| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Ode 15. Vulcan, in Lemnos Isle | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | VULCAN, in Lemnos Isle, | |
| Did golden shafts compile | |
| For CUPID’s bow. | |
| Then VENUS did, with honey sweet, | |
| To make it please, anoint the pile. | 5 |
| CUPID below | |
| Dipped it in gall, and made it meet | |
| Poor wounded creatures to beguile. | |
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| When MARS returned from war, | |
| Shaking his spear afar; | 10 |
| CUPID beheld! | |
| At him, in jest, MARS shaked his spear! | |
| Which CUPID, with his dart did bar | |
| (Which millions quelled). | |
| Then, MARS desired his dart to bear: | 15 |
| But soon the weight, his force did mar! | |
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| Then MARS subdued, desired | |
| (Since he was with it tired) | |
| CUPID to take it. | |
| “Nay, you shall keep it!” CUPID said; | 20 |
| “For first to feel it you required. | |
| Wound I will make it | |
| As deep as yours! You me did fear; | |
| And for that, you shall be fired!” | | | | |
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