| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XXXVII. But Pity, which sometimes doth lions move | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | BUT Pity, which sometimes doth lions move, | |
| Removed my sun from moody Lion’s cave; | |
| And into Virgo’s bower did next remove | |
| His fiery wheels. But then She answer gave | |
| That “She was all vowed to virginity!” | 5 |
| Yet said, “’Bove all men, She would most affect me!” | |
| Fie, Delian goddess! In thy company | |
| She learned, with honest colour, to neglect me! | |
| And underneath chaste veils of single life, | |
| She shrouds her crafty claws, and lion’s heart! | 10 |
| Which, with my senses, now, do mingle strife | |
| ’Twixt loves and virtues, which provoke my smart. | |
| Yet from these Passions can I never part, | |
| But still I make my suits importunate | |
| To thee! which makes my case unfortunate. | 15 | | | |
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