes bee, | |
| Whose sworde victorious, trenchant, double-edged, | |
| His holy Scripture is; whose foes convert | 10 |
| The point to their owne brest, and have alledg’d | |
| Vaine arguments, thy deare saints to subvert: | |
| As thou, deare God! art Judge; so give thy doome, | |
| In justice, to subvert ambitious Rome. | | | | |
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