| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Sonnet LII | | V. Barnaby Barnes |
| | | FULL of celestiall syrropes, full of sweete | |
| Are all thy preceptes, full of happines, | |
| Full of all comforte, full of blessednes, | |
| Those salutations which our Saviour greete! | |
| O let us then contende, since it is meete, | 5 |
| To keepe those lawes with upright holinesse: | |
| O let us use and have in readinesse | |
| Those sweete orations, prostrate at his feete: | |
| Begging, imploring, weeping, smiling, kneeling, | |
| For succour, grace, and for our sinnes humbly; | 10 |
| Repentance, mercie signes, in our heart feeling, | |
| Repent, and praise our God,—for it is comely. | |
| O nothing doth a Christian more beseeme, | |
| Than Him to prayse that did his soule redeeme! | | | | |
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