| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Ode 2. Speak, Echo! tell | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | SPEAK, ECHO! tell | |
| With lilies, columbines, and roses, | |
| What their PARTHENOPHE composes? ECHO, Posies! | |
| O sacred smell! | |
| For those, which in her lap she closes, | 5 |
| The gods like well! | |
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| Speak, ECHO! tell | |
| With daffodillies, what she doth plet | |
| Which in such order, she doth set | |
| For LOVE to dwell? | 10 |
| As She should FLORA’s chapel let? ECHO, Chaplet! | |
| This LOVE likes well! | |
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| Speak, ECHO! tell | |
| Why lilies and red roses like her? ECHO, Like her! | |
| No pity with remorse will strike her! | 15 |
| Did Nature well, | |
| Which did, from fairest Graces, pike her | |
| To be mine hell? | |
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| Speak, ECHO! tell | |
| Why columbines she entertains? | 20 |
| Because the proverb “Watchet” feigns, | |
| “True loves like well!” | |
| And do these therefore like her veins? ECHO, Her veins! | |
| There CUPIDS dwell! | |
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| Speak, ECHO, tell | 25 |
| Wherefore her chaplets yellow were like, | |
| When others here, were more her like? ECHO, Hair-like! | |
| Yet, I know well! | |
| Her heart is tiger-like, or bear-like, | |
| To rocks itsell. | 30 | | | |
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