| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XX. These Eyes (thy Beauty’s Tenants!) pay due tears | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THESE Eyes (thy Beauty’s Tenants!) pay due tears | |
| For occupation of mine Heart, thy Freehold, | |
| In Tenure of Love’s service! If thou behold | |
| With what exaction, it is held through fears; | |
| And yet thy Rents, extorted daily, bears. | 5 |
| Thou would not, thus, consume my quiet’s gold! | |
| And yet, though covetous thou be, to make | |
| Thy beauty rich, with renting me so roughly, | |
| And at such sums: thou never thought dost take, | |
| But still consumes me! Then, thou dost misguide all! | 10 |
| Spending in sport, for which I wrought so toughly! | |
| When I had felt all torture, and had tried all; | |
| And spent my Stock, through ’strain of thy extortion; | |
| On that, I had but good hopes, for my portion. | | | | |
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