Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Barnabe Barnes, 1593: Sonnet VI
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 VI
Him when I caught, what chaines had I prouided,
What fetters had I fram'd, what lockes of reason:
What keyes of continence, had I deuised,
Impatient of the breach, gainst any treason.
But faire Parthenophe, did vrge me still,
To liberall pardon, for his former fault:
Which out alas, preuailed with my will,
Yet mou'd I bondes, least he should make default:
Which willingly shee seem'd to vndertake,
And saide, as I am virgine, I will bee
His bale, for this offence, & if he make
An other such vagare, take of mee
A pawne, for more assurance vnto thee.
Your Loue to me quoth I, your pawne shall make,
So that for his default, I forfeit take.
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