| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 21. When this celestial goddess had indued | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | WHEN this celestial goddess had indued | |
| Her eyes with spheric revolution, | |
| VESTA, with the next gift ensued, | |
| And lent to Nature that twice sacred fire, | |
| To which, once, JAPHET’s offspring did aspire. | 5 |
| Which made a dissolution | |
| Of a strange ore, engendered by the sun, | |
| In grace, and worth more pure than gold, | |
| Which (’gainst the Cyprian triumphs should be done) | |
| Gilded those wheels, which CUPID’s chariot rolled. | 10 | | | |
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