| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 20. My Love, alas, is sick! Fie, envious Sickness! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | MY LOVE, alas, is sick! Fie, envious Sickness! | |
| That, at her breast (where rest all joys and ease), | |
| Thou shouldst take such despite, her to displease, | |
| In whom, all virtue’s health hath quickness! | |
| Thou durst not come in living likeness! | 5 |
| For hadst thou come, thou couldst not her disease! | |
| Her beauty would not let thee press! | |
| Sweet graces, which continually attend her, | |
| At her short breath, breathe short! and sigh so deep! | |
| Which Sickness’s sharp furies might appease: | 10 |
| Both Loves and Graces strive to mend her. | |
| O never let me rest; but sigh and weep! | |
| Never but weep and sigh! “Sick is my Love; | |
| And I love-sick! Yet physic may befriend her! | |
| But what shall my disease remove?” | 15 | | | |
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