A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

This partisanship is sufficient to account for the abuse of NaBarnabe Barnes who accused him apparently on no proof at all of stealing a nobleman's chain at Windsor and of other things. 1958 3. Parthenophil abounds in passages of great freshness and beauty although its elaborate conceits are sometimes over-ingenious and strained.

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. 1571—1609) was an English poet.