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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Parthenophil and Parthenophe

Sonnet XXXII. Sarce twice seven times had Phœbus’ waggon wheel

Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609)

SARCE twice seven times had PHŒBUS’ waggon wheel

Obliquely wandered through the Zodiac’s line,

Since Nature first to OPS did me resign,

When in mine youthful vein, I well could feel

A lustful rage, which, Reason’s chains of steel

(With headstrong force of Lust) did still untwine.

To wanton Fancies I did then incline;

Whilst mine unbridled PHÆTON did reel

With heedless rage, till that his chariot came

To take, in fold, his resting with the Ram.

But bootless, all! For such was his unrest

That, in no limits, he could be contained!

To lawless sports and pleasures, ever prest;

And his swift wheels, with their sweet oil distained!