{"id":"01KG6S6VRYHM2W6AXHFB15CJHW","cid":"bafkreicx3jizfyfqvmek2wdao6gg3rhy7qr2xorecrycuum3irpir45nxe","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":7381,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.288Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 16","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":7346,"text":"> And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure.\n\nIn Griffin’s printed volumes of 1596 the passage runs thus:—\n\n> But he a wayward boy refusde her offer,\n> And ran away, the beautious Queene neglecting:\n> Showing both folly to abuse her proffer,\n> And all his sex of cowardise detecting.\n> Oh that I had my mistres at that bay,\n> To kisse and clippe me till I ranne away.\n\nIt is clear that Jaggard did not know Griffin’s work as it was printed in Griffin’s published *Fidessa*. Jaggard’s text was probably a trial version, which Griffin distributed among private friends, but finally excluded from his collection when\n\n\nTHE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 29\nhe sent it to press. The three other sonnets on the theme of Venus and Adonis in *The Passionate Pilgrim* have a strong family resemblance to that attributable to Griffin, and may well have been similar experiments of his Muse, which were withheld from the printer and circulated only in private.\n\nGriffin is one of three contemporary poets whom Jaggard may be safely convicted of robbing. He was wise in laying somewhat heavier hands on the work of Richard Barnfield, whose lyric gift was more pleasing than Griffin’s. There is no question that two of Jaggard’s pieces—No. VIII, the sonnet beginning ‘If Musicke and sweet Poetrie agree’, and No. XX, the seven-syllable riming couplets at the extreme end of the volume, beginning ‘As it fell upon a day’—were from Barnfield’s pen. Both were published in 1598 in a poetical tract entitled *Poems: in diuers humours*, which formed the fourth section of a volume bearing the preliminary title, *‘The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, or the Praise of Money, by Richard Barnfield, Graduate in Oxford.’* The whole book was published by William Jaggard’s brother John, at the Hand and Star in Fleet Street, and there is ground for believing that Jaggard, with his brother’s connivance, borrowed in this instance from a printed text.\n\n‘Poems in diuers humours’ was the last of the four parts of the ‘Encomion’ and had, like each of the three preceding parts, a separate title-page. It was prefaced by a dedication in three couplets to the author’s friend ‘Maister Nicholas Blackleech of Grayes Inne’. There the writer described the poems which followed as ‘fruits of unriper years’. Barnfield’s claim to authorship of the ‘Poems in diuers humours’ cannot be justly questioned.\n\nThe opening piece in Barnfield’s tract is headed ‘Sonnet I.\n\nNos. VIII, XVII, and XX: Contributions of Richard Barnfield.\nBarnfield’s *Poems in diuers humours*, 1598.\n\n\n30\nTHE PASSIONATE PILGRIM\n\nNo. VIII. Barnfield's Sonnet to R. L.\n\nTo his friend Maister R. L. in praise of Musique and Poetrie? This is the eighth poem of *The Passionate Pilgrim*. The texts are identical, though in Barnfield's publication capitals are more freely used than in *The Passionate Pilgrim*, while the proper names are in italics and not in roman letters as in the later volume.¹\n\n‘R. L.,’ to whom Barnfield addressed the sonnet, is doubtless Richard Linche, author of a collection of sonnets called *Diella* which appeared in 1596. John Dowland, to whom Barnfield refers in line 5 of his sonnet, was the famous lutenist and musical composer, who had published a year before a valuable volume in folio, called ‘The First Book of Songes, and Ayres of foure partes with Tablature for the Lute’ (printed by Peter Short). The compliment to Spenser in lines 7–8 is repeated in Barnfield’s volume in the next poem but one, a piece which is entitled ‘A Remembraunce of some English Poets’ and opens with the line: ‘Live Spenser ever in thy Fairy Queene.’ Already, in 1595, Barnfield had proved his admiration for Spenser by publishing a poem in the Spenserian stanza, called ‘Cynthia’, which he described in his preface as ‘the first imitation of the verse of that excellent Poet Maister’\n","title":"Chunk 16"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4FQ9B05TDSVW2G3VD6WR","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6VRY9CD6WYJAWJDX2PD2","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S6VS24AXM2CJ66K5AFSBP","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:51.998Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:57.188Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}