| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 10. Thou scaled my fort, blind Captain of Conceit! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | [Cf. Percy’s Coelia, and Diella.]
THOU scaled my fort, blind Captain of Conceit! | |
| But you, sweet Mistress! entered at the breach! | |
| There, you made havoc of my heart! | |
| There, you to triumph, did my tyrant teach! | |
| Beware! He knows to win you by deceit! | 5 |
| Those ivory Walls cannot endure his dart! | |
| That Turret, framed with heaven’s rare art, | |
| Immured with whitest porphyry, and inset | |
| With roses, checking Nature’s pride of ruby! | |
| Those two true diamonds which their Windows fret, | 10 |
| Arched with pure gold, yet mourn in sable shade! | |
| Warn not these, that in danger you be? | |
| Vanquish her, little tyrant! I will true be! | |
| And though She will not yield to me; | |
| Yet none could thrall my heart, but She! | 15 | | | |
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