Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Parthenophil and ParthenopheFront Matter
Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609)Parthenophil and Parthenophe.
Sonnets, Madrigals, Elegies, and Odes.
To the right noble and virtuous gentleman,
M. WILLIAM PERCY, Esq., his dearest friend.
Sonnets, Madrigals, Elegies, and Odes.
To the right noble and virtuous gentleman,
M. W
[The lower part of the Title-page is torn away in the only copy at present known (in the library of the Duke of Devonshire); but there is the following entry in the Stationers’ Registers in 1593.
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The Author, though at the first unknown (yet [has been] enforced to accord to certain of his friends’ importunacy herein, to publish them, by their means, and for their sakes) [is] unwilling, as it seemeth, to acknowledge them, for their levity; till he have redeemed them, with some more excellent work hereafter. Till when, he requesteth your favourable and indifferent censures of these his over-youthful Poems; submitting them to your friendly patronages.
Farewell! thisof May, 1593.