| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet IX. So did Parthenophe release mine Heart! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | SO did PARTHENOPHE release mine Heart! | |
| So did She rob me of mine heart’s rich treasure! | |
| Thus shall She be his bail before they part! | |
| Thus in her love She made me such hard measure! | |
| Ay me! nor hope of mutual love by leisure, | 5 |
| Nor any type of my poor Heart’s release | |
| Remains to me. How shall I take the seizure | |
| Of her love’s forfeiture? which took such peace | |
| Combinèd with a former love. Then cease | |
| To vex with sorrows, and thy griefs increase | 10 |
| ’Tis for PARTHENOPHE! thou suffer’st smart. | |
| Wild Nature’s wound ’s not curable by Art. | |
| Then cease, which choking sighs and heart-swoll’n throbs, | |
| To draw thy breath, broke off with sorrow’s sobs! | | | | |
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