| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 6. O why loved I? For love, to purchase hatred! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | O WHY loved I? For love, to purchase hatred! | |
| Or wherefore hates She? but that I should love her! | |
| Why were these cheeks with tears bewatered? | |
| Because my tears might quench those sparks | |
| Which with heat’s pity move her! | 5 |
| Her cloudy frown, with mist her beauty darks, | |
| To make it seem obscurèd at my smiles. | |
| In dark, true diamonds will shine! | |
| Her hate, my love; her heat, my tears beguiles! | |
| Fear makes her doubtful; yet her heart is mine! | 10 | | | |
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