Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Barnabe Barnes, 1593: Sonnet V
Barnaby Barnes: 1593
Parthenophil means one who loves young women platonically.
Parthenophe was a siren in Homer's "Ulysses".
Barnabe Barnes Parthenophil and Parthenophe (1593): Sonnet V
It chaunced after, that an youthfull squier,
Such as in courting, could the crafty guise,
Beheld light Laya, shee with fresh desier,
Hoping th' atchieuement of some richer prise:
Drew to the Courtier, who with tender kisse,
(As are their guilefull fashions which dissemble.)
First him saluted, then with forged blisse
Of doubtlesse hope, sweete wordes by pause did tremble.
So whiles shee sleightly gloas'd, with her new pray,
Mine hartes eye tending his false mistrisse traine:
Vnyoak't himselfe, & closely scap't away,
And to Parthenophe did poast amaine
For liberall pardon, which she did obtaine:
And iudge (Parthenophe) for thou canst tell,
That his escape from Laya, pleas'd mee well.
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