| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | [Dedicatory Sonnets]
To the most virtuous, learned and beautiful Lady, Mary, Countess of Pembroke | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | PRIDE of our English Ladies! never matched! | |
| Great Favourer of PHŒBUS’ offspring! | |
| In whom, even PHŒBUS is most flourishing! | |
| Muse’s chief comfort! Of the Muses, hatched! | |
| On whom, URANIA hath so long time watched | 5 |
| In Fame’s rich Fort, with crown triumphing | |
| Of laurel, ever green in lusty Spring, | |
| After thy mortal pilgrimage, despatched | |
| Unto those planets, where thou shalt have place | |
| With thy late sainted Brother, to give light! | 10 |
| And with harmonious spheres to turn in race. | |
| Vouchsafe, sweet Lady! with a forehead bright, | |
| To shine on this poor Muse; whose first-born fruit, | |
| That you (of right) would take, she maketh suit! | | | | |
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