Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Barnabe Barnes, 1593: Sonnet VII
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 VII
Her Loue to mee shee foorthwith did impawne,
And was content to set at liberty:
My trembling hart, which straight began to fawne,
Vpon his mistrisse kindely curtesy.
Not many dayes were past, when like a wanton,
He secretly did practise to depart,
And to Parthenophe did send a Canton
Where, with sighes accentes, he did loues impart:
And for because she daign'd him that great signe,
Of gentle fauours, in his kinde release:
Hee did conclude all duety to resigne,
To faire Parthenophe which doth encrease
These woes, nor shall my rest-lesse muses cease:
For by her of mine heart am I depriued,
And by her, my first sorrowes heate reuiued.
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