Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Barnabe Barnes, 1593: Sonnet XLIIII
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 XLIIII
Oh dart and thunder whose fierce violence
Surmounting Rhetorickes dart and thunder boultes
Can neuer be se•… out in eloquence,
Whose might all mettles masse a sonder moultes:
Where be they famous Prophetes of ould Greece?
Those anchiant Romaine Poetes of acompt,
Musaeus which went for the Golden Fleece
With Iason, and did Heroes loues recompt
And thou sweet Naso with thy golden vearse
Whose louely spirite rauish't Caesars daughter,
And that sweet Tuskane Petrarke which did pearse
His Laura with loue Sonnets when he saught her:
Where be these all? that all these might hauē taught her
That sainctes deuine are knowne sainctes by their mercy,
And sainctlike bewtie should not rage with pearse eye.
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