| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Sonnet LI | | V. Barnaby Barnes |
| | | BREAKE thou the jawes of olde Levyathan, | |
| Victorious Conqueror! breake thou the jawes, | |
| Which, full of blasphemie, maligne thy lawes, | |
| Ready to curse, to lie, slaunder, and banne; | |
| Which nothing but abhomination can; | 5 |
| Who, like a rangying lyon, with his pawes | |
| Thy little flocke with daily dread adawes: | |
| Antichrist’s harrould, who with pride beganne | |
| Even into thy triumphant throane to prease, | |
| And therefore his first comfort had forgonne: | 10 |
| The bodie’s ruiner and soule’s disease; | |
| Bawde to that harlot of proude Babilon, | |
| Which mortall man to mortall sinnes inviteth,— | |
| Teare out those fanges with which hee thy flock biteth. | | | | |
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