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Barnabe Barnes Quotes

1560–1609 England

Barnabe Barnes (c. 1571 – 1609) was an English poet. He is known for his Petrarchan love sonnets and for his combative personality, involving feuds with other writers and culminating in an alleged attempted murder.

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To see the rounds and morris dances,
The leaden galliards, for her sake!
To hear diose songs the shepherds make!
One with his hobby-horse still prances,
Whiles some with flowers an highway make.

Parthenophil and Parthenophe (1593)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barnabe Barnes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.