| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet I. Mistress! Behold, in this true speaking Glass | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | MISTRESS! Behold, in this true speaking Glass, | |
| Thy Beauty’s graces! of all women rarest! | |
| Where thou may’st find how largely they surpass | |
| And stain in glorious loveliness, the fairest. | |
| But read, sweet Mistress! and behold it nearer! | 5 |
| Pond’ring my sorrow’s outrage with some pity. | |
| Then shalt thou find no worldly creature dearer, | |
| Than thou to me, thyself, in each Love Ditty! | |
| But, in this Mirror, equally compare | |
| Thy matchless beauty, with mine endless grief! | 10 |
| There, like thyself none can be found so fair; | |
| Of chiefest pains, there, are my pains the chief. | |
| Betwixt these both, this one doubt shalt thou find! | |
| Whether are, here, extremest, in their kind? | | | | |
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