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The text of this section quotes lines from Barnaby Barnfield's sonnets, comparing them to Shakespeare's Sonnet LIII. Barnfield's sonnets mention classical figures like Ganymede and Adonis, contrasting their beauty with that of his "fair friend." The author suggests that Barnfield's descriptions of Adonis are "crude echoes" of Shakespeare's portrayal in Sonnet LIII, where the counterfeit is poorly imitated after the subject.
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- # SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE
In two sonnets (published in Jan. 1595) Barnfield depreciated the beauty of heroes of antiquity compared with his own fair friend. *Sonnet* XII begins:—
Some talke of Ganymede th’ Idalian Boy
And some of faire *Adonis* make their boast,
Some talk of him [i.e. Castor], whom louely *Laeda* [i.e. mother of Helen] lost . . .
*Sonnet* XVII opens:—
Cherry-lipt *Adonis* in his snowie shape,
Might not compare with his pure Iuorie white.
Both seem crude echoes of Shakespeare’s sonnet LIII:—
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you.
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